Has Your Handwriting Changed With Age?

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I've always had neat penmanship and good handwriting. I remember looking at my mothers handwriting as she became older, and it was larger and larger script. I asked her about it once when I was a teen, and she said it was because her eyesight was getting poorer, so her writing was naturally bigger so she could read it.

Well, now I find the same thing happening with myself. I seem to be writing bigger than I did when I was young, and it is partly because of eyesight issues with reading. How about you, has your handwriting changed now that you're older? :magnify:
 

I'll have to get back to you on that, I can't seem to find anything with my older signature on it. I know I had something from 30 years ago, but, my old brain won't let me recall where I misplaced it.
 
I used to have nice handwriting too but now it's getting downright ugly. Tremor developing which some days makes it almost impossible so I've pretty much given up handwriting but the upside is my typing is getting phenomenal. Silver lining you know.
 

My handwriting has gotten much smaller since I was in my 20`s. That`s when I started doing the bookkeeping for our business-all by hand. 34 years and I never did switch it all over to the computer. So you put numbers in all these teeny little boxes and write checks where you`re trying to put the company names and write out the dollar amounts in small spaces,you just start writing smaller. Whenever I write a check in a store or something,they always comment on it.
 
My handwriting has always been gruesome and for several years I usually write handwritten notes in block letters. Only my signature, of course, is in longhand, and I worried about it changing - what if the bank won't recognize it? I just recently stopped worrying and decided that however it comes out it is MY signature.
I still fill out checks with block lettering, except for signing them.
 
My handwriting was never neat, hard as I tried. Now it's worse because I type more than I write out of laziness. I even type my grocery shopping list!
 
My handwriting may have changed slightly but basically when I'm writing longer than 10 minutes at a clip as I tend to get lazy and get a bit more sloppy. I think many people type because it's faster than writing by hand. I can type around 100 words a minute while hand writing is probably closer to half that.
 
I use the computer for all written work and letters etc. My handwriting, which was never that pretty, has deteriorated as I hardly ever write anything. As long as my signature is still clear, I am not too worried.
 
Logics, I think that's my problem, too. It'll start off looking neat, but if I have to write too long it starts getting sloppier and sloppier until it's nearly unreadable. Since I learned to type years and years and years ago, I've preferred typing.
 
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I find that I don't write all that much anymore .. a check once in a while or signing those credit card machines at the store or writing notes/grocery store lists. When I mail a birthday card now, I don't like what I'm looking at! . I've always written with large lettering, but now it doesn't seem to have the flowing look that it used to have. .. the eye-hand coordination thing.

On the other side of that, with the new generation, cursive writing seems to be disappearing. Since they aren't teaching it in school anymore, I've gotten a cursive writing book to teach my little granddaughters at home.
Maybe I'll fine tune my own motor skills at the same time.
 
I agree, my handwriting is not as neat as it used to be, although it hasn't changed in size at all. I still write quite a bit, Christmas and birthday cards, letters, and of course signing cheques.I shall now be looking out for any changes.:eek:
 
My handwriting has pretty much gone to the dogs over the years, unless I make a special effort on greeting cards. Signature is barely legible as well. With all the keyboarding, is handwriting becoming obsolete or will it become an art form like calligraphy?
 
I have kept a handwritten journal for over 40 years, and my handwriting is so bad now that I find it difficult to read what I wrote. I might try journaling on the computer, but then it won't be available to read in another 40 years since technology keeps changing.
 
Mine hasn't changed much at all. If I write in the early morning it isn't as neat as later on in the day. I guess my fingers aren't as limber as they once were. Everyone says I have a nice handwriting. I enjoy writing , If the hubby wants to fill out something or write a letter I do it for him. Fun for me. I was a great letter writer in years past. Sometimes I wish it was still that way. It was nice to find a letter in the mailbox now and then.
 
I'm sorry to say mine has changed. If I'm hurrying I write so fast that later I can't read what I've written.
 
I don't think its age that has changed my handwriting so much as the convenience of using my lap top and iPad, I rarely need to write anything by hand these days and, when I do can still write nicely if I make the effort !
 
Being a neat, orderly person, I find it unfair that my handwriting has deteriorated so severely!

If I have the choice, I'll Print, but if a Signature is required, as on my checks, I have to slowly and carefully form the cursive as best I can, but the result is no longer as legible as it once was.

(If I were writing Prescriptions, it wouldn't matter!)

"Signed",
Harold Pollner
(HiDesertHal)
 
My handwriting has been terrible for years - I even got held back the school year they taught cursive writing. It was a major factor in my getting into computers (ASAP). I took a lot of notes in school, but I couldn't share with anyone because no one else could read mine.
I haven't hand written anything lately, so I'm not sure how bad it's gotten (I know it hasn't gotten better).
But I can type better than the average bear.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Mine hasn't changed much at all. If I write in the early morning it isn't as neat as later on in the day. I guess my fingers aren't as limber as they once were. Everyone says I have a nice handwriting. I enjoy writing , If the hubby wants to fill out something or write a letter I do it for him. Fun for me. I was a great letter writer in years past. Sometimes I wish it was still that way. It was nice to find a letter in the mailbox now and then.
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I miss those letters too. What a joy to receive a letter from a friend or relative, then sit down and write to them. It was relaxing.
 
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