Any one else have atrocious handwriting?

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always have had bad writing

i have skanky handwriting.
sorry to all of you that think skanky is a rude word.

I can not write cursive at all and my printing is hardly understandable by even me. Ive even had people refuse to take my checks because they don't believe that my signiture is a real one.

I always get made fun of and told I write like a 3 year old. I had to use a typewriter in school which was a bit of a pain in the ass because it meant i got hurt by other kids more.

but on the bright side it means that I got to use computers form a very early age (I even had a simple 3 line basic program I could run on any Apple II that would take any input and output it to the line printer like a typewriter that i could use if there was no word processing program in that classroom)

edited to add that I can't read cursive writing either. I got so used to roman letters that cursive looks like gibberish to me, and everyones writing is so unique that identifying the letters is really hard.

I can not take notes if my life depends on it because my handwriting is horrible (and slow). I can write neatly, but this takes much more time. I never got dxed and never tried to get dxed. The 1-3 points I often lost in test for 'Ordnung' wouldn't have saved my butt anyways since I never really was in the middle. If something interested me, I aced tests, if it didn't I nearly-flunked it (bad 3s, all forms of 4s). Now I take notes with a laptop (while everyone wanted me to get a really good and expensive computer, I got a Pentium 1-based 'craptop' for free) under FreeDOS.

my handwriting's usually barely legible, except today, when we had a bio exam, which we usually take in another room which is not so cold but they switched us to the main hall. i swear the air condition in there is powerful enough to freeze hell over and i forgot to bring my sweater, so i was freezing, by the end of the paper my fingers were so numb i couldn't feel my pen and man, i really hope the marker can read my answers.

I used all sorts of things from typewriters, to one of the original powerbooks when they were new that the special school district had. I even had this neat little Z80 based system that ran on a couple of C batteries and had a wrod processor built into it, BASIC and a few other things it was very similar to a Tandy Model 100 basicly full laptop keyboard with a 5 line LCD screen and a serial port. There was special software for transferring the file to a macintosh LC in the library and I could then print my text files or transfer themt o HFS or MSDOS floppys I was always carrying around. some people still use tandy Model 100s simply to take notes or write articles for papers
because they are rugged and last for 20 hours on normal cheap batteries you can get anyplace.

I got to learn a lot about computers becuase of my dysgraphia and considering the time line I was in school I got ot use a lot of different kinds early 8 bit microcomputers plus more modern stuff (for the time) and it really helped me learn computers as generic tools and principals I coudl take to any system. instead of just learning one particular type of machine and software.

Love computers, as I can't write to save my life. I'm thinking I might have this writing disorder you're talking about - what are all the symptoms?

Dysgraphia you mean?
As for the symptoms:
Erm.. Bad handwriting?

lol

Yeah, that is very important. It's kinda annoying that I always used various DOSes to take notes with in school.

My handwriting is ok, but it changes every few minutes.

Anyone looking at my work might say it had been passed around in a circle with each person adding a sentence.

Its weird, I don't know if it's anything real, might just be me being weird.

I wouldn't say my handwriting is "atrocious" but more than once, someone commented that my writing looks like a guys it's also pretty big too. When I write in cursive, it's neat and big, but in print, I guess it looks like a "guy's handwriting" but I really don't know...

heehee I googled it (Now that I know the name) , and here's some of the symptoms



1. Students may exhibit strong verbal but particularly poor writing skills .

2. Random (or non-existent) punctuation. Spelling errors (sometimes same word spelled differently); reversals; phonic approximations; syllable omissions; errors in common suffixes. Clumsiness and disordering of syntax; an impression of illiteracy. Misinterpretation of questions and questionnaire items. Disordered numbering and written number reversals.

3. Generally illegible writing (despite appropriate time and attention given the task).

4. Inconsistencies : mixtures of print and cursive, upper and lower case, or irregular sizes, shapes, or slant of letters.

5. Unfinished words or letters, omitted words.


6. Inconsistent position on page with respect to lines and margins and inconsistent spaces between words and letters.


7. Cramped or unusual grip, especially holding the writing instrument very close to the paper, or holding thumb over two fingers and writing from the wrist.

8. Talking to self while writing, or carefully watching the hand that is writing.

9. Slow or labored copying or writing - even if it is neat and legible

My handwriting is somewhat messy, but I cannot write cursave. I really would say that I prefer and do better at expressing myself over a keyboard. As for Voice recongiton, Microsoft is the worst option.

My handwriting's horrible! I have this vivid memory in second grade, where my teacher had me stay in for recess, and write the alphabet "neatly" twenty-five times.

My handwriting's a mess, but I don't get in trouble for it. But my RE teacher commented on it in my exercise book. -_-'

HELL YES I DO! Something to do with the aspergers maybe?