Is it normal for autistics handwriting to look like trash?

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actually they are very much go hand in hand together. poor handwriting skills is an indication of poor motor skills and more motor skills is linked to autism as well as a number of other developmental disabilities.

My handwriting was worse than most of the kids I went to school with. I was diagnosed with poor hand/eye coordination but the specialists said I would grow out of it. I guess I must have to some extent because my handwriting did get better but when I was in grade school it was much worse than nearly everyone else's .

Does someone have a sample? While my "hand writing" is not beautiful by any means, I don't really know if it's trashy using the metric that most aspies here are using. *I* can read my handwriting...

Hope that helps. Admittedly, I can read my handwriting, and it seems that most people I've dealt with can at least decipher it.

Last edited by Verdandi on 11 Jul 2011, 1:27 am, edited 1 time in total.

I don't have a sample from childhood because I hated my handwriting so much, I threw most of my papers with my bad handwriting away. I don't have a problem with the way my hand writing is now. It's nice and neat. I can write in a straight line without notebook paper, too. When I was a kid and I wrote on paper without lines, the sentence would slant downward from left to right. It looked like a see saw.

Here's my writing and, nope, I've never really practiced for the sake of improvement as I could care less about writing or calligraphy. Neurological type is unknown.

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Btw, I also think writing by hand hurts like none other. But so does a lot of typing, which is why Dragon's Naturally Speaking exists.

Typing started to hurt for me over the past several years - the pain is not dissimilar, but it's nowhere near as consistent or intense.

When I filled out my function report for SSA, my upper body was in pain from just the handwriting - both arms and my chest.

I did practice and try to improve. It did little good. It's kind of funny when people tell me I just need to try harder, because I obviously didn't work hard enough or something and that I should spend all my time on inflicting pain on myself to satisfy someone else's arbitrary standard.

Finding a pattern to the onset and intensity of pain derived from keyboarding use took me many years. I only adequately discerned the root causes in my 3 year of having an RSI.

Basically, it's due to the volume of the amount of keystrokes/clicks and the speed. But, in my case, I find it's far more dependent on the speed. Comparing clicking 1000 times in 10 hours and comparing 1000 times in 250 seconds, the effects of doing it at the rate of 4 clicks per second for the same number of clicks will have a higher intensity and duration, and the pain has a delayed onset, so it takes a full day or two before coming into full force (Due to presumably inflammation.) though the pain might be sharper immediately afterwards. But I have an RSI, so my "computer use" pain seems a little different from most other people when they say their hands cramp from too much use, as it actually causes inflammation in the forearms.

My pain seems to primarily be fibromyalgia, but I wouldn't rule RSI out. My PCP doesn't think so at this point, though.

My handwriting is quite difficult to read. I have very poor motor skills and was further hampered by the fact that I skipped the elementary school grade in which you learn how to write, so I did most of it on my own. The below sample is for an assignment, so I actually tried to write relatively neatly. My lecture notes are uglier. I often get painful fingers if I have to write for long periods. This was especially troubling on my high school exams.

no. I thought about it as I learnt to write and now I have decent handwriting.

My handwriting is disgustingly awful.

I have always had sloppy handwriting. I usually try to print instead because my cursive is hard for others to read. I think it is normal for us with Asperger's to have sloppy handwriting.

Only other person who said he liked my handwriting was, oddly enough, the chairman of the biology department in undergrad. So I guess Dr. Quintans can read it, but no one else can, mostly because it's a weird mix of printing and European cursive with lots of trailing strokes. I've been criticized for being illegible many times and "handwriting" was the most frustrating class in grammar school for me.

Lots of people with AS are often mildly dyspraxic as well, so its's not unusual in my experience. Mine is so bad, I'm no longer allowed to be scribe at trivia nights My mother is nt but her hand writing is bad as well, we think she is also dyspraxic. But normally if someone complains about my handwriting I blame my physician father.

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