I hated learning cursive in elementary school, was terrible at it unless writing very slowly, and purged it from my skillset as soon as I was allowed to type as

I hated learning cursive in elementary school, was terrible at it unless writing very slowly, and purged it from my skillset as soon as I was allowed to type assignments. And it wasn’t hard to convince teachers to let me type assignments, because my cursive was a combination of plausible motor control issues and malign intent. Fast forward to college where I took a number of Russian language courses. I had to learn cursive… with Cyrillic script. Reversing my elementary school position, I decided I wanted to be good at cursive in Russian. I never had great motor control, but damned if my cursive writing in Russian wasn’t head and shoulders better than anything I’ve ever written in English! I have lately thought that maybe I should relearn cursive in English. I like being away from screens and my printed handwriting is pretty slow and ugly. Now cursive seems like a way to do work away from the shackles of my laptop.