How is your handwriting?

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mine is complete s**t

Handwriting is the only thing with my hands that I feel comfortable doing well. Maybe I should take my ister's advice and be a writer. Ah well.

Mines similar, it's worse when I get tired, someone told me last week I had little kids writing.

Good, I think.

I'll have to remember to post a sample.

Handprinting and writing topic

Writing with my feet would be better.

I have bad cursive. Sometimes I can't read my own cursive and most of the time people can't read my cursive. I have ok printing. I mostly write in print unless I have to sign something. Dawn

dreadful..and i think its getting worse.
mine is illegible to most (99%) of people.
i dont like writin,i keep getting pain all the way up my arm and it makes my writing even worse.

My handwriting is terrible, except for when I write slowly and take my utmost time. I can however, write Modern Hebrew and its script variant, lol... Same goes with my speech - I can pronounce foreign words better and more proficiently than I can at the choppy version of English we have here in the US, LOL. In terms of cursive tho, hell, if I ever wanted to write fancy, I'll just do it via calligraphy....which I do intend on learning..

I suck at writing cursive. I heard it's faster to write in but for me it takes me longer so I prefer print. I think my handwriting is okay because it's readable. It was messy as a kid but still readable. My teacher used to be marked down when I was 8 for my hand writing. My brothers had messy hand writing too same as other little kids I saw. My hand writing got good every year though as I got older.

My handwriting is bad and I have always been embarrased because of it.

I'm not sure if I'm really Aspie, but my mom with a Masters in Counseling thinks it's very possible, and since you all make more sense to me on this forum than anyone else I've ever talked to, it's highly probable.

My handwriting is actually very good, but I'm left handed, and I like art. So, I do take my good old time to make it pretty. When I actually do write fast, it is okay, and only sometimes I can't make it out. I do a lot of things in that situations like educ8 or b4 or something like th@. When I'm really tired, I will fall asleep while writing and then the sentence makes absolutely zero sense like if I were going to say, "notify me when a reply is posted" it would come out "notify me whennn the baby is cleaning the dinner." On chalkboards (or dry erase), I actually do better right handed, and that is no where near as pretty as how I write on paper. But, I learned because of that, I can actually paint (pictures...walls too I guess) with both hands, and I do so when most convenient.

my handwriting is the one big thing that does not fit nicely into my AS dx.

i have beautiful handwriting. one of my more benign nicknames in school was Toni the Typewriter. my printing is very small and exact. my cursive is also small and very neat.

but i write very, very, VERY slowly. i do everything slowly. so while i drop things 20 times a day and i'm clumsy as heck, i can write.

My handwriting is so bad and slow, I was forced to stop taking notes in class because I couldn't read them the next day. I was better off just listening to the professor.

Same here. It turns into an urge to throw down the pencil/pen or break it. It hurts, but I keep writing through the pain.

After all I want to be a writer.

And yes. My handwriting is absolutely horrible. My signature is writing my own in as horribly as I can, because no one can do it as horrible as me.

Back when I was in public school it was tottaly illegiable. Almost all of my elementry school asignemts had "sloppy" written on them next to my grade. Writing just one sentence made my hands hurt but my teachers thought I was just being lazy because I could draw so well. I had trouble learning cursive and my teachers would yell at me when my letters came out wrong. I could never undetstand why I was forced to learn to print and then forced to learn to write in cursive. My IEP speficaly stated the special ed teacher was to use a program called "Handwriting Without Tears Cursive Sucess" with me, which my mother had provided. But the teacher never did and the book sat abondoned because the teacher thought she could teach me better than some silly old book could. To make it worse, I wrote very slowly about could not keep up with the other students, my teachers were always yelling at me to hurry up and then yelling at me more when my writing became sloppy. If I we were required to write in cursive, most teachers soon realised they were not going to be able to read mine because it was too "sloppy" and let me print my work while everyone else wrote in cursive. In a way I felt kinda left out. After I was homeschooled and used the "Handwriting Without Tears Cursive Sucess" with me, and I was not required to write so much, my hands began to heal and my writing became more clear and legible. I still print today because of too many negetive memories with trying to learn cursive. Nobody has a problem with it. Why is cursive taught anyway? Why not just choose print or cursive and stick with it. It made no sence to me to finnaly learn to print the way everyone else deemed acceptable, then I had cursive dumped on me. Trying to read cursive writing is like trying to read Chinese, regarudless of how neat it is. It felt like I was learning to read all over again.

Last edited by PunkyKat on 14 Dec 2008, 10:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My cursive writing has always been horrible. My teachers used to comment on my sloppiness---but I couldn't help it. As far as printing goes, if I take my time and really concentrate on being neat, I can do a fair job. But I prefer using the computer for my writing needs.