Horrible handwriting and signature?

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I was just thinking, haven't computer keyboards assisted with spell checkers been a god send for us aspies.

My handwriting isn't good at all.
But luckily not as bad to the point whered i'd have too much problems with it.
In the past when i went to school some teachers would give me hell for it.
But no matter how hard i tryd it wouldn't get ne better.

Yeah i was born with poor motor skills like most people with AS

Although i should say you can eventually become decent at sports.
But you have to expect to need ALOT of practice to develope those skills and you'l never be really good.
Most fancy tricks require far too good motor skills to do.

Here is a sample of my handwriting with signature.
I have copied from the sporting pages just this day.
Two styles in the old copperplate style and printing.
I think the top one is slower be easier to understand
Pretty pathetic isn't it?

Paul

Someone just posted a picture of a handwriting example. Visual representations are always better, since they can explain much more than words. So, why not?

The above handwriting sample is mine.

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The pic didn't show up in the last one, because it was apparently just a pointer to the actual picture file. This should work, and if not ... then, if you want to see it, right click on the "x" where the picture is supposed to be, click on properties at the bottom of the menu that pops up, and then highlight the file name once the property screen opens.

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I never got a gold star for handwriting. For years I thought it was because when I started school I wrote with either hand and the teachers forced me to use my right hand all the time. I can still write legibly with my left hand but it's slow. I can do caligraphy with my right hand - it is glorious but slow.

I used to joke about my Dad's handwriting - I'd say "I am not a pharmacist" (trained to read doctor's dodgy hand writing). Again I had a plausible but possibly wrong explanation for it. Uni - all those lecture notes - ruins your handwriting. My Dad's Dad's handwriting also attrocious. I suspect that being a Medical Doctor is a very suitable profession for an academically gifted aspie. Amazing how many eccentricities a male Doctor can get away with, especially if they are good in their special field. I also wonder how many psychiatrists and psychologists studied human behaviour because they didn't understand it. I think they might not be strongly "aspie" but many of them have aspie traits, including the poor handwriting.

mine looks like paulsinner's or worse when not using the door closing device to write with(poor UPS man who sees my chicken scratch on the package signing computer thing) that is only time anymore that I do write is when signing for a package on the ups man's computer thing with the stylus,(it would be nice if they changed to all typing since the ups man does that anyway when your done scribbling on the place were you sign!)

My teachers complain about my handwriting all of the time... well... except for my math and science teachers because I don't have to do much writing for those classes. I think that my writing has gotten faster and sloppier although I can still read it easily others sometimes have problems. I really don't care much about my writing, whenever I have a report to do I usually type it out and I am not going into a field that requires really good handwriting(engineering).

The bad handwriting is due to either dyspraxia or dyspraxic traits, all autistics have it nt just ppl wiv AS and nearly all autistics can't write well its just sumthing uv gt 2 get 2 grips wiv, i hav 4 ages and it payed off when i gt my laptop.

I scored in the top couple of percentage points for language skills, but I can't write. I have to print in capital letters.

Dude my handwriting is excellent!

I actually discovered my AS through my handwriting.

I don't really write, but mostly just print. The problem I have is that I often transpose letters, print a reflection of the letter I really want (b/d, p/q, p/b, d/q), have inconsistent capitalization, omit or duplicate entire words, constantly get the verb tenses wrong, etc. The thing is that I *know* what I'm trying to say. I have good spelling and grammar skills. It's just that whatever it is I'm trying to say gets modified when fine motor control gets involved and the stuff that shows up on paper is not what I meant. (I do the same thing on the computer, but there I can fix it and nobody needs to know.)

It was the transposing and reflecting of characters that set me down the path of discovery. I went on the internet and started reading about dyslexia. I knew I wasn't dyslexic, but didn't know of any other disorder that would involve spelling errors. One of the pages on dyslexia had a link to a page about dysgraphia. The dysgraphia page described many of my writing problems, but also mentioned that dysgraphia is commonly comorbid with autism. A few links later and my head was spinning because I'd found a description of AS and it fit so perfectly...

Handwriting is one of the few things I do really well. I was always the kid in class who got assigned to make the posters, and I like to copy out fonts freehand...

My handwriting is terrible also, it very closely resembles the writing of very young children, if not worse. I also tend to write with mostly capital letters, with a mix of small letters. I dont do it on purpose, but thats how it comes out. Most of my writing is very hard to read, even for me. And it hurts my hand to write much anyway.

Cursive isnt much better, if not harder to read. I am also unable to write out the cursive letter for z and y, so I just stop midword and put in a regular letter. It sure looks weird but it gets the job done.

So needless to say I hate writing and love typing.

my hand writing looks like a cross between a serial killer and a 4 year old... it is terrible. My son and his dad (both aspies too) also have terrible handwriting, I am inclined to think it is an aspie thing.

My print's not too bad--I can almost always read it, and if I'm not taking notes or hurrying most other people can too. Now, my cursive is awful. If I want to get out legible cursive, I have to work at it and go fairly slowly, which means that I never use it except for signatures, and I hate doing those. My third-grade teacher tried to make us all write in cursive all the time if we were supposed to be writing, and I always refused--she told me that you need to learn cursive to write faster, and I remember snapping that I wrote much faster when I printed! I also much prefer to type if I can.

My fine-motor skills aren't too bad--just don't expect me to paint or write well on a chalkboard or whiteboard. My gross-motor skills, on the other hand, are--I have difficulty running 'normally,' and I'm always walking into walls or doors--not head-on, but I can't walk in a straight line and I tend to try to go through the sides or run into them.