Bad Handwriting and Autism

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So my Psychologist was asking me to write sentences and I remembered that I have terrible handwriting. Mostly because I've been typing for the last few years. Ironically I have MIRACULOUS reading comprehension. But I'm a horrible speller and my handwriting is atrocious. I say this because even neurotypicals I know who say their handwriting is bad have good handwriting to me. I wonder if this is a typical Autism trait or if it's just me?

I actually can't really handwrite any more (I print instead). I think I stopped sometime around grade 7. About the only thing I handwrite today is my signature.

My printing, from a neatness perspective, is so-so. I think it's very legible by pretty much everyone, but then I think that printing, in general, is easier to read than handwriting. When I'm focusing in printing neatly, I would say I'm capable of printing very neatly, but that's not the norm.

I'm not sure how to vote on this. when you say handwriting, do you mean handwriting only? Or does printing count?

My body has never moved as fast as my mind does. I just assumed it was the same deal with my handwriting.

I have overly neat handwriting, especially cursive. People always comment about how pretty it is. I attribute this to being a huge perfectionist as a child as well as to a slight obsession with pleasing my teachers. I was repeatedly criticized in kindergarten for having messy handwriting and for gripping my pencil wrong so I became very self conscious of it and practiced and practiced until it was perfect.

Lack of fine motor skills is an aspie trait.

Keyboards, Keypads, touch screens and the like means we write much less and are worse as a whole then we used to be. Except for signing ones name cursive writing or script is mostly gone.

Ever since I was old enough to pick up a pen I have been an artist... mostly line drawings, faces, figures etc. Despite this, my handwriting has never been good. It's now so bad that I just write in print. Maybe I have never considered handwriting as an artistic endeavour, but I never seem to have the patience or the will to even try.
A few years ago I taught myself to touch type (dead easy now with the relevant app)... so I tend to rattle stuff off on the computer keyboard.

as a child they tried to make this leftie into a righty, it didn't quite work [a deer slamming into me and shattering an arm did manage to make me switch to my right hand, for about a year until the arm healed, however]. but they did manage to force me to hold my pencil in a more conventional manner. I write legibly but just barely, and glacially slowly as well, but at least I do so with either hand.

My handwriting shifts from unreadable to extremely neat. It depends a lot on my mood when writing.

My AS mother and I both did and do most handwriting as print. I was skipped over the grade in school where cursive was taught, but later studied calligraphy a bit. I got pretty good at one simple "font" and could do it at any scale, sometimes using a foam paintbrush like a pen nib. My signature is rather distinctive, but I have not changed it since my age was in the single digits.

Mines awful honestly looks like a child. I even miss letters out of my signature. My handwriting would slope down the page in school.

I have pretty good handwriting. Many of my peers and teachers back in school even commended me for it, in fact.

I have good handwriting, and so does my mom. My dad and brother both have poor handwriting. I'm the only one of us on the autism spectrum. My cursive is neater-looking than my printing, but I think that's just because I use it more. When I was in elementary school, there were at least 2 years where we had to write everything in cursive, and I just never stopped doing it.

People tell me I have a nice signature. On the whole, I feel my handwriting is legible, although not fancy.