Do You Have Bad Handwriting?

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Handwriting/Fine motor coordination in Autistics are long known issues.
Handwriting Problems in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome Authors: Sheila E. Henderson and Dido Green, Institute of Education, University of London

Handwriting Problems Hard to Outgrow With Autism

My handwriting's definitely legible, but it is bad. I compare it to that of a serial killer's because it's drastic and angled. I joked about that on a first date when I had to sign my name for a reservation. She didn't think it was a funny joke...

Yep. Can't even read my own writing back to me sometimes.

I don't ever use cursive (although I managed to pick it up I stopped using it as soon as I could, by grade 4 I was back to only printing).

My handwriting isn't atrocious but it resembles a small child consciously imitating a kindergarten teacher's printing on the board, all except for there's usually þ ð and ø thrown in instead of thes and replacing the vowel in word/bird, etc.

Calligraphy was never my strength. I can focus either on shape of the letters or on the text I write, never on both simultanously - attempts to write neatly end up with the words messed up.
My handwriting is... I experimented with it a bit until I found a way of writing that is both comfortable and decipherable. If more people have to decipher my handwriting, I use upper case.
I developed a special script for mathematical equations, where all symbols need to be unambiguous.

I never get good grades for order and handstyle. Often I can´t read what I wrote myself.

My AS mother had quit using cursive, and I usually print as well. It didn't help that I was skipped over the grade where others had learned cursive. I can do calligraphy and sign-writing reasonably well. When printing or doing any other fine work, I move as little as possible. If I can anchor the heel of my hand and just use my fingers, that is better than trying to position my whole arm. I do marvel at musicians, especially pianists, who can dance with their whole torso, yet still hit the right notes. The dancing seems to be a way to enlist more "automatic" body motions in keeping the beat, evoking moods, etc.

If I write in a hurry, it's impossible for anyone except me to read my handwriting. If I take my time, it's neat. Usually it's somewhere in between.

all too often i can't even read my own handwriting.

I have terrible handwriting. I love to draw though.

My handwriting is probably average. I've been told it's easy to read and pretty neat even though my mother will say it looks "young" for some reason.

attrocious handwriting. Up there with 128 bit encryption as regards decyphering it

From the day I was taught to write I've had textbook perfect printing and a cursive/script that's on par with Thomas Jefferson or anyone else with a quill. You wouldn't think I was a year behind in English for most of my public education. Kind of odd, perhaps, that I became both a draftsman (lettering is important) and a writer with a fascination for languages.