(Actually not in pain, but I otherwise thought the icon was appropriate.)
Modern pens don't smear as much as even the ballpoints of my childhood, but they do smear. But more to the point, pencils smear like gangbusters, and in the US at least, little kids write with pencils. (Also, since teachers don't know how to teach left-handed kids to write, but they do know that they are supposed to say "your letters need to be angled in this direction," the only way little left-handed kids learn to angle their letters in the way the teachers will like is by hookhanding. I'm not sure if in this day and age teachers care as much about handwriting as they used to, given how irrelevant it is, but certainly for those of us who are adults now.
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Modern pens don't smear as much as even the ballpoints of my childhood, but they do smear. But more to the point, pencils smear like gangbusters, and in the US at least, little kids write with pencils. (Also, since teachers don't know how to teach left-handed kids to write, but they do know that they are supposed to say "your letters need to be angled in this direction," the only way little left-handed kids learn to angle their letters in the way the teachers will like is by hookhanding. I'm not sure if in this day and age teachers care as much about handwriting as they used to, given how irrelevant it is, but certainly for those of us who are adults now.