Does your handwriting look childish?

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Today at work, I was asked to sign a "congratulations card" for a workmate. The other staff had also signed the card and written their short messages.

I noticed that nearly everyone had a particular style of handwriting, such as cursive or other nice shaping of the letters.

I wrote as neatly as I could, but I felt my handwriting looked childish because I form my letters in perfect circles like I did in grade school, the circle with a stick for a 'd' for example. There was no style, no flourish to my text.

I'm also left handed which doesn't help.

Have you ever tried to improve your handwriting? Can it be improved?

My handwriting looks childish too. I don't know if it can be improved because I never tried to improve it.

My handwrighting is equal to my times of first grade

My friend's (he is AS too) is v childish but mine is a scrawl. I'm left handed too.

Yes,no style,no flow,almost unreadable.
As handwriting goes i was considered almost ret*d but since i aced any other test efforts were made to find out what the hell is wrong with me and i was sent to an expert that was suppose to teach me how to write but it didn't help,
It is strange because i can draw and paint really good so it's not hand - eye coordination problem,
It may have something to do with language because i rarely talk and lot's of my autistic traits have to do something with language ,letters,sounds and such.

when i was a little boy i wrote like a little girl. now that i am a big old boy i can only block print sloppily and arduously.

My handwriting is crappy, I use a laptop in class instead of manually writing.

Pretty much ditto for me and Sister 1 and my father and #1 son.

But others are beautifully formed.

@ asp-z, my friend used to do that, but he had an alphasmart thingy.

My hand writing is childish and when I compare them to my peers' handwriting it looks like there's a big age gap between the two writers.

I had an AlphaSmart, but they were always going wrong, but I used it a lot in class and it was helping me, so they got me a laptop instead

I was kind of envious of the alphasmart users at school, it gets written work done much quicker.
Me and my friend used to type little messages to eachother using his alphasmart and pass it to each other, or song lyrics and in-jokes and stuff.

I'm another left-hander, if I don't write in printed capitals my handwriting is a completely illegible scrawled mess (even to me lol).

Yeah I did the same, and we wrote all the messages in l33t 5p34|< so teachers had a hard time reading them

My writing hasn't progressed passed Pre-School level.

The main thing I've noticed is that I tend to press far, far harder than most people when I'm using a pen or pencil. I've heard it's a fine-motor thing.
When I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with neat handwriting and would spend hours writing something that took most kids maybe half an hour. I would deliberately form every letter as if it were typeset, with corners pointy and lines straight. (I hated curved letters because they were harder to get right.) Obviously, that couldn't stick when I started to have to do note-taking, so I developed a weird, hybrid style of writing that's sort of like printing, but with joined letters (I actually got marked down for it once in high school, because the teacher said it "wasn't printing, like the assignment required"). Still press much too hard, though.
Perhaps it's all a fine-motor thing?

I have given up on cursive writing. I am also left handed. I press the pen too hard against the paper and my hand cramps up after too much writing. I can just barely read my own printing.

While I'm not a particularly good typist; I frequently have to back up and correct mis-typed words, I can type much faster than I can write and it has the added benefit that I can actually read what I've written. I now use an iPad for note taking in meetings at work which means I don't have to spend an hour translating what I wrote into something I can read later on.

I am also poor at drawing, but I think this has more to do with my impatience than hand-eye coordination.