Handwriting anyone? Inconsistent or just plain bad?

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My handwriting now that I am in college is exactly the same as it was in Kindergarten (I know for a fact, I saw some old stuff I wrote around then) and there are plenty of times when I am studying and I have to say "WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY!? I CAN'T READ THIS!"

My handwriting is terrible. Very hard to read, it's so small and always in cursive script.
I write neater in Japanese!!

Sometimes my handwriting is pretty neat, but other times its overly large and all the letters/words are linked in a single line (even though I'm not trying to write in cursive. I can't write in cursive well at all, but sometimes when I print my letters I forget to lift the pencil from the paper and it all connects. Sometimes I'll write in all capital letters....

It's pretty inconsistent to be honest.

I only am grateful for two things for my time spent in special education

1) Speech therapy

2) I had a teacher who made me work on my hand writing until it became normal looking. For that I am forever grateful.

I'm left handed so that has had some obvious pitfalls along the way, but I never developed that scary bent wrist way of writing, I just slant the paper.

Just to echo some of the people above I was a bit startled by the OP and taken aback. My handwriting is very inconsistent as well. I also have the tendency to write capitals instead of lower-case, because it is easier sometimes, as is writing backwards. My handwriting when rushed is a mixture of print and cursive. My hands get very tired after long periods of writing, so I prefer typing. It is also harder for me to get all my thoughts out as fast as they come while writing because every word feels like I must etch it onto the paper, laborious.

I do have excellent penmanship depending on the day, kinda a cyclical thing, while not stress/anxious. However, my signature is never the same. Writing can be laborious or very meditative, stressing out to write as fast as possible or zoning out, enjoying what I'm doing. I like writing well, so it's troublesome. Often when I took notes for myself I could not read them afterwards because of the inconsistency/sloppiness and tangential nature of what I'd write down, not always pertinent to the gestalt meanings necessary for studying.

My handwriting depends on my mood or how much of a rush I'm in. I vary between scripts indiscriminately if I'm just writing generally or dictating:



If I'm copying something out, then I will write with cursive script:



Sometimes I invent my own alphabet and use that instead:



Most skills, including handwriting, can be improved with practice (though there's not much point, unless it interests you). Even NTs can have illegible chicken scratch.

Last edited by sfreyj on 10 Mar 2012, 5:57 am, edited 1 time in total.

You mean like shorthand? I can't do that, but I know about it.

No, it's just English in invented letters.

My handwriting sucks. At best maybe mediocre lol.

People tell me my writing is horrible. Sometimes even I have trouble reading it. It's just so rushed.

I've always been picked on for bad handwriting haha, it gets better or worse depending on my mental clarity at the time. And also speed but that isnt as much of a difference.

No reverse letters here though..

I bought an old typewriter to use when I want a "written feel" to a document but don't want them to confuse my writing. It works well!

NVLD Adults/Kids have poor handwriting in general but there are exceptions. I'm not one of them I'm afraid. If I write slowly my handwriting is legible but childish.

I wonder if the crappy writing is consistent (mostly) across the spectrum, or just an Asperger's thing?
Does anyone know?

Sincerely,
Matthew

Last I looked this up on wiki, they listed autism in that "overlap"....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

My handwriting is just terrible.