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[Jeebo]

134. I had a mild stroke in 2016.

It affected my right side, and I am right-handed. I can write only by printing, and even then, I get "writer's cramp" just writing out a check. If I continue, my printing gets less and less legible. I can still type just fine, though. My right arm was a piece of rubber for 15 minutes after the stroke, then it started to return to normal. Now, it's perhaps 95 percent, but that lacking five percent makes a noticeable difference. As for reading other people's handwriting, that ability has less to do with literacy than with legibility. When I was an elementary school kid in the late 1950s, we called it not cursive or handwriting but "real writing", as if there's something unreal about printing. I never heard the term "cursive" until years later. I've always called it handwriting.

-- Ron