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From: werme@alliant.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Input device
Message-ID: <397@alliant.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 22:21:00 EST
Article-I.D.: alliant.397
Posted: Mon Jan 26 22:21:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 04:12:53 EST
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Reply-To: werme@alliant.UUCP (Ric Werme)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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In article <1145@rti-sel.UUCP> Random (Randy Buckland) writes:
>	Do people who use a keyboard almost exclusively (like programmers
>	who don't work with paper if they can avoid it) begin to forget
>	who to write with a pencil/pen, or get worse at it?

Well, my handwriting has always been atrocious, either becuse I should
be left handed but ws taught to be righthanded (a longish story) or
because I was a gifted child (turns out poor penmanship is a "symptom" of
giftedness).

I'm 36 and my handwriting has gotten much worse over the last few months
and I'm not real sure why.  The problem is clear - when I write, my
thumb begins to bend and puts way too much pressure on my pencil and the
fingers supporting that.  So much pressure in fact that my thumb joints
can ache afterwards.  My suspicion is either a nerve problem (if I had
time, I'd see my doctor...) or simply that I need some retraining.  Oddly
enough, nothing else seems to be affected.  Typing is no problem,
writing on white boards is no worse than usual, and I haven't noticed any
difficulty while using chopsticks.

I can use chopsticks lefthanded, maybe I should try writing that way.
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