<p>people hold pencils/pens many different ways. i hold my pencil in sucha way that the area above the tip of the instrument rests on the area right above my nail on my middle finger. anyway when i write for a long time my finger starts to hurt. after many years i now even have a small bump there. it's been there for a long time and itdesnt bother me. my finger just hurts a little after a write a lot.</p>
<p>does anyon else have this experience. i'm starting to wonder whether i'm holding my pens/pencil the right way.</p>
<p>I rest my pencil on my ring finger and have had a bump there since middle school. It's starting to go down because I'm a senior in high school and havnt hand written a paper in a while and stopped taking notes in class a few months ago. I asked my doctor about it a few years ago and he said it was no big deal. Hell, I forgot about it before reading this thread.</p>
<p>I hold it with three fingers on the backside (pointer, middle, ring) and the pinky half-on the point area (the wood part that's exposed, not the point itself). My thumb on the other side is pretty high up.</p>
<p>It's unusual, sort of like a batting stance for a ballplayer. But it works--I write pretty fast, pretty neat, and don't usually suffer comfort problems.</p>
<p>There were so many stupid teachers early on who wanted me to change my grip but I refused, only switching to their methods if they were spying on me. Regular pencil "stance" hurts me and my neatness suffers. Once I got past about third grade they gave up on me.</p>
<p>As a future teacher I vow to never change a child's pencil grip. Or to make someone left handed use their right hand--I'm an ambi and know one other ambi who only got that way because her first school forced her to write with her right hand (she's actually left hand dominant).</p>
<p>my best friend holds her pencil by making a fist around it and holding it perpendicular to the paper. before i got used to it i thought it made her look like a 3 yr old, but her handwriting is much neater than mine so whatevs.</p>
<p>I really don't think there is a "right" way to hold pencils. Maybe some ways are somewhat more advantageous than other ways, but what I've noticed is that people usually get used to a certain way and just sticks with it. Just use whatever feels the best to you and produces the best handwriting. Heck the way I hold my pencil with my left hand is different from the way I hold my pencil with my right hand.</p>
<p>i hold my pencil so that it rests right below the knuckle near the top of my finger. whenever i write essays or take a lot of notes (which i havnt been lately) it gets very red and my finger kind of has an indent. and then later it swells up to a permenent bump. doesnt really bother me anymore but i have realized that its gotten smaller since ive been taking less notes and such</p>
<p>i also hold my forks and spoons differently, and my dad goes crazy over it. i hold them so that my grip is very close to the actual fork/spoon part and apparently youre supposed to hold it close to the top. i think that was is uncomfortable and have been holding it that way for as long as i could remember.</p>
<p>also, my dads a lefty who grew up in brazil in the 50s and his teachers/parents made him do eveyrthing with his right hand becasue the left was "from the devil". he used to get put in detention and my grandparents wouldnt let him eat at the dinner table unless he used his right hand. now he alternates with whatever he feels like using, also came in handy when he broke his arm a couple of years back</p>
<p>i'm really good at calligraphy. i find arabic really easy to write. actually many asian languages seem simple enough to write, at least for me. cursive is also fairly simple.</p>
<p>I hold my pencil with it resting on my middle finger, my index finger on top, and my thumb pushing it towards my middle finger. I have had a callus on my middle finger since at least 1st grade because of it, but it's also how I learned to distinguish my right hand from my left. And apparently, when I write, it looks like I'm writing like a lefty, even though I write with my right hand.</p>
