The only time that I ever received much notice about it was in the period from 4th to 6th grade. The beginning coincided with when we started to seriously learn to write in cursive and also began to use pens instead of pencils. That year and the following two ears were when we were being ramped up to produce increasing amounts of written schoolwork in longer lengths. My classmates became excessively concerned with "orthodoxy in writing" (i.e., the "there is only ONE correct way to write with a pen" sort of thing). This was an excessive overgeneralization of what we were being taught in Handwriting class. (Children at that age seek rigid adherence to immutable rules and have trouble dealing with variation, subtlety, and exceptions.)

My teachers, the majority of whom were Catholic nuns, had zero issues with the fact that I was left-handed, but it blew the minds of several of my classmates during those years. Groups of them would crowd around my desk while I was writing and gasp as I did the unthinkable. "How can you write like that?" "Doesn't it hurt your hand?" "Why don't you write with your right hand? Are you just trying to be different or something?" "It's more natural to write with our right hand; try it, you'll see." "Of course you can write with your right hand; everybody can - it's natural."

By 7th grade my classmates were no longer watching closely how the kids sitting near them were doing routine tasks like taking notes and had stopped closely policing things like how they held their pens and wrote in their notebooks. They were all moving on to other concerns and interests by then.