aspies have poor writing skills?

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I've got good grammar/syntax skills, but I've been told that what I write is incomprehensible because I use too many metaphors and too many parentheses. Apparently the links I make between stuff/words in my head and on paper aren't visible to most people. I am left with a very well-written, verbose but ultimately useless piece of mental spaghetti every time I set out to write a short story.

But I still like em, dammit! The public just isn't ready for my works

As for handwriting...well...I wouldn't exactly call it writing because for that you need to be able to produce recognizable letters on paper.

I've been told I write quite well as long as I don't have to hand write anything.

My cursive is one step away from being random squiggly lines and my printing is nearly illegible.

My handwriting is awful. If I need to, I sometimes write in all caps for others to understand.

My ability to write, however, is quite decent. After all, it's what I've done for a living. It's what I enjoy doing and am relatively good at. On the other hand, I've only ever known two girls with Asperger's, and neither of them seemed to write very well, which was odd since one was highly intelligent and had an extensive vocabulary.

I also express myself significantly better in the written word than through interpersonal, verbal communication, by the way.

My handwriting is indeed abysmal, but I can write just fine with a keyboard.

i have the problem for some reason where i have to change my hand writing style every 2 weeks because everytime i start it is very slow and neat and the more i write like i did the more messy each time and so i have to change it regularly, cannot summarise well at all and have also been told i say or write "obvious" things that i do not need to write or explain, i dont really know whats important i guess, so i say it all, so nothings left out : )

I was told my case was from motor dysgraphia, especially as it physically hurts to write things by hand.

Dyspraxia is a motor skills disorder. You need to have significant impairment to actually have it. Many people with Aspergers have poor motor skills but it's not always dyspraxia. Dyspraxia is usually seen as clumsiness, so they would have poor hand writing. But it's both gross and fine motor skills that are affected. I have both issues but I'm not diagnosed. My hand is very shaky when I draw unless I draw very fast.

Dysgraphia is more a hand writing disorder, both are neurological and both are similar to dyslexia. I knew a kid who got in trouble by a teacher for writing his words too close together, then when he tried to fix it he wrote them too far apart.

I'm pretty good at writing once I learn the certain structure. I sometimes put in too many details and am too literal. In this last year I had to learn so much about the proper structure of creative writing.

I write just fine, my issue is and always has been my handwriting. I have terrible terrible handwriting. It's practically illegible. When I was growing up I got bad grades in English all through elementary school based on my handwriting it got to the point where I hated to write anything because I'd just get bad grades on it. School just put such an emphasis on writing so I was placed in lower level English classes for years because of it.