When I was around 3-4, there was a teacher's assistant at the Montessori school I went to that insisted I write with the right hand. Every time I took the pencil to my left hand, she would grab it from me and stick in in the right hand. I never understood why, until I realized she was trying to get me to start on a variation of the Palmer Method.

Almost 25 years later, I'm still writing with my right hand, but do almost everything else (except cutting with scissors, which was also forced on me) with the left.

The Palmer Method is difficult, pompous, superfluous with motion and overall an unpleasant experience to be imposed on under the best of circumstances.

  > Instead of consciously "drawing" letters, you build up and use muscle memory to create letters

You bloody write letters. No one "creates" letters unless it's on stone or wax tablet and no one "draws" it unless it's calligraphy. That's a ridiculous euphemism for forced muscle memory on a medium that requires no such effort to write clearly, efficiently and without pain.

Yes, I'm angry.