We were also graded on handwriting and our ability to “work neatly“ - skills that, even now, I never mastered.

My handwriting, to this day, is still messy and hard to read.

Writing by hand has always been physically painful, and to write legibly, I must write excruciatingly slowly.

My brain is also zippy and fast, with limited working memory, which meant that if I wrote slowly enough for my handwriting to be legible, I would often forget what I was trying to write before I could finish writing down my thoughts.

As an adult, I rarely write by hand, instead opting to type whenever possible because I can type very fast, faster than most people, and fast enough to keep up with the speed of my racing thoughts.