just wait and see

Earlier this year all of the residential advisor team had to do a course in mental first aid (Yawn). In this we learned how to react to someone showing signs of mental instability and what steps should be taken to help them. As exciting as this stuff sounds the only thing they can teach is common sense, and sitting through 16 hours of common sense quite hard.

Luckily, the lecturer mentioned she had a patient who would write everything backwards when she was stressed. Naturally I said to myself “I could do that”.

So I spent the rest of the time filling my notepad up with song lyrics written left-handed and backwards (Da Vinci style). But everything I wrote felt uncoordinated, my brain would confuse which direction the pen should go (Trying to write the letters normally). Then about 5 hours in (and 5 full pages) the urge disappeared, the writing still seemed weird because of the weakness of my left hand but what I was writing was flowing.

To this day I practice occasionally (The best time is re-writing textbook pages to memorise the content) and the left-handed weakness is slowly disappearing.

Anyway the weird thing I noticed is both hands have identical handwriting. You hear of people who write with their left hand to obscure their handwriting but the difference is simple neatness.

Anyway this photo shows exactly what I mean. (If you flip the page that backwards writing is on, the writing becomes legible).

Not sure exactly what I expected when I started but this definitely surprised me.