Has your handwritting always been atrocious?

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yes.. I have dyspraxia

My print and cursive is both shocking.
Thank god for computers and printers.
I get a lot of pain up my arm when I write by hand.

yes

My handwriting in primary school was almost unreadable. Later, in the age of 14 or so, I developed a short time obsession with calligraphy (quite absurd) and I picked up an kind of printed handwriting, which resembles in minuscules on Carolingian Minuscules and in capital letters the printed form and I stayed with this forms ever since. One of the consequences is that my handwriting is rather slow, but has a supreme readability.

I learned at this time typewriting autodidactic (a fast 2 finger system) and wrote almost everything with the typewriter, especially for the school and later college. Since I have a computer at home I write almost everything on the computer and print it.

I have always had bad handwriting---I think it goes along with motor skills issues with those of us that are autistic. I eventually began printing instead. Anymore, I use cursive writing just for signing my name, writing checks, and writing passes for students at the school where I teach. The computer, with its word processing programs, has been a tremendous benefit to me.

Terrible. Its readable, but boy does it hurt the eyes.

Perhaps you you invest into a fountain pen. It is a remarkable difference in the pressure on the paper and the resistance by gliding over the paper. When I was in school the use of ballpoint pens was forbidden. We had to use fountain pens.

An other alternative is a Glass Pen: Those are still made today (more for decoration purposes), but they they still usable for writing and provide a very "light" and "easy" sensation - they glide nearly effortless over the paper.

also the fact that im left handed dosen't help because most ink smuges as I write.

Absolutely crappy handwriting.

Fortunately, the only thing one need to write these days is a signature, and that does not need to be readable, it just needs to be in an identical form so a handwriting expert can validate that you and noone else signed a document.

Mine's strange... With the Roman alphabet, my writing is atrocious, and always has been, but kana/kanji on the other hand (I'm studying Japanese), my handwriting has been compaired to that of a 10yo japanese boy, in other words, perfect form, not allowing it to become sloppy yet.

lol

thanks, you hit thr nail on the head

i figured most of us would be crappy hand writters

that immediately gives you a label of slow in elementary school, and affects everything else

First I thought it was a fun idea to simply write something by hand and scan it in to reply this thread. But knowing myself I wouldnt get myself to do it anyway makes me reply now as you others.
My handwriting is rather neat, I have been asked to write signs and cards and such during my years. I used the cursive way more some years ago but I stopped it as I thought "the font is ugly"....

Perhaps this is same mechanism which worked for me when I played around with calligraphic. Writing a proper italic renaissance letter or a Textura Quadrata is quite different from the writing lessons I had in school and it helped me to find a way of writing which is readable for the rest of the world.

I have this problem too.

I'm left-handed. When combined with the fine concentration and control I need for cursive, cursive hurts my hand, and it's slow. Pretty good, but slow. I print everything except my signature, and my printing is okay. I hate cursive. I normally just type everything.