Asperger's and Good Handwriting

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She mite have experience reading messy handwriting. Therapist tend to write a lot so she mite be used to writing very fast & messy. If she writes out prescriptions; I'm willing to bet her handwriting is horrible. My mom usually did not have a problem reading my handwriting when even I had trouble but she teaches pre-K so she probably has some students & parents who are worse.
Is your typing decent cuz you mite could try using a palm-pilot with a small keyboard or using a cellphone with one of those keyboard type keypads. I much rather type than write but my typing is not great either but it's still a lot faster & easier than writing. This seems like it could be good advice for some people here but I could be wrong

When I was in grade 3 or so, the teacher sent home extra writing practice for me because my writing was so messy. I'm left handed though, which could be why. In high school someone told me my writing was good for a leftie, but I think it's degenerated since then. I have trouble taking notes in lecture, I can't write fast enough and my hand cramps.

I just remembered that I've been told that I have the pencil grip of a left-handed person & I write like a lefty but I'm right-handed. I think it mite be by had fine motor-skills

I've just met someone today who has Asperger's and has neater fast writing than me. I was pretty surprised.

I've always neglected things including spacing and some general shape things when it comes to print. Starting to try out Calligraphy has helped me if I try to treat the letters as an art form, but then I go back to anything from just a generalized shape of the letters to where hopefully anyone else can read it. Sometimes I fail miserably and can't read my own writing. ^^'

And if the paper is not lined, forget about it being legible, the same size, or even in a perfect horizontal line- even if I do calligraphy for the last two criteria.

I remember learning to write cursive and gripping the pencil way too tightly. I'd give myself hand cramps trying too hard, and it still came out sub-par. I've since learned that I do better printing (for awhile it was all caps, now it is upper and lower case.)

I still don't like writing or holding a pen or pencil for a long period of time. I tried keeping a journal for awhile, but that never panned out because I would write too slowly and my hand would be aching by the time I finished what I was writing. I've recently tried fountain pens, and they are a lot easier to use than ball-points... though they don't really improve my handwriting.

Typing is no problem for me, though. I can touch type really quickly.

People tell me that regularly, too

I'm a leftie and I can't do cursive, and my print isn't great either. I can write neatly if I concentrate after loads of practice, but prolonged writing hurts my wrist. My right hand, well, is just horrible.

I have messy handwriting.

That is not messy.

My handwriting is still not good but is much better today than my childhood. Teachers and other people would ask what I wrote.
Doing cursive/running writing proved too difficult to continue,print is far more suitable although a little immense. I'll give some advice
on writing really well.Write very slowly.

I have two distinct penmanships.

one is so messy no one can read it.... sometimes not even me.
The other is ... uh.. eloquent? almost flowery... and flowing... very legible, it's like halfway between writing and printing... but more writing. Kills my wrist... but when I write for catharsis, that's what comes out. It almost seems wrong when i lapse into the poor stuff for something as important as hundreds of pages than no one will ever be allowed to read.

I tend to use it when writing letters to.
The poor stuff is more for notes, appointments, stuff like that, but I have to like force myself to write nice if I want to.

One problem I do have with the flowery handwriting is long words....
They tend to lose their flow if my hand has to move on the paper to finish writing the word... so the word degrades near the end.

Oh, i can also write 15th century style too... quite fun writing that way.. then NO one can read much of it... Learned it while transcribing genealogical records years ago... reading it is hard enough, but getting your hand to write those scribbles and upside-down h's is.. uh... fun.. yeah, that's it.. fun.

I have really bad handwriting, but I'm not sure if it's connected to Autism at all. I also type really slow.

Yea, way to make me feel even worse than I already knew it was!


I tend to write in a cursive scrawl because it's faster. The thing is, if I can I want to type -- I can type 117 WPM and I can tell what I wrote afterwards...unlike if I handwrote even taking my time...

I have published quite a lot and occasionally had to discuss printing with creative people. One thing that I never had any time for, whatsoever, was their discussion of choosing typefaces.

To me, the type must be clear and any variations serve a purpose, like italic quotations, that is also clear. I will pick a typeface to suit the formality or informality of the document, and avoid mixing typefaces because I know that is usually wrong. But creative people start using all kinds of different typefaces, all in one document, with some hugely complicated rules about how typefaces are related to each other, who designed the typeface, where it has been famously used and all other kind of historical stuff that is not related to readability. It is all so touchy-feely.

Type is how I wish my handwriting is when it is completely neat.

Does anyone else have a total disregard for typefaces?

I have terrible handwriting.

I have to write in print just to be barely readable and sometimes even that fails. I can draw pretty well though, just can't write.

I remember being often told i should be a doctor because of my bad handwriting.

Do all doctors really have that bad handwriting?