My handwriting is jank because I hardly ever write anything anymore. Isn’t this the story for like everyone under 35? Is this surprising?
I write like three checks per year. Other than that the only time I put pen to paper is in the lab when I’m scrawling some data on a convenient paper source. And that’s usually numbers and tables.
Nearly everything with letters is typed.
My son is a lefty, but used both hands equally until the very end of kindergarten when he began to favor the left. I tried for a long time to get him to print letters correctly, but he consistently began almost every letter at the bottom going up (almost every block letter starts at the top and goes down), and it looked awful. Imagine pushing a pencil up the paper all the time instead of pulling it downward. Then I had a flash of brilliance… just ignore it until 3rd grade when they teach cursive because all cursive letters start at the bottom. Guess what? It still sucks. And he only uses cursive when it’s absolutely required of him. Many of his numbers and letters closely resemble the Greek alphabet. P’s, b’s, d’s, 6’s and 9’s are all identical except for orientation. I don’t care much, he’ll learn to type soon enough.