Is it normal for autistics handwriting to look like trash?

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I can only write cursive, which is largely illegible for anybody, except for me. If I write slowly, it is better, but nowhere near neat. It is as if I don't see the line and space before my eyes, don't feel the direction of my hand, my letters are of different size, spaced randomly and out of line. My poor motor skills only add to this.

I have Dysgraphia, so obviously my hand writing majorly sucks. In order to keep my writing neat I write slowly and very small, my handwriting is so small nobody can read it.
But at least it's sort of neat. I also find writing for more than a few minutes very painful.

My handwriting is horrible. I learned cursive in elementary school (we were forced to use it back in the day) and abandoned it by high school. I replaced it with printed letters which quickly became illegible (like my handwriting). I found if I wrote smaller, it was better but soon that also became illegible. I then replaced it with all capitalization (which I do today). The problem is if I write slow enough to look good, my brain goes faster than my hand and I start to write the wrong letters.

So now I type whenever possible...

Most people's handwriting looks like trash. My boss wrote me out a letter, and I couldn't read a thing on it.

No. a lot of people have bad handwriting, but on average people with ASDs have worse handwriting than NTs.

I haven't been able to read all three pages but I have another question about handwriting....

My handwriting isn't usually that bad, but I don't think it has ever been the same for more than a few months... does anyone else have that problem? Throughout the years it has always changed form... sometimes looking similar to some of my school teachers etc coz I was just copying what was written on the board... and because I liked the style, I automatically switched to using it...

It's always bothered me that this instability could become problematic, since I could never prove in a court of law that something I've written is actually mine

My handwriting is so bad that when I got to college, I gave up on it and went back to printing class notes because I could print faster than I could write, not to mention the fact that I could not read my own handwriting. The rest of my family all had beautiful handwriting, especially my dad. I might add that I am 60 years old too, so I grew up in a time when handwriting was routinely used. These days some schools do not even teach it anymore according to an NBC news item a few days ago. It has been so long since I have written in cursive that I can no longer do it at all and even signing my signature is difficult for me to do... and SO sloppy looking.

The only thing I am gratefull for from being in special education was that the teacher was able to help me improve my hand writing ability. It was horrible looking almost moronic looking.

This is me as well. Not only with letters, but with numbers. Combined with my OCD for organization, I used to do my math homework several times because if it didn't look properly neat and organized on the page I would simply lose my mind.

If I don't concentrate and my handwriting is not perfect, I don't let anyone see it. I don't know why. One of my many obsessions.

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AQ 45/50
EQ 12/80
FQ 26/135
SQ 56/80

My handwriting was atrocious until the age of fifteen.

It's not good at all, it's never been good and it will probably never be good.

yup! My teachers gave up on trying to get me to hold my pencil properly... Also, I write really, really hard...

My writing is inconsistent. Sometimes its neat and readable, but other times even I can't read it. A lot of the times in the same sentence.

Same.

Terrible, absolutely terrible. My handwriting is like a chicken got ink on his feet and ran across the paper. lol

My handwriting is very bad, and always has been. Also, to this day I struggle greatly trying to write a lowercase Z or Q, and I have always found it hard to write them, I don't know why.