Abnormal signature

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(I mean the one you sign checks with, not your sig line. )

Signatures are accepted as validly legally binding in part because they're unique and distinctive. Even when a person's cursive writing still looks nice and regular enough to be a text font, their signature will be some wild scrawl the letters of which are different from how they make those same letters in regular writing.

And then there's me. My cursive writing, although perfectly legible, still looks as labored and graceless as it did in grade school, and my signature looks exactly as it did then as well. Even if I push the limits of my poor fine motor skills and write it quickly it still looks like a 3rd grader was told to write out my name; the letters look exactly as they would if I used them for other words, and it doesn't look like a signature, much less one from a middle-aged woman.

Have you ever seen the signature of a recently-married woman who took or added on her husband's name? The new name looks like regular handwriting, not like the rest of her signature. In my case, though, the new name was indistinguishable from the old name from the first time I used it; technically, I don't really HAVE a signature, all I'm doing is writing my name.

Does anyone else have this oddity?

I don't have a signature. I just write my name out in cursive. Even if I'm going fast and being purposely sloppy it still looks like my name in cursive. I don't understand how people get signatures. Do they decide how they want it to look and then practice that?

I never liked cursive. It seems they tried to make handwriting flow more easily, and failed miserably at it. When signing for a credit card or something, I just scribble something that looks vaguely like my name. My normal handwriting has instead adapted a little more loopyness and flow, but is certainly not cursive. Who put the curse in cursive?

and my signature is different every time, so I doubt those 'security' signatures would function correctly with me.

I also write my signature, the way that my name looks in cursive. It's very strange.

Big loopy third-grade letters here. I had to actually intentionally develop a signature because I hated it so much. I think of it now as creating a picture instead. For each name I write the first letter, replete with full cursive flourishes, and then follow up with a distinct wavy line -- lumped where the stockier letters would be. Try that. Break yourself of thinking that you're writing letters. That should help.

buy a house. your signature will turn to chicken scratch before your done with all the paperwork

Like many others have said, when I have to put down my signature, I just use regular ol' cursive.

I use this signature now, after discarding my birth name.



It's pretty much like that, printed, with the trademark symbol from the name I use on most forums (but couldn't use here, sadly), Max™.


There is nothing making you use cursive, nor your real name, it simply has to be provably your handwriting, in that you could reproduce it. I always write my Max™ the same way, it is my signature now.

my signature looks like one of those avant garde neon light glass sculptures. i absolutely cannot write cursive. i can only print.

Well, my cursive was always awful. By the time I actually needed to sign things, I had long ditched it for regular print like any sane person would have done.

When I write my signature, it's just my name but the end of the last R goes on and underlines it. Or sometimes it crosses it out...

My signature looks absolutely nothing like other signatures. Those not only seem to have had actual thought gone into it to design it, but they're also very fluid and more like an image than like text. I find that most peculiar. Ah, for the days of rings pressed into hot wax...

Mine is decent. It's got a capital cursive S and the next 5 letters are tiny followed by a big loopy R. I have to keep it the same because it's on all my bank cards.

My signature used to look labored and rarely turned out the same. Then I realized I was trying to hard, and it was not worth it. My mother thinks my signature looks like those of the doctors she used to work with now, but it usually looks the same from one document to the next.

yeah, as I said, there is no consistency with mine.