Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490)
Before I reached the last sentence, I looked hard at the image and opened it in a new tab, thinking I could read his writing (since I learned high-intermediate Italian). Nope, it's mirrored [1], which may have had to do with his dyslexia.<p>Looking into it briefly, I came across a guy [2] who taught himself to write like Da Vinci (note: full-screen sign-up prompt upon clicking). Skip to to the 6th paragraph starting with "Perhaps...". Being a lefty, I think I'll give mirrored writing a go as well.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing</a><p><a href="http://michaelbalchan.com/davinciwriting/?hvid=3xsKQB" rel="nofollow">http://michaelbalchan.com/davinciwriting/?hvid=3xsKQB</a><p>Edit: from the Wikipedia link above:<p>"Research suggests that the ability to do mirror writing is probably inherited and caused by atypical language organization in the brain. It is not known how many people in the population inherit the ability of mirror writing (an informal Australian newspaper experiment identified 10 true mirror-writers in a readership of 65,000). Half of the children of people with the ability inherit it. A higher proportion of left-handed people are better mirror writers than right-handed people, probably because it's more natural for a left-hander to write backwards."