bizarre backward/mirror writing

[kittyb]

Has anyone experienced this? DS 4 1/2, does a lot of drawing but not keen on writing at all, which is fine because he's only four and a half. But he has started writing his name, but from right to left and with the letters reversed. I havent held it up to a mirror yet but it looks like mirror writing!!! Its quite spooky!!

Is this a normal developmental stage?

CD I was forcefully retrained from left handed to right handed writing in Austria (not Australia ) and that was in the 70's!)

Kittyb... dd started writing letters and numbers aged 3.5/3 and didn't do mirror writing but sort of turned everything by either 90 or 180 degrees clock and counter clockwise :)

Now (4.5y) she can write her name perfectly, but if she runs out of space she just continues above!

so your ds is perfectly normal I'm sure

No it isn't a sign of dyslexia, because my dd did it and she certainly isn't dyslexic - lazy yes - dyslexic no!

DS1 is 6 and lefthanded. He has always naturally wanted to write everything back to front. He can write normally but will automatically go back to mirror writing if he's not concentrating.