Dysgraphia

[Banquo]

My writing is bad..I am right-handed but write like a left hander. I often writing in block capitals to ensure I can read what I have written. I write in pencil whenever possible. I am very particular about the type of pencils I use because of the way that they run over the paper. I am also very particular about my paper. I have a unruled book that I use for notes at work which has nearly run out but I cannot find another like it, I am seriously considering turning it upside down and writing between the existing text.

While this may raise a few eyebrows I am thinking that is preferable to the awful pads work provide.

 

[total-recoil]

It's an aspie symptom together with the fabric thing. My writing is a scrawl and I can only two finger type to be neat.

Does anybody else have terrible handwriting? Mine has been awful all my life. A lot of teachers have told me to just slow down, which obviously doesn't work; I would need to write about a letter a minute to make it even semi-neat. My hand also gets tired writing fairly quickly. Just yesterday, my mom said she learned that people with dysgraphia get fatigued more quickly while writing. I always wondered why nobody else seemed to get tired. Until now, I thought it might be because I hold my writing utensil incorrectly (between my middle and ring fingers instead of index and middle fingers), but I guess not. Who else has handwriting problems?

 

[lazaro.rafael]

Does anybody else have terrible handwriting? Mine has been awful all my life. A lot of teachers have told me to just slow down, which obviously doesn't work; I would need to write about a letter a minute to make it even semi-neat. My hand also gets tired writing fairly quickly. Just yesterday, my mom said she learned that people with dysgraphia get fatigued more quickly while writing. I always wondered why nobody else seemed to get tired. Until now, I thought it might be because I hold my writing utensil incorrectly (between my middle and ring fingers instead of index and middle fingers), but I guess not. Who else has handwriting problems?

kkkk My handwriting is also unfortunate, terribly sorry .. Received thousands of tips, advice and reprimands to improve it, but it was not possible, I'm not single calligraphy, is an amalgamation of many who appreciate calligraphy, resulting in a mess ... But it stems from us having little control motor, which causes these problems, not only the writing, but anything manual, how to draw, paint and company

 

[emmvee]

I can actually remember the day I stopped trying with my handwriting. I was never very good, but one day I noticed one of the kids who seemed to fit in really well- his handwriting was terribly messy, and for some reason I saw that as my in for fitting in. It didn't occur to me that the other kids don't read my school work. It would have been about grade two. From that day on, my handwriting was terrible.
Interestingly, the kid who's example I followed turned out to be very dyslexic and had to wear tinted glasses and had all kinds of intervention from specialists. I am friends with him now on facebook and his spelling and grammar is shocking.

 

[aspieworldcitizen]

I went to catholic school, where there was a lot of emphasis on calligraphy (as opposed to content). I always got reprimanded by my teachers, so I dreaded when they asked to see our notebooks. My handwriting right now is not so terrible if I slow down, but the faster I write, the harder it definitely is for even me to read. And yes, like someone said this probably is indeed an Aspergers thing having to do with fine motor coordination. When I was in pre-school and kindergarten, I thought I had a low IQ because so much of what we were being evaluated on involved motor coordination (coloring, cutting, pasting, gym, etc.). My parents took me to a therapist to work some of that. It was early 80s, so no one figured out it was Aspergers. Once I moved on to first grade, I continued to suck at things like art and gym, but at least my performance in the rest of the courses showed me I wasn't so dumb afterall

 

[MoCoffee]

My nephew has disgraphia too, and the school ended up letting him use a computer to do his school work because he simply could not write.

 

[LikeyouToMe]

Does anybody else have terrible handwriting? Mine has been awful all my life. A lot of teachers have told me to just slow down, which obviously doesn't work; I would need to write about a letter a minute to make it even semi-neat. My hand also gets tired writing fairly quickly. Just yesterday, my mom said she learned that people with dysgraphia get fatigued more quickly while writing. I always wondered why nobody else seemed to get tired. Until now, I thought it might be because I hold my writing utensil incorrectly (between my middle and ring fingers instead of index and middle fingers), but I guess not. Who else has handwriting problems?

To be frank, mine is...

