Any one else have atrocious handwriting?

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oh boy, do i know the feeling. my handwriting looks like something a 5 year old could have scribbled down. i long for the day all education is done electronically.

My handwriting is legible, but I hate it anyway, so I prefer to write on the computer.

my handwriting is just awkward and almost girly, it sucks. i could never control any sort of fine tool like a pen or pencil the way i truly wanted to.

We should trade... I have very vivid memories of many of my middle school teachers holding up a notebook that I'd lost and saying:

Teacher: Is this anyone's notebook? *opens notebook, flips through* Looks like a boy's handwriting...
Me: Ummm... that's mine.... my name is on the cover...

That was always embarassing... Also, more recently, in Chem class the person in front of me who I sort-of know but who I am on friendly terms with was watching me write and asked me 'If that was really my handwriting?'
Yep... It really is... Shocking, I know.

I kind of laugh about it now though.

Like my personality, ambiguous a prefers a lot of room to write on. At my hosting job, at least its fairly legible.

I've always been the worst writer in terms of neatness that I know. However I can write quicker and have a larger vocabulary than most people I know.

I still remember in primary school the teachers getting very angry at me for not understanding cursive writing, and I still can't do it, however I can type faster than most secretaries I've met.

Isn't it funny how specialisation works?

Erm... I kinda think it is wierd that people with ASD's can even get dx'd with dysgraphia as all the symptoms are listed under dyspraxia... which many of us have tendencies of

What you typed is pretty much how writing is for me. Often times I'm the only one that can clearly read my handwriting, and sometimes even I can't read it!

I have Dysgraphia. I wasn't diagnosed untill after highschool - but I know in university - my marks went up by an average of 30% on multiple choice questions when I stopped trying to fill in the little circle on the answer sheet and started just drawing a big circle around the correct answer on the question sheet. I failed several exams that I recieved excellent marks on when I typed out the same answers.

My university has a Disability office who I see every semester to confirm that I'm still disabled (stupidest meetings ever) - they then speak to my lecturers/tutors and advise them that I'll have a laptop for all my classes, and that any assessment will need to typed or transcribed if it requires more then rough squiggles to denote my answers.

The only 'treatment' I've ever had suggested for Dysgraphia was 'learn to type'. I carry a laptop everywhere when I have classes.

My hand writing is bad because I have a tremor in my hands. I've been getting supprot because of it. My science teacher suggested that I have a laptop to type my work on.

wow this thread is so me. my writing is completely illegible. When i go back to read over my notes i don't have a clue what i had written, People in my classes have all given up trying to borrow my notes. (but thats probably also because i've developed a weird shorthand when i take notes that only i understand)

Now my writing is legible (but sometimes not), but when I read diaries I've written when I was grade 4 or around that time, it sometimes happens that I can't even comprehend my own writing. It is atrocious compared to girls' standard, but I'm trying to consider it as unique handwriting. Besides, I've found another girl with bad handwriting, just bad as me (but she is skilled at drawing, while I'm not) so I don't feel that lonely about having messy writing.

I have been told by my friends that my handwriting looks like a ten year old Indian boy trying to write in English. I've had teachers who look at my papers when I forgot to put my name on it and say that it was probaly a boy's.

I can't even read my own handwriting sometimes, and it is impossible to read my signature.

Has anyone used speech recognition technology to help them with their writing?

Ariane

No clue. I do know that my handwriting is worse than my 6 yr old little sister's. It can be read by other people, if they take the time to decipher it, but most of the time I have to read it twice to know what it says. No one wants to try and copy what I've written in a hurry.