How is your handwriting?

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According to my handwriting, I should be a pharmacist... I don't really have to write all that much ('ceptin notes to clients who aren't at their desks... I have sort of a pared-down style for printing (h's don't have the crosspiece, etc), and my 'sig' is reminescent of Tolkien's (if only I had his literary talents...

Cursive is a problem; it's mainly notes to myself, so it's not much of a problem. You can't tell my 'n's, from my 's's...

Fortunately I learned to touch-type in highs school (I wanted to meet girls, and though I'd be pleasantly outnumbered. I was, but the teacher also liked girls, and didn't like guys (she made it clear enough that I finally caught on... but that's a whole 'nother story.... thank heavens for computers...

I write horribly. I replace letters a lot... like t with k or stuff... It's pretty random

Are you still required to write in cursive in school anymore? I remember in 3rd and 4th grade, they always made us write in cursive, but after that, cursive was never even mentioned. 4 years have gone by since then, and I don't even remember how to write in cursive!

My handwriting has never been terrible. I don't write in cursive anymore, but when I did, it was OK. My manuscript varies considerably, depending on what I'm writing. When filling out official documents, obviously, I try to keep it formulaic and neat. When writing casually, certain letters or words morph into half-cursive loops, odd shapes/sizes, tiny illustrations... almost freeform expression, like the conventions of handwriting have gotten kind of drunk... My signature is doctor-style barely legible, and in some instances, I reduce it to an iconic symbol that I've invented, consisting of my first and last initial.

A curious point to this is that I've never held writing utensils the "RIGHT" way. When I was in grade-school, I had teachers gently correct, then scold, then seek remediation for this behavior. I remember having these plastic finger-placement thingies stuck onto my pencils, so that I had to hold the pencil like it showed me to. Thumb here, index finger here, etc....
I just took them off. It always felt WRONG to write the way that they showed me to. Other kids would puzzle over how on earth I could hold a pencil the way that I did, and mockingly tried to do it themselves. Whatever. It worked for me. Still does

Whether or not any of this has to do with Asperger's.... it might. Who knows??