The one I struggle with (that is not on the poll) is some of the cursives.
Heh, I thought it was supposed to be counter-clockwise, but you’re right.
I hate cursive and I’m glad they don’t teach it much anymore.
I have always had a problem with country/county - my solution is to always check for an “r” before reading the rest of the sentence, because otherwise I asume it’s country.
That way doesn’t even make sense does it!? Going the other way is going with the flow of the word. I don’t think I was even taught to write it clockwise. I always loved cursive; it’s like art to me. I’m glad they’re getting away from block writing and teaching D’Nealian in Kindergarten at my daughter’s school.
My worst problems were with numbers and both my girls have the same issues with transposing numbers or worse, backwards. To this day I still go slow with 5 or I’ll make them backwards, KNOWING that five is like an S. I may even have to say “five is like an S” before I write it. My oldest was DXed with dyslexia, specifically dyscalculia, when she was in fifth grade.
I checked the “county/country” thing, but honestly, I’m not sure I believe anyone who says they DON’T have this problem. They’re very similar words, and everyone misreads sometimes. For me it happens when I read a sentence too fast without really thinking about it.
My childhood writing issue was that I used to write my uppercase E’s with as many horizontal lines as I wished. They looked like little combs, or stepladders, when I wrote them. But that was before I learned that there was a standard number of lines. Once I’d cottoned on, I never had trouble with it again.
I got the “N” thing backwards and I had some slight dyslexia when writing b’s and d’s, but it never affected my reading at all.
Heh. It makes sense to me, but I’m a left-handed and I often write my letters the opposite direction from everyone else. And I do mean everyone else, even most lefties don’t start their letters from the right and leave space to finish them, either.
I want to say that I didn’t have trouble with this as a child, but awhile ago I found something I wrote when I was probably about four, and I had the diagonal wrong on an N. Ha!
Learning the Cyrillic alphabet (as an adult) really screwed me up. For awhile, I had to think consciously about which way the diagonal should go. I don’t do that anymore, but JUST YESTERDAY I wrote a g when I meant to write d. (Cyrillic g=Latin d) It’s weird - I have always had excellent language skills and never had a lot of trouble with writing, either (I have good handwriting, even), but I have some amount of linguistic blur.