aspies have poor writing skills?

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When I write a report , i always feel that I have to state everything very clearly, but people who read my report often tell me that some thing do not have to be written out as it is understood.

I do the same thing and write it out but I do it more when talking and explaining something to another person

My writing is fine. My handwriting is a whole other issue.

Same here. My handwriting is so awful, it's embarrassing.

My handwriting is also very bad.

Everything I write by hand is illegible, even to me.

Bad handwriting is caused by dyspraxia damaging your fine motor skills, BTW. Dyspraxia is very common with Asperger's.

My handwriting is not only awful, but at 49 I am barely able to do it anymore. But I don't think this is the question being asked.

To answer the question directly, it has been my experience from WP that the writing skills of the average aspie are far, far superior to the average normal person. But it's more complicated than this.

The first rule of good writing is to understand one's audience, and this is where many aspies are weak. It is hard for us really to understand anybody, including those we write to.

As far as persuasive writing goes, which most writing is in one way or another, normal people rarely are persuaded by good logic; there has to be some kind of deeper connection that mystifies me.

Isn't bad handwriting supposed to be a sign of genius? If so, then i r 1 Although my posts may not show it, I am considered to be a very good writer, or so I am told by my editors (I write professionally). And my handwriting is really bad. My grandfather had beautiful penmanship. His letters were always a work of art. Now however, they don't even teach script in schools anymore. I wonder how the kids will sign their names?

I have wondered the same thing!
I have been told by my instructors at school that my writing skills are very good; but my handwriting is embarrassing, it's so bad.

I've been told my handwriting looks like a child's, probably because I don't join my letters up, I always have problems reading writing that is joined up too. My daughter is the same, she hates having to join her letters up and at first found it frustrating that the letter a looks like this in lowercase "a" this in uppercase "A" but she was being taught to write it with extra 'bits'. She couldn't understand the logic when books, computers etc all had non joined up writing and I couldn't give her a good reason as to why they taught them to write that way.

I express myself much better in writing than I do in speech, but I still often get frustrated with my poorly I feel I'm translating my thoughts into words.

My hand writing used to be rubbish however it has improved quite a lot.

My writing is excellent. My handwriting, on the other hand...


Really though, I have a problem with saying too much with text forms of communication. I have a very hard time keeping my texts just one text message in length.

I've been told I write well (ex. my first grade teacher told my mom that I wrote at a fourth-grade level). My handwriting, while not perfectly neat, is still legible. I definitely need lines on the paper, because otherwise, my writing goes up at a diagonal (my 2nd grade teacher said that my writing looked "like it was taking off at O'Hare Airport" - not much has changed). I've been told that my handwriting is "cool" and "interesting". I was in an English class with one of my Aspie friends in high school (she has very illegible handwriting) and we'd often have to do presentations where we had to write something on the board; she would always ask me to write on the board for her.

I've had horrible handwriting all my life. It's improved over the years, but it's still pretty bad. When people complain about my handwriting I tell them "it used to be worse". That shuts them up.

I have been told that I write well, though.