Are you consistent in your handwriting?

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30 Nov 2014, 11:52 pm

When you handwrite are you consistent when it comes the use of title caps, upper case, and lower case? Or do you switch back and forth? My handwriting looks something like this:

"Of the estimated 50 million FERAL CATS currently living in the UNITED STATES, 185,000 ARE THought to reside in the CITY OF BALTIMORE. PHOTOgraphers Elizabeth and JASON PUTSCHE have encountered MORE than their fair share.


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30 Nov 2014, 11:57 pm

Mine has turned into such scribbling that sometimes I have a hard time even reading what I have written well enough to know whether I used upper or lower case letters.

I think it is usually consistent though. But I tend to write letters and sometimes words out of order if I don't take it slowly.



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01 Dec 2014, 12:38 am

My capitalization is pretty consistent, but the way I shape the letters and the spacing between each letter is very inconsistent. I can write something 3 times and it would look like 3 different people wrote it.


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01 Dec 2014, 12:51 am

Mine's consistent. It gets sloppier when I'm in a hurry, but always legible, and (almost) always with the caps in the right places. There are a few rules of capitalization about which my opinion of the propriety differs from the majority (which is why I say "almost"). I think the rules have probably changed since I learned them.


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01 Dec 2014, 1:07 am

I copy my handwriting from other people's notes, so sometimes you can look at class's notes and another's and my letters might look completely different (but always sloppy, sigh).

I sometimes mix up 3s and Es or Bs and Ds or even some Russian with English letters, but I don't know if that counts (I'm not dyslexic). I do go from "not-that-sloppy" in the beginning to "is-this-chicken-scratch?" in the end.



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01 Dec 2014, 1:08 am

Mine is consistent. However, during the past week or so I've started to skip letters when I write (not on purpose). I don't know if it's because I'm stressed (sometimes happens when I'm less stressed as well) but it's really freaking annoying.



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01 Dec 2014, 2:10 am

I always punctuate, use the correct grammar and use capital letters correctly when I handwrite. However, I have some coordination difficulties that affect the consistency of my handwriting. I've always been slow with handwriting work etc because it requires a lot of concentration and determination for my handwriting to be legible and to get the movements right.

On good days when my coordination doesn't affect my ability to handwrite as much, I can write more fluidly and easily, and then write in cursive handwriting. But on bad days, when my coordination affects my ability to handwrite a lot, I can't get the movements right and it's extremely difficult just to write a few words, let alone sentences. My handwriting becomes almost illegible and difficult to read, like a little kid has written my work for me.



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01 Dec 2014, 2:30 am

Inconsistent, sometimes I write with capitals sometimes I don't, and it can be difficult to read (even for me). Either way, after I was told my handwriting looked like a 5 year old's handwriting, I decided not to use it even when I write a card (Christmas card for example), I just use capitals. Of course I still write my grocery list, etc, but I am the only one who sees it so it doesn't matter.


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01 Dec 2014, 3:30 am

very inconsistent.
mostly becouse i use small-font caps in place of regular letters in an attempt to keep my handwriting slightly readable.
however, becouse my font-size is also inconsistent, it is nigh inpossible to destinguish between capital and regular letters, it will have to be assumed from the used grammar



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01 Dec 2014, 3:54 am

Consistent, capitalized and in cursive. It's still like I learned it in school (and still as messy), with some fancier capital letters that I copied from a Russian lesson book when I was younger.



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01 Dec 2014, 3:58 am

No, I probably should be a doctor. I write a mismash of cursive and print, very inconsistent and looks like chicken scratch.



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01 Dec 2014, 5:25 am

Mine is consistently awful and looks like I hired a kindergartener to write everything, but I am consistent in regards to capitalization and punctuation, yes.



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01 Dec 2014, 12:09 pm

Mine looks like a guy's handwriting (even though I am a woman) and I switch from cursive to print constantly. I find that no one appreciates handwritten letters or paperwork or anything anymore, so usually I just type everything out.


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01 Dec 2014, 12:49 pm

I have relatively good handwriting. I had it rather good even when I was 7 years old. My sister and brother have worse handwriting than me. Interestingly, I am the most "Aspergian" from the siblings, sister may look for me somewhat "not neurotypical", but brother appears to be "NT". My sister had higher birth weight than me (2650 g vs 2150 g; we both have the same length of the body (53 cm)), she is slightly below 10th centile in the birth weight to length raio, I am quite evidently below 5th centile; brother was probably the heavier at birth, but he had the most ugly handwriting from the siblings :) I have AS diagnosis and may have the highest IQ (at least VIQ) from the siblings. Paradoxical :)



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01 Dec 2014, 1:07 pm

I try to be but I had always struggled with my handwriting. I have a dysgraphia which makes it almost impossible to place down my thoughts of anything when I write or even aticipate correctly on what I have to say.

People had been bashing on my writing for years, saying I am stupid, lazy and simply do not care. I wasn't even diagosed with it properly since its not a recogized condition but it's an actual real thing.

I do actually try my best to place what I can but all it does it make others want to run away and not even bother to speak with my since my typing is so horrible.

Here is a page that this is an actual thing, which actually exist and its a REAL thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

If you simpy bother with looking something up, you can see that this is an actual problem. It's also a form of dyslexia and its the most common form.



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01 Dec 2014, 1:27 pm

Highly inconsistent. I switch between cursive and block letters and my writing is sometimes small and precise and sometimes loose and roughly shaped. People might think that things I have handwritten were written by different people.