Oh, I recognize that ‘script!’ Just like my younger brothers when we were kids.

I like that you’re getting sneaky with it. The thing with the comic book lettering or the architectural stuff is that it is all capitals. Is a good start for just getting the shapes down and the basics are of course squares.

My younger brother was an emergency C-section and he came out fully purple as the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and was choking him…

Ended up with impared development due to lack of oxygen and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum - used to be called Aspergers… He would literally sit on a pillow on the floor and rock back and forth for hours and God save you if you touched him. He’d freak out. Too much stimulus. When he was still an infant, folks had to feed him by leaning him back and putting a small throw pillow on his belly and propping his bottle on that.

Touch was too much.

Dad taught him to write with the architectural lettering and he’s now in his late 50’s and has a beautiful script.

It takes time and it’s just a matter of finding something the kid can latch on to and be excited by. Brother loved Star Trek and sci-fi in general so we ran with that.

Part of his adult education classes he was taking a few years ago involved writing a page of whatever he wanted… So he wrote a short science fiction story - as he put it - more of a part of a chapter of a story he’d had in his head… It was quite well written!

I told him he should keep at it once the class was over. Instead he decided to focus on cooking afterwards. Who’da thought?

He’s a fantastic cook, eats better than I do - is all organic and whole foods. So funny how we all turned out.