How many people with AS had/have difficulty with handwriting

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I was pretty bad at it. I could do it, but it never looked pretty. Teachers determined that the biggest reason my writing looked so sloppy is that the slant of the letters wasn't consistent at all. Some would slant back, others would be vertical, and others would slant forward.. and this could all be within one word even, not just over a paragraph or page.

Solution: I printed for the most part. I can't even remember the last time I've used cursive writing besides my illegible signature. If I put pen to paper, I always print. Otherwise I type pretty well every bit of written communication that I can.

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I never had any handwriting issues - i could write for hours and hours. Some illiterate woman told me that my handwriting is so neat and my husband said my writing is so nice. I used to write for hours and hours when I was younger.

My handwriting was so illegible that the public school I went to hired an occupational therapist to help me work on it.
She diagnosed me with 'poor fine motor control'.

To this day my handwriting sucks, takes a long time, and hurts my hand if I have to do very much of it.
I used to say that I draw like a drunken 3 year old, but after reading about dysgraphia upon seeing the word on a post here a few months ago, I realized that it describes me almost perfectly.

However, I think that it's more likely a result of my bilateralism (mixed dominance between the right and left sides of my body), than anything else.
To wit, my right arm is dexterous, but my right hand is clumsy, while my left arm is clumsy, but my left hand is dexterous.
The result is that I write with my right hand, with the implement in a death grip while my arm moves to make the letters, but I mostly type with my left hand, with my right hand just used for shift, enter, and backspaces.
I still type more quickly than many people do with both hands, despite this.

I can't exactly touch type, I need to be able to see the keyboard, but I don't hunt and peck, my left hand knows where the keys are relative to each other, but needs the visual reference to start at the right place and to notice mistakes.

Writers cramp. I know that.
Some days my "original" handwriting is small, bouncy, vibrant and rather interesting to look at. Many days it looks like a dead spider .

Yes, when I was very young; I had to be home-schooled for quite some time.

It's improved since then, but still not the best...

Bodyles,

Ja. I think I have cross-dominance issues, too. I write and eat with my left hand, but throw a ball with my right hand and kick a ball with my right foot, while throwing a frisbee with my left hand. For some reason, I want to fire a pistol with my right hand even though my left eye is dominant. I'm all messed up. LOL.

I think I also have that same kind of death grip, though I write with my left hand. I generally hold my arm just about straight out, with the pinky-side of my hand down on the table/paper almost like a fist, with the pen/pencil coming out between my middle and ring fingers and my thumb tucked in creating an even stronger grip. I kind of drag my hand/fist across the paper as I write. I haven't been able to get used to any other way of writing. Needless to say, my handwriting isn't all that great and my wrist starts to hurt pretty soon after starting writing.

I'm the worst at it. I'm also terrible at throwing things.

As soon as they stopped forcing me to use cursive in school I went back to printing, which is still none to good (12?). I honestly don't remember how to do handwriting any more. The summer before I went into high school I learned how to type (and this was back in the days of manual typewriters) because I knew teachers would be prejudice against my poor printing. It worked too.
Some schools are talking about completely eliminating teaching handwriting.

As soon as they stopped forcing me to use cursive in school I went back to printing, which is still none to good (12?). I honestly don't remember how to do handwriting any more. The summer before I went into high school I learned how to type (and this was back in the days of manual typewriters) because I knew teachers would be prejudice against my poor printing. It worked too.
Some schools are talking about completely eliminating teaching handwriting.

Sure.

I remember using one of the plastic slip on polygon things; apparently, gripping the writing tool with your whole hand is the wrong way to do it.

I have good handwriting now.

I have no problems with handwriting, because I am fully capable of using a keyboard and the 10-finger typing system. ^^

No. People always tell me that they like my handwriting. I have no problems forming letters.

I had difficulty forming letters only when writing in cursive.
I started writing in capitals fairly soon and easily. I wrote the alphabet in capitals for the first time when I was 4 and I did it on my own and with nobody's help, and except the B all the letters looked ok.
My real problem with handwriting was putting letters together. I couldn't do that. I could write single letters but had problems putting them together to form words. I didn't in which direction I had to write, I wrote both horizontally and vertically, I couldn't follow the lines on the paper and I left too much or too little space between the single letters or the single words. It couldn't be dyslexia because learning to read was fairly easy for me. I only had problems writing.
I still have some issues like some little troubles following the lines or leaving too much/too little space between words but now it's mostly gone and my handwriting is even understandable enough.
I have problems forming letters that are not spiky, those like B, P, O, G, etc. I became aware of that when I started learning Japanese. Writing katakanas it's easier for me because they're more spiky than hiraganas.