Can you read your own writing? Cursive🙃

[fuzzybuddy]

When I was a psych nurse, I had to write a detailed synopsis of how each patient was doing each shift. During this time, my spinal problem was causing more and more pain. The staff commented that my writing was getting worse and worse. I don't know if it was pain or age. Today, I can write in "Palmer" type writing, but it's a real effort. Usually, I remember what the ink scratches meant.

 

[dobielvr]

Yes, I can but my style of cursive fluctuates. Occasionally, it's attractive, often ugly to me. I also may form a letter totally differently in the same sentence. An s one way at the beginning and another way at the end. Makes me feel like a split personality. Interestingly, I am a .

I do the same thing. Some of it 's cursive then it becomes printing.. or visa versa.
But, I can always read it.

 

[Pappy]

Most of the time I can, but sometimes my hand shakes so bad I can’t..and neither can anyone else..

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

I was a draftsman by trade for a few years when much younger and spent so much time writing and drawing that my hand hurt and the pencil put a dent in my finger. It's shocking how atrocious my penmanship has become. Like I don't care anymore or something

Bet you print nicely, though. My printing still looks like my drafting printing.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

If your handwriting turns to TINY handwriting, whatever form it is a symptom of Parkinsons.

 

[Naturally]

Bet you print nicely, though. My printing still looks like my drafting printing.

I do still print in all block / cap letters although not anywhere near as precisely I once did.
Hardly no one would guess me a former draftsman anymore

 

[MaidMarian]

I’ve always been told that I have nice handwriting.
It was beaten into me at Catholic school. They were very strict about handwriting.

 

[Lilac]

I still do my notes & lists in cursive & I can read it.

 

[Babs2u]

If I write a long note or big list I can see my handwriting skill diminish as I progress. Toward the end it's just scribble.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

My mother beat fine handwriting into my older sister and I, we both have what people call "Gorgeous" handwriting, and my older sister's is much like mine, except her handwriting is prettier, I admit. My two younger sisters? I think my mother ran out of energy, because my two younger sister's handwriting looked/looks like chicken scratch!

Mine takes me longer now, I have over used hands.

 

[Rossana]

I am left-handed and never had pretty handwriting. People always had difficulties reading me.
I use a Pilot Dr. Grip pen. It is a quite fat and heavy pen but it helps a little bit. I also bought a handbook with cursive handwriting exercises that I am planning to use to improve my handwriting.

 

[Ruthanne]

I’ve always been told that I have nice handwriting.
It was beaten into me at Catholic school. They were very strict about handwriting.

I went to Catholic grade school too and got little rewards for my penmanship. It used to be very nice but over the years not so nice. Often my hands shake too.

 

[horseless carriage]

I’ve always been told that I have nice handwriting.
It was beaten into me at Catholic school. They were very strict about handwriting.

What weren't they strict about? I too went to a Catholic school where I was taught that God is love. Just to make sure that I and others got that message, it was beaten into us, almost daily.

 

[DailyArtsyCrafter]

I do the same thing. Some of it 's cursive then it becomes printing..

One other person somewhere said they do too, and now you. Makes me feel like I'm not such a mental case. Why do we feel so alone when we have quirks? There are probably thousands and thousands of people who have the same ones.

 

[David777]

Sure. During the 1950s/1960s era that was how children penciled text on paper. My Mom and sister wrote letters to each other so over following decades. Over time my handwriting evolved more to mixed cursive and letter print style. After I began using DEC VAX work computers given access to printers in the 1980's, my handwriting needs decreased but will still write so say on the back of topo maps when out in the field or to add pencil notes on any paper.

I've read some states stopped teaching cursive writing skills to school children that is ridiculous.

 

[seadoug]

It's really sad, actually. I took Architecture in college and my penmanship used to be exemplary. In Drafting class, I learned to draw things like perfect squares without a straight edge.

From years of using computer keyboards and never writing anything, my penmanship is now abysmal. I hate to write anything these days, so so yes... sometimes I can't read my own cursive writing.

 

[Ruthanne]

It's really sad, actually. I took Architecture in college and my penmanship used to be exemplary. In Drafting class, I learned to draw things like perfect squares without a straight edge.

From years of using computer keyboards and never writing anything, my penmanship is now abysmal. I hate to write anything these days, so so yes... sometimes I can't read my own cursive writing.

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