Just tossing it out there, because I don't know how else to start this, but I have coordination issues that make handwriting difficult, especially with printing and all the lifting and setting down the pen.
For a long time, I just tried to cope with printing, but I wouldn't lift the pen, so it was this indecipherable, joined-up mess. Then, I remembered in college that I'd learned cursive in 3rd Grade.
It took some time to really get the hang of it again, and it's not like I have the nicest cursive, but it's a million times more legible than whatever the monstrosity I used before was.
Writing in cursive also made my printing better. Since I only print for "special occasions" now, I can take my time with it, and I'm not trying to race against the clock. After all, my cursive is much faster than printing could ever be.
And yes, of course my disability is enough that I learned to type before I learned cursive, and I got accommodations in school ensuring that I could type my notes, because handwriting is that hard for me. All the same, typing isn't always an option, so it's nice to have a form of handwriting that doesn't take me forever and is also fairly legible.
I guess this is to say that cursive is a boon to me, and not just in some old-fashioned "back in my day" BS. That doesn't obligate anybody else to adopt it, but it does hurt sometimes when people deride cursive as though it's some horrible waste of the universe just because teachers don't want to teach it anymore.
Also, I do think cursive is pretty, and because I'm obsessed with how writing works (probably because it's been a lifelong issue for me), I really like looking at cursive letterforms and seeing how they must have evolved from various separated hands.
