Asperger's and scruffy hand writing?

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I am a lefty, so writing/printing are always awkward for me, but I am able to write and print legibly, except when the ink or pencil smears from my left hand going over it while writing. Many years ago I took a good look at my writing and printing, and came up with a few tweaks to make it a little better, but I really don't care for writing, and prefer typing. Unfortunately, I have minor hand motor control issues, so even after decades of using the key board, I am still a slow typist. It's still faster and neater than handwriting though, so I will keep using it. I don't mind writing reminder notes to myself by hand, though, so I like to keep plenty of Post-It notepads around.

My hand writing was horrible, after I learned how write. It can be good now,

I forced a change in my handwriting aged 16 as my old, graffiti-like block style wasn't fast enough for exams. I wanted my new hand to be faster, but most importantly attractive and easy to make look attractive. I get complimented on my handwriting more than anything else combined but I still think it looks inconsistent up close.

In school, my handwriting was so bad that I had be put away to a separate table in order to work on those handwriting helping workbooks. It was just me and another boy, but luckily, I became best friends with him after we learned of our hardships

I've never learned how to write in cursive or how to print properly, despite efforts by my elementary teachers to try and teach me how. I just have a somewhat neat, readable form of chicken scratch, and that's what I get by with. I much prefer typing documents to writing them with a pen and paper, however.

never could write worth scratch. even my printing is haphazard. I only scribble notes to myself in my own homemade shorthand.

I'm right-handed. My handwriting is barely legible at best. I don't write in cursive.

I am very sensitive to my poor writing, as i do not think it's so bad but I often get people asking me "what does this say, what's this number?" etc. I work at a takeout stand and take orders and write in short form all day (like cheeseburger = cb and an order meant to be ready at 5pm looked like SPM to my boss, she said, does this mean Salt Pepper Mustard?)
Anyway sometimes I think people are asking questions like this on purpose to be rude because they want to make me feel bad for having bad printing (I do not write in cursive except to sign my name which takes forever). The other day my boss was kind enough to assure me that she really thought the 5 was an S and she was just trying to find out what it meant. Not that she is always so kind.

It's interesting that many people mentioned getting hand cramps, do some people not get hand cramps for wrinting/printing by hand? I always assumed everyone did, I find printing for more than 5-10 minutes at a time very painful and I have to use the computer for all my writing as much as possible.

Someone else mentioned leonardo Da Vinci's signature, and I was thinking about him while reading about the leftie's on here having problems with writing. Leonardo da vinci was left handed and wrote in mirror writing from the right side of the page to the left. I'm not sure if he revered the letters themselves or just wrote the order of the letters in the opposite direction.

no matter how hard I tried or still try. Good handwriting for me is one of those things like forward somersaults - no matter how hard I tried - no matter how much I wanted to - I just couldn't do it - not as a child - not as an adult. I guess I'm just not wired for it.

this is an example of my hand writing.
https://imageshack.com/i/f7443gj
yeah. just stuff uttered by a very small player.

If bad handwriting is a sign of being an aspie...then every doctor I have ever met is on the spectrum...

But when I was being assessed, my handwriting was part of the assessment process - and boy, mine is horrific. Even I can't read it after a day. I always had to type out my notes from lecture when I was in college so that I could study them for finals.

in high school/college my hand printing was at least legible. but it has deteriorated with age. my written signature went from a clumsy but recognizable cursive script, to an abstract scrawl that could've been done by a monkey with a pen.

When I was a kid, my handwriting was terrible to the point where no one could read it.

Now, my handwriting is more legible, but I still get told off for holding a pencil or a pen in an "abnormal way."

right handed. when i'm in class and have to take notes, i make a lot of mistakes, it looks like cursive with all the letters mashed together, my 't' looking like a 'd'. i never learned "real" cursive. my first grade teacher would always nag me to not write sloppy.

I've always had horrible hand writing. Eventually I tried taking class notes in grid paper note books ( like these ) I print two letter in each square and it's become very legible. I also tend to doodle which actually helped me pay attention in class. ( Great TED Talk ) I now use those for all my hand writing. Once in a while you'll see them on sale for $1 each, when that happens I buy out the store.