I'm sorry you had to experience that as a child. I know that is not why you told it, for me to be sorry about it, but I still am. Thing is, you were mentally strong enough to eventually come through it and find a mental place to put it so that it did not ruin your entire life. Some would have not been strong enough to do that.
Even if in some twisted way, to begin it, it made sense to the adults, after a few times with no improvement, it seems like they should have seen that it was not helping and stopped and regrouped on what was needed for REAL help.
I have never had a neat writing. It is mostly readable.... mostly... ha ha.... Through the years I have written things in many notebooks or random papers. Sometimes just thoughts that I might want to come back to, contemplate and expand on. Later, some of it I cannot read myself ! Sometimes I figure it out taking it into context of what I have written before or after..... other times.... no idea !
I tend to write fast and mix cursive and print.... what ? That's how it flows out sometimes. I always think my writing messes up a nice greeting card. Now, if others will need to read it, I print in all caps myself. My older brother did the same.
I'm glad you survived it and carried on.
I do the mixed cursive and print thing, add in some capitals and yep, it's all messed up! I sometimes have trouble reading my own writing also. 🤪
I'm all good about the beatings. Wasn't the first or last and I figure life just had to move on and so I moved it on. I'm better for it I guess, the experience has been a teacher, unpleasant though it was. I've been through more unpleasant and difficult things in my life so that helps to put it into perspective. I turned out just as crazy as every other human being so...yep, I'm nothing and no one special.
Thanks for commenting, and yes I didn't write this post for pity or to make people sad. It was just something to say I guess. Maybe to demonstrate that good can come from bad.