True story - I have a customer whose husband is a musician who teaches at a local college. They had some kind of audition where the students are tested on their ability. The teacher was sitting outside the room where the students got their rankings (or whatever they're called) and one of the students had to ask the customer's husband to read the results because he (the student) couldn't read cursive. 
On the other side . . . my son taught himself - get this - shorthand. My mom had used it way back in the 1940's and 50's when she worked as a secretary, and I remember her using it to make shopping lists, and, of course, Christmas present lists. She never had to worry about hiding it. She would have been thrilled to see my son learning it (she's gone now). He taught himself from a book he got at the library book sale and used to use it to take notes in graduate school.
I developed my own handwriting as a result of going in the navy. I used cursive before that, but in the navy everyone used all capital block print. So when I got out of the navy I continued, but in time it got "cursivized" into a sort of cursive capital block print.
On the other side . . . my son taught himself - get this - shorthand. My mom had used it way back in the 1940's and 50's when she worked as a secretary, and I remember her using it to make shopping lists, and, of course, Christmas present lists. She never had to worry about hiding it. She would have been thrilled to see my son learning it (she's gone now). He taught himself from a book he got at the library book sale and used to use it to take notes in graduate school.
I developed my own handwriting as a result of going in the navy. I used cursive before that, but in the navy everyone used all capital block print. So when I got out of the navy I continued, but in time it got "cursivized" into a sort of cursive capital block print.