Piss f**king poor

hahaha

 

[Laughingowl1975]

My handwriting is poor but not as bad as it was as a child, I used to get letters back to front or even upside-down. I still have words floating above the line and either spread out or crammed together with lots of spelling mistakes and cross-outs. I used to joke I could be a Doctor with my bad handwriting (every doctor or psychiatrist I know has bad handwriting). One odd thing is my typing at the computer is getting a bit haphazard I'll give you a example...
When I type:
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog
without correcting it, it comes out:
The quickl Brown FOx JumpsO ver The Lay DOg
Any one do this when typing?

 

[Axeman52]

When I type:
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog
without correcting it, it comes out:
The quickl Brown FOx JumpsO ver The Lay DOg
Any one do this when typing?

Yes, that often happens to me. I'm not going to correct mistakes in this message just to see what happens.. Ugh, no wait, I have to correct them, they are really annoying me...

My handwriting can be good if I really take care to be neat. Just writing mornamly (ok, that one was amusing, I'm gonna keep that one - I meant 'normally') like when I'm taking notes for a lecture and don't have time to focus on writing neatly, I sometimes have a hard time reading my own handwriting when I look over my notes.

I can definitely relate to my hand getting tired very fast, too. Especially when I try really hard to write neatly. My wrist, and then my whole arm starts to ache, very quickly.

 

[James]

Always had bad hand writing. In college I swited to printing. That helped. I prefer to use pencil but I don't know why as I like pens

 

[GallacticGorilla]

Is this prettymuch across the board thing for Aspies? It seems like it is a really similar characteristic shared by most in here, from what I have read.

Its kind of funny, in the past couple months ive primarily stuck to mechanical pencils, and having the option to erease seems to help a little bit. Are pencils for kids? I like them. They are also more tactile, as you can put varying degrees of pressure and width with the graphite.

 

[GallacticGorilla]

I print everything in capital letters using a blue ultra fine pen or blue pencil. The color choice is one of my quirks, but printing is a necessity. My penmanship looks like hen scratch, so I print if I want to ensure the reader can understand it.

I do all caps too. lol

 

[King_Oni]

My handwriting is all over the place. I tend to even use different ways to write certain letters, within the same word. I guess it would be as if I'm using a different font throughout words for typing.

The only time I tend to write clearly is when I'm writing all caps and not necessarily for words but just random letters, like writing down a password or something. To prevent confusion with said "all caps" writing, I tend to underline the ones that are capitalized. I've gotten far enough so people around the house understand what the underline means if I'm writing down a password for something they need.

But yes, my handwriting is horrible. Not unreadable, but it's far from nice

 

[Flinty]

I get the ultimate backhanded (heh) comment: apparently my writing is good for a left-hander.

That's great because all the lefties in my class got lengthy detentions in Grade 4 for our letters leaning the wrong way. Yes, this garbage occurred in a public school as recently as 1980.

 

[Archer36]

My natural handwriting is horrible. It doesn't look like human language.

But at few years ago I learned a new font. Its much slower, but it looks better. It's my backup plan.

 

[shakeitup94]

YES! I get mocked endlessly by coworkers and teachers and friends and family about my writing. It's shocking. Even when I think it's neat apparently it's not. It's a joke if I can get it almost normal.

 

[buckyboy14]

A couple weeks ago, a teacher told me to write slowly so I could be neater. I tried to tell him that it doesn't work like that, and that I would need to spend about a minute on each word for it to be more legible. I even showed him the Wikipedia article on Dysgraphia to help him understand. Instead, he told me to write a word on a piece of paper slowly, then again quickly. Obviously the one that was written slowly was better, so he reasoned that I could write just fine. He refused to believe that I would be physically unable to keep that up, because my hand would grow fatigued.

 

[rollerskate]

Mine is self invented and quite unique. 70‰ can read the print but almost no one can read the cursive. And oddly, I don't really care if anyone can read it or not because I like it.

 

[AspieSam]

I have this. My handwriting isn't awful. But, it's far from all that great as well. It's been better, and much worse before.

 

[millie33]

I can't read my own handwriting 10 minutes after I've written it lol thankfully there are keyboards.