The hooked/straight thing threw me for a second. I am by no means right-brained. I have the most purely mathematical, non-creative brain of anyone I know. Yet I am left handed and don't write hooked. My dad is both logical and creative and can write either hooked or straight because of the way he was taught. I think I write straight rather than hooked because I hold my pen incorrectly to begin with, and also in elementary school, I hated being the kid who got pencil and ink all over the side of her hand! So I hold my pen between my middle finger and ring finger with my hand below the line I am writing. However, if i were to hold the pen between the two correct fingers (the first finger and middle finger), my hand does naturally hook. This might be the reason for my absurdly poor handwriting skills, and even though I had many, many special handwriting classes in elementary school, they never were able to "correct" me.
- Laura
