Do you have poor penmanship/handwriting?

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About the only person in this world who can read my handwriting is me. Yet even I have difficulty reading what I write most of the time. Thank God for the computer for without it (or a typewriter), I would never be able to get my point across through writing.

My handwriting is incredibly neat. However, I cannot easily write in cursive and it takes forever for me to try to decipher cursive handwriting. I print each letter separately.

Also, I literally spent hours and hours when I was a child trying to perfect my handwriting and learn to write with my left and right hands equally. It was a bit of an obsession.

Personally, I'm utterly delighted to see penmanship lesson go by the wayside! In first grade, I was yelled at and had to stay in "noon room" (no recess, which I never liked (too many people) and lunch is served in a small room, with only half time to finish it: 15 minutes instead of the usual 30 to 45). I had to write in tiny graph paper squares and fill both sides with a specific sentence, usually "I will write properly." Despite the fact that I had perfect spelling, the teacher would say my letters weren't clear enough and "chicken scratches aren't words," so the words were considered wrong.

my handwriting is terrible. which is why i wanted a typewriter growing up and then i got computers.

I have taken to printing instead of writing.

this is because my handwriting is terrible. It's also painful for me to write anything manually.

My handwriting is horrendous, but my spelling and grammar are perfect.