Bad Handwriting and Autism

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Same. My brother has good handwriting. I was diagnosed with dysgraphia when I was five.. a few years before ASD.

Last edited by Pieplup on 23 Oct 2017, 1:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I voted bad. But it's not because of autism. It's because I have not been exercising my muscles in my hands by writing because I have been typing for years now. With not being in school anymore and everything being done on computer now, I type and the fact I pay by card than checks and I would pay bills online than writing a check because it was quicker and faster and "free" and it saved on checks. Now when I write, it's very messy and my hand gets sore. But it's still readable.

Never heard of it as an autism trait. I would have guessed it isn't, because I think some people on the spectrum would find it soothing to focus on writing neatly or would get obsessive about it. Never been one of my obsessions.

My hand writing has always been bad. I hated cursive handwriting -- despise the cursive capitol 'S' and my maiden name had two of them -- and switched back to printing as soon as I could get away with it. Part of the reason my writing has gotten so bad is that I would try to write rapidly -- trying to keep up with a lecturer (at one point I was essentially "reading" lectures, because translating to print was how I understood things), or trying to keep up with my own thoughts. Plus for some years I wrote mostly stuff I wouldn't read -- I took copious notes in school but never read any of them; I needed the process of putting words to paper but that was all.

I prefer writing fiction longhand, at least until I have the bare bones of a scene, and if I get behind on my data entry, reading it for typing into the computer can be a challenge for me.

I'm left-handed AND an aspie. And yet my handwriting is really good. I really must *be* an alien.

You've gotta love how if you're left-handed your lefty-related problems are all your own fault, just like your aspie-related ones are. Your handwriting smears, that's your fault. The coil on a notebook gets in the way, that's your fault, too. No, never because of poor-quality ink and living in a culture that makes you read and write from left to right. Can't use right-handed scissors? Your fault. The right side of your brain is more dominate, making you more creative and artistic, but your math skills and short-term memory are weaker - your fault!

Well, it *is* more acceptable to be left-handed these days. In most developed countries, anyway.

In and pencil that smear easily have been the bane of my existence since I've hand-drawn cartoons where my hand goes all over the paper. Maybe I should just wear a fingerless glove on my left hand.

When I was little, my handwriting was very large and messy. But now, it's pretty good. It varies from legible to very neat, depending on how hard I try.

Haha Mine seems to have never improved and I enjoyed learning to write. XD

My hand writing is pretty bad. People told me I write like a child. I don't really like writing since people have told me it's bad. My lines when I draw tend to be messy as well.

I used to have good handwriting, though sometimes teachers would complain I wrote too small. But my handwriting has certainly suffered as I have gotten so used to just using computers for everything. Whenever I try to 'write' my handwriting is sloppy.

I have no problem reading it. In fact I can't even notice typos in general. The only persons handwriting I've struggled to read is my own lol.

Exactly how I have always described my bad handwriting. My mind is whizzing of ahead and it's like a race that my hand always loses.

At the age of 11-12 I had to have handwriting lessons and it improved a bit . Now if I write slowly it's legible if crudely formed. I find it very difficult to write quickly though, and it significantly deteriorates. This was a problem taking notes at school.

It's an autism trait.
If you see an autistic with good handwriting then that person has just gone out of their way to practice (but wait and see what happens when they start to tire).
Yes, parts of the brain involved in that task are better in NTs.

If I make a real effort, it's readable to most people, but I have made quick notes that not even I can decipher.
My handwriting isn't pretty when I write normally.

It was pretty okay when I was about 12-16 and wrote with fountain pen and made an effort. I've been surprised by some of my old stories. But even then it was an effort, and I've been told it's hard to read by more than one person when I just write like I usually do.

good lord my handwriting hasn't improved since first grade, and i always mess up words, even typing. yet i can read at an above college level...

When I think about it, my handwriting advances up to the "not good" level. Otherwise, it's pretty "bad."