Have You Noticed??? Or Is It Only Me?

Pye, I am left-handed by nature, yet as a child in school, I was taught to write right handed or let me say expected to make legible scratch marks with the right hand. I never learned how to write well with either hand so yes, mine sucks.

My handwriting changes from day to day. Sometimes it's quite neat and lovely, other times it's just a scrawl. Depends on how many neurons are firing at any given moment, I guess.

hahaha my friend, my handwriting has always been terrible, to the extent that sometimes i too have problwems with it, but as i have entered the higher reaches of academia it doesnt seem to matter so much, i guess its a case of what iswritten being more important than if it looks nice blessed be

I decided in 11th grade I couldn't read my handwriting and if I was going to take notes in college, I had to read them. I also learned to take my notes in outline form, worked best for me. Now, tho, my printing has evolved into a form of cursive, (isn't it funny how much like "curse" that word is?) I can still read it, but I know there are those who can't. Oh, I sometimes write my stores by hand and sometimes on the computer, just depends.

Hahahaha! That is too funny... my mother has absolutely beautiful handwriting, it flows and all the letters are perfectly formed. And she has criticized mine unmercifully, to the point that I became obsessed with my handwriting and never felt it was good enough, because sure enough my mother would find something wrong with it. I avoid writing anything to her at all anymore just to avoid that trap. But yeah, my handwriting can be pretty undecipherable, I too used to have to print if I wanted to be sure and be able to read it later. The thing is that so often my mind is racing ahead of my hand by light-years, so that leaves my hand always scrambling to catch up. I never thought that I would be able to write with a keyboard. There was something about holding the pen in my hand and moving it across the paper that connected the words to the thoughts and feelings that didn't happen at a keyboard... at a keyboard I would go totally blank. The first time I ever successfully wrote anything with a keyboard was once when I had smoked a little cannabis and was wanting to ramble on to my then boyfriend about my house and the plans I had for it. He was living with me and had an earache or a toothache or something and was too distracted by his pain to share my enthusiasm, so I said phuck it, and decided to take the opportunity to practice moving ideas from my head into the keyboard. That practice session became the piece that got me my column in the local newspaper! I used to write down my dreams when they woke me at night. Hehehe... try reading that handwriting! Written while I was mostly asleep, in the dark because if I turned on a light I would wake up too much and the dream would be gone. I switched over to one of those little hand held voice activated recorders but my sleepy croaky voice mumbling and slurring voice was no more decipherable than my handwriting! Imagine if we were still having to etch everything we wanted to write in stone!

My handwriting is simply terrible - such that I sometimes cannot decipher my own writing. Most of the time, when I hand over any written stuff for my staff to type or follow up, I have to either write it out in capitals or go thru the note verbally with them. I simply hate writing by hand.

mine was always bad they could never read it at work, and when I had to do my papers by hand I couldn't read my own work, by the time I got to university I had to get a computer because the professors would not accept hand written papers.

I have tended to geting sloppy when signing something trying to make it look like Doctors hand writting main reason for that no one can forge my name lol other than that I write still fairly well. BUt on her I miss spell words and if going to fast I get extra letters in the words that dont belong there for my fingers tend to hit other keys along with the right ones lol

I personally think Dentists have the worst handwriting! We have a couple dentist clients and I was so glad when they went computerized for thier checkbooks. It was horrible trying to read who they wrote a check to and how much it was for! I've never had great penmanship - my first grade notebook (yes, I still have it) has all these horrible notes from the nuns about my writing. I very rarely write in cursive any more, and my grandmother pointed that out to us a while back. I try to write in cursive when I can, but it's much easier for me to print - and easier to read!

I too write a LOT in my job..... Literally hundreds of thousands of words a year and all from my computer. I too have noticed a rapid decline in the quality of my penmanship as a result. Even when I sign a credit card receipt I find my signature fast becoming a shadow of its former self! I just have little or no opportunities to use hand writing anymore; and I am sure that this is the same for most of us now! I especially notice the poor quality of my hand writing now when I have to fill out bank transfer forms etc. I have even had to re-do copies because of the ineligibility of what I have written in the sections sometimes. Sad but true and your observation is most definitely relevant to me!

my handwriting's always sucked irregardless of computer.it's not quite "doctor" level,but i know it's sloppy.i tend to lean in both directions,i'd probably give a handwriting expert the fits.

Over the years it was always commented to me how beautiful my writing was. I always had a pen in my hand and was always writing. I used to take real pride in my writing. But yes my writing is now terrible it is not as tidy as it used to be that is for sure. I have been doing things by hand recently to try and get it back to being neat and tidy again!

My handwriting was so bad that it couldn't possibly have gotten worse!

Well, the old ssaying use it or loose it. We tend to be good at anything if do it frequently. the nerves has memory too.

My handwritig has always been horrible, and I think it's become worse since I'e been using the computer for most things. Sometimes I can't even read my own writing, that's how bad it's gotten. It's kinda sad actually because everyone should be able to read thier own handwriting.

I think my handwriting has stayed the same, as I do write alot of diffrent things in the course of a day, and I don't like my writing to be messy.

hello pye, cant help but smile while i am reading your discussion coz i am thinking of my man, he writes as if he is a little kid and boy he sometimes dont understand it as well. i used to tease him that he can type 100 character or more in just a minute but it will take him 2-3 minutes to write his full name LOL. i love to write and growing up i used to write stories and compete at school. i also sometimes write at the black board if my teacher is not around. i like my hand writing and i am happy that the computer is not making it worst unlike most who seems to depend on the computer software nowadays. i still try to write by hand once in a while coz i know practice makes perfect haha. anyway, i cant believe that my hubby is not alone i have to tease him again tonight or asked him to write something for me hahaha. good night!

Generally speaking, my handwriting is ok. When I was writing on the board or for someone else to read, I generally printed unless I was specifically asked to write in cursive. The only time you can't read my writing is if I was writing really fast while someone was watching me. I hate people watching me write. But I can definitely say, I prefer to type as opposed to handwriting. I just don't like doing it on this keyboard because it always goes all over the place and I have had to start many posts from scratch because somehow it would close out. Talk to you later.

Yep, mine too has gone decidely downhill recently (well over the last 10 yrs). It is worse when I'm in a hurry then it is just squiggles. I used to do shorthand too but now I can't remember a lot of it so that is fun trying to remember what each squiggle is and sometimes I am way, way out! My BF has wonderful neat writing, typical of an architects style. Very clear, he never rushes it. Me I just dash it all down as I'm running around doing one errand or another. Tee hee. I used to do all my shopping lists on the computer too but I've stopped doing that now. I have to let me fingers do something other than typing (and washing, cleaning, cooking, etc., etc.!) Thanks for sharing this with us.

I'm left-handed since child. I was never corrected because it was said then that it's bad to correct a child because it will affect her thinking. hhmm... Yes, I have a bad script handwriting. My writing is better when I used print style. I'm just starting to make my story right now. I hope to really finish it. I think we should hand write once in while so as to not forgotten it so to speak.