/lit/ - Literature

>>23134296
I'm not sure where I stand on this honestly.
I was taught "standard" cursive in youth and it seemed stupid to me at the time. Why teach me to write the letters in a laborious, weird way?
As an adult, my writing developed into a kind of semi-cursive anyway, from a natural process of optimization. It resembles standard cursive, but with many differences and still being partially print letters. This hybrid is simply the most efficient way for me to write.
It seems to me that handwriting is personal and unique, and trying to force a standard method is soulless and pointless or even detrimental.
On the other hand, I can see the value in having people being aware it exists. Would my own personal cursive have developed at all, if I had been unaware? Probably, but it also probably would have been illegible to anyone else.
Perhaps it just needs to be taught less rigidly, and maybe they could experiment with the timing to see when the idea best sticks.

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