Can you read this?

I print because I can't read my own handwriting and they joked when dad retired that he was going to give penmanship lessons at the med school to aspiring doctors...

Mine is pretty awful too. I can only write in capital letters. Whenever I try to write in small letters like normal people do, it looks like a small child or a mentally retarded person has written it! This comes from the fact that after I left school and started working, I was not required to write at all and totally lost the feel for it.

My handwriting is pretty legible, but I did have one or two professor complain about some of my lettering, and complain that I didn't know how to write properly. So, I printed everything for them, and then they complained when it was taking me a long time to write my notes, and I told them that if I cannot handwrite my notes and my work, then it will take me forever to write my notes. Let's just say, I didn't get good grades out of those classes.

No I cannot, so therefore I am unsure what to say here? All I do know is that every time I put a pen in my hand to sign a credit card receipt, my fingers act like an electrocuted octopus and spasm erratically. As for what I actually write on the slip, the text resembles an Aramaic/Sanskrit hybrid. Thank goodness I have my full name embroidered in my underwear because if I was asked to write it out, I'd have to claim amnesia.

Handwriting does not matter if it is readable by any means. There are number of famous people in our world whose handwriting is not so well. Moreover, why do you think that all doctors have bad handwriting? Few years back, I had visited a dermatologists in my locality, and I can remind that he used to write the prescriptions with a very uncommon and wonderful inked pens. I was also really amazed to see his beautiful handwriting like any great artist. So never think that doctors stand for bad handwriting lol. Actually, at this modern generation the kids are being used to use the ball pens after leaving their pencil habits. In my childhood, I remember that my father bought me a fountain pen. I think if the kids are given fountain pens after finishing the pencil stages, may be their handwriting be good in the coming days. Also thsy should be provided with high quality papers, notebooks and atleast during their childhood. So, if you can use these fountain pens and a good quality of paper to write down for few months, I think definitely it will help you to be able to write in good handwriting. I wish you for the improvements of good handwriting. Do not get frustrated instead of being an optimistic.

They said that I have a good hand writing because I am a lefty.LOL. I don't know what's the significance of that . But, I must admit that I do have a good handwriting, but, that was before.:( Presently, due to so much household chores my fingers became so stiff that it is difficult for me to scribble words the way I used to. Though, my handwriting is still readable, it doesn't look as good as it used to.... My OB has a very good hand writing. Very neat you'd think she is an Architect.LOL Have a great day ahead, P1kef1sh. :)

It depends who you ask. All the girls say they can't read left handed writing. A teacher at school didn't believe the youngest when I send a note in, she said the writing looked like a childs. I know it's distinctive but not good.

i am a doctor and i stand true to this reputation,the only persons who can decipher what i have written excluding me is the chemist nearby and since only he can read ,he does good buisiness!!!

Depends on my state of mind and health. If I put my mind to it I can produce some lovely script.

hi pikey oh my my son says it best, mom this looks like hen scratching and nobody can read it. I try honestly but am so glad that I can email most of the posting I need to do. My son has almost given me an inferiority complex over my bad handwriting.My doctor really lives up to the jokes about doctors bad handwriting, I can make out the Dr. and the Sh and the rest is sort of squiggly lines curving down on the prescription. How on earth the pharmacist can read it I will never know. I think that the time in grade school when we took penmanship and the teacher would whack our knuckles with a metal edged ruler put me off hand writing completely. She hit my hand so hard it drew blood, and I ran out of the class room in tears five blocks to my doctor Dad's office. He bandaged my hand then took mw back to the classroom. He told that teacher if she ever struck his child again, he would make her sit and have her hands slapped with a metal edged ruler.Then he took me home for the rest of the day. That teacher did not return to the classroom the next year.

Nobody should be a doctor just because of his handwriting because that is the main cause why Nurses get migraines, and eye problems!

My hand writing is okay. Its not really nice but it is readable. lol I was in medical school for more than a year and I have a theory why doctor's handwritings are like that. I guess its because they already have so many things in their minds and also so many things to do that they dont want to spend a lot of time writing down things. Its time consuming. Anyway, that's not a problem if they have horrible handwritings cause pharmacist also have horrible reading skills they are the only people who can read the doctor's prescription. lol

I know exactly what you mean, I have worked in the medical field for a very long time and yes doctors writing is super sloppy. However after working so long in the field it becomes easy to read. I believe when the handwriting is sloppy it is because you are writing faster than you are thinking. I think this is right. Anyways your typing is lovely and easy to read. LOL

Not all doctors have awful handwriting. The doctor in the nearest clinic from our home writes her prescription very clearly that I can read it well even upside down. I do have have many types of handwriting and I can change my strokes by changing the way i hold my pen. I have two comfortable ways of holding my pen. one way enables me to copy notes very fast and another way is used to make signatures for my transactions. I can write very neat and sometimes messy. It just depends on me.

ouch..i write really bad. and i think now with computers and texting most people don't even write letters or things down any more. the art of writing is lost on almost all of us in the last 10 or 15 years. it's kind of sad really... writing letters is something i use to enjoy alot

p1kef1sh, You are right that doctors do have the reputation of having the most awful handwriting which according to what I had overheard sometime back is to mask the legibility so that the unauthorized public could not actually read what is being written on the hospital charts of the patients in the wards. So their handwriting will only be legible (barely) with their registrars, colleagues and nursing or medical staffs. I think mine is pretty alright, when I have peers, friends and even my wife missing my handwritten letters from time to time. I have barely written since the emergence of internet and my wife is the only person that I will bother to write on special occasions or when I think of her when I am somewhere else on the globe.

In 1st grade, my teacher gave me a D in reading. My mom was up in arms, and went and talked to the teacher. "How can you give this child a D, when she's reading at a third grade level", she asked? The teacher said it was because she couldn't read my writing, so didn't know if I understood. My handwriting hasn't improved much since then...

I've been told i have nice handwriting and at work I was the one from the whole branch that wrote the targets on the dealership board. Come to think of it thats happened to me in pretty much every job whether it be the signs for the cafe the boards at ladbrokes so i can't be that bad. I don't mind it if i take my time but i get very scrawly myself when i rush. I wonder if thats why so many of them pass when they clearly have no clue the examiner simply can't read what they've wrote lol

I have very neat handwriting...so I guess that is why I am not a doctor. :)

Well, I already forgot how to write, since I'm always with my laptop and just kept on typing. I guess I have to practice writing again, but I have a pretty decent handwriting, but i'm no good with cursive.