How is your handwriting?

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My handwriting is so bad a have a laptop for school!

I think it's because dyspraxia is common in Aspies, I'm fairly sure I have it.

My handwriting isn't great, but it's legible. Not my cursive, though. I almost always write in print.

Back in the stone-ages (before computers in school) I took architectural courses which required neat, uniform hand writing. I haven't done anything else since. So my handwriting is fairly neat and universal.

I was told by a more or less recent teacher that my handwriting was awful.

But what does she know?

I write in print, and have so since my early years in school. I learnt how to write in cursive by abandoned it because I simply like print better.

you decide:P

Um.....'cuz she's the teacher- paid to evaluate such things.

How one prints (or writes) is an indication of how they handle everyday things. If one doesn't care if ones' handwriting is legible, clean and easily read by everyone, what else doesn't one care about?

Even when I was in 3rd or fourth grade, if there was a major project that could be typed, I'd type it myself or one of my parents would do it for me. Typing came very easily to me... these days it seems everyone types pretty fast, but back then typing was a much less common skill and I could type fast enough to stand out. Since then, I was able to do more and more schoolwork with computers and typewriters, and these days, with computers so pervasive, the need to handwrite is fairly rare. But its there just enough that having god-awful writing is something of an annoyance and even embarrassing. And I think that so much computer/typewriter hurts in the long run as far as handwriting goes - I figure I would have at least improved a little had I spent more time actually doing it.

I can write fairly neatly, at least printing, if I really slow down and take my time. The problem is, to write neatly my speed is so slow its useless. And I have to slow down even further to get decent looking cursive. At regular writing speeds, my writing degenerates into spaghetti and chicken scratch.

I meant the teacher comment purely to illustrate that she doesn't know me that well, to that extent.

After all, she only read a small fraction of my handwritten work, so she was/is in no position to make that assessment, being a teacher or not. (I'm sick and tired of having to prove that breed wrong nowadays...)

It would definitely have been more accurate to state that I was usually in a hurry to write, being that my thoughts really are faster than my writing. The faster I write, the better I write, and when your priority is getting your thoughts down on a paper and not making them exceptionally legible you won't really care to keep it as close to a computer font as possible.

Just to clear that up.

This is what my writing looks like:




That's about as good as it gets. Sometimes I might be able to write neater, very rare though.
I rather type things anyway.

nice, i never was good at those tiny letters...

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Each letter (excluding the g, p, and y) fit in a single line (college ruled paper). Somehow the scanner didn't pick it up.

Edit: It took me forever to learn how to use college ruled paper. I think I started using it in grade 10.

i have thousands of types of handwriting. my favourite is my backwards fluent mirror-writing from the right hand side of the page to the left. i write differently depending on differing sensory experiences in life at any given time. i'm like a sponge in that way.

My handwriting is the worst I've ever seen being written by someone at my age.

I would let someone switch the positions of the hemispheres of my brain if I could do mirror writing, especially if I could write forward and backward at the same time. It's the coolest thing I've ever heard.

That's a lot like my handwriting too.