I had difficulties reading the frills & flourishes of my elders. I thought a lot had to do with the quills or ink pen nibs. Dad was a printer, fast, neat and, I thought, artistic. Mother used a modified version of the frilly script. I learned the Palmer method, but being a leftie who was being forced to be a rightie, the tilt of my letters, even written with the right hand, still leans toward the left, or if I slant the paper, the letters are upright. Although I have a continuous line style of writing, many of my letters appear to be ptinted. I was once asked for my signature. I noted that was my signature. No, they said, we need a cursive signature. I told them that was my legal signature,, and that was just the way I signed, if they wanted something different, it wouldn't be my legal signature. End of Discussion. They were not happy.