Any one else have atrocious handwriting?

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Yeah, although I can make it readable with enough concentration. It's probably because I don't naturally think about how another person will try to read it. For most of my schoolwork, I use an AlphaSmart or computer; backspace is extremely useful for correcting mistakes.

my handwriting is very poor, so they equipped me with a laptop

Has anyone else here besides me almost skip a grade but wasn't allowed to ONLY because of their handwriting?

Doesn't help that once you've learned to write reasonably well with a pencil you have to start using some of the most horrendous writing instruments ever developed.

The fibre tip pen. Absolute agony to use, as it's tip scratches across the cheap fibrous paper schools use.

The fountain pen. Even more agonising. The cheap fountain pens provided by the school had nasty machined nibs with lots of rough edges that scratched even worse than the fibre tips.


At high school I could finally chose what I used to write (so long as it was ink) so I ended up using good quality rollerballs. Handwriting was still unreadable by anyone, as I'd never learned cursive properly. I lost a couple of excercise books on purpose, rather than have teachers complain constantly about my handwriting, and have my exercise books to use as evidence when they wanted to complain about my work. In sixth form I gave up on cursive, and now my handwriting consists of the minimum number of strokes needed to form each letter. It's very readable, but slow compared to cursive.

A few years ago I took an art foundation course at college, and the art history part consisted of writing a 4000 word essay every week (the usual read the book, write it out crap where somehow you're supposed to learn stuff as it goes from eyes to hand). They wouldn't accept typed work, only hand written. I stopped doing the essays, then stopped going to the art history lectures, then dropped out.


Now when I have to write (something that can't be/isn't worth ^C/^Ving) I use a pencil.

my hand writing is terible, it hasnt improved from about the 2nd grade either i wasnt able to do runing writing and just whent on because everyone else had. when in highschool everyone told me to try harder as it was near illegible, I could see how this was a problem but I was already trying my hardst. to improve my neatness I tried to do art but I only excelled at the theory. at the moment i have adopted some sort of runing writing style which is the only way I can keep up, I kept being told I should be a docter because I write like one.

Mine's quite bad alot of the time but if i concentrate on writing neatly i can, it's hard though, much easier 2 write scruffy
I've always found it easier to write with 3 fingers holding the pen/pencil ,but can write with 2 fingers holding it if i can be bothered 2 make the effort.

yeah! i do!
In words of my literature teacher,my cursive writing is beautiful (I practiced it a lot when I was very little)but my normal or "print" handwritting is very,very poor She (my teacher) has told me that I write like a child

I read that it is pretty typical for people with AS to have poor fine-motor skills....= poor handwriting