How many people with AS had/have difficulty with handwriting

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For those with AS, what was your experience learning handwriting early on (I.e. letter formation etc).

I'd say it was pretty normal for me. It's worse now, especially after my stroke, so I tend to write using capital letters only.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's at age 13, but technically I shouldn't have been under the DSM-IV because of my speech "delay" as a child--though a poster here explains that it was more a severe language disorder/moderate articulation disorder. Nevertheless, I was frequently noted as a child to have poor fine motor control and my handwriting was atrocious and I hated to write, preferring to use the computer instead to type.

When I was little my handwriting was illegible. It still is pretty difficult to read, but I can write neatly if I take the time.

beneficii, Your school must have been ahead of the curve, to give you computer access like that in the late 80's/ early 90's.

I wasn't so lucky, I have worked very hard to improve my handwriting but was scolded through out my education because of it. I also hold my pen resting on my ring finger with my hand curled/balled around it. Apparently that is not the proper way to hold a pen. I'm not even sure if I write with the hand I do because it is natural. I tried to be a leftie but my teachers insisted I use my right.

It was more early to mid-90s. Early on, I had some access, but by the mid-90s I had a fair bit, including a computer at home.

I could never do cursive so I always have printed. To write so others can read takes a little more effort and time.

My normal handwriting could be considered a sort of short hand, which I use when I'll be the only one reading it, otherwise I spend twice the amount of time making letters legible.

I wish my school would have given it's students more computer access in the elementary years. I'm not sure if you attended private or public schools, but the private one I attended always seemed as if it got everyone's leftovers as far as technology was concerned.

I'm glad I learned how to make my handwriting legible, and I suppose typing may have become a crutch. Still, a little jealous!

I didn't have any trouble learning to write but my handwriting was always untidy. Over the years it has deteriorated to the point of being appalling.

I attended only public schools--with the brief exceptions of some private "special" schools for kids with emotional dysfunction. For most of the early to mid-90s I went to the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, for which I was very fortunate because I know that they've long been known as one of the best public school systems in the country. Even in the special ed classrooms I was in, we always had computers, starting with Apple IIe's, graduating to newer Macs by the mid-90s or so.

I used to have trouble with my handwriting when I was younger, but now it's relatively normal.

I find writing by hand very uncomfortable. I also dislike using a typewriter, but I really like writing on a word processor. Writing numbers doesn't bother me much, but I hated writing essays by hand.

Ah yes... The handwrighting was described back to me as total rubbish by a teacher and like a spider has crawled around on the paper by my parents. I had exceptional trouble with cursive and with issues with letter swapping and spelling plus other righting issues with dyslexia made for a tough time in school.

The issues where never picked up in school, but was in college. But by then, college has a policy for everything to be typed, so it wasn't an issue until patterns emerged in typed work. In school, I was palmed off as lazy, yet I couldn't even read my own righting.

In school, I had colour issues needing to right in black fountain pen on pright white paper. I've always had issues with correct grip and had the habit of dropping pens while righting.

Handrighting now though is kept at block capital, but otherwise everything needs typing. Too much righting still is an issue and it's often exhausting, important signatures is sill an issue. In never had the chance to improve it, there's little adult help either without retaking remedial courses.

I hate writing.. mainly because my hand hurts every time I write. And yes I have bad handwriting, it's improved though, almost normal by now. I usually write in a mix or cursive and print.

I had poor handwriting when I was young but today my handwriting has largely improved. I love to write by hand.