Thread: how's your handwriting

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Victorian cursive is actually quite hard to learn effectively for children with problems such as dyslexia. I can say this as my daughter is dyslexic amongst other things.

So am I. I went to school and learned cursive script in the 1950s when dyslexia wasn't even defined AFAIK. Matter of fact for years I used to say displexia ...... thinking I was correct, until a friend pulled my coat.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

So am I. I went to school and learned cursive script in the 1950s when dyslexia wasn't even defined AFAIK. Matter of fact for years I used to say displexia ...... thinking I was correct, until a friend pulled my coat.

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic tattoo artist? He gave the customer a tattoo!

Originally Posted by JBHoren

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic tattoo artist? He gave the customer a tattoo!

Long as he charged him. Lyle Tuttle says that the unpardonable sin is not charging enough for a tattoo .......

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Funny

A few years back I realized that from being in the finance side of the Auto Biz that I had "Block Printed" for so long on applications etc: I could no longer write, I mean I had to really think about how to even form the letters like we had been taught back in 2nd grade..
So I went and bought a nice leather bound Journal, and a couple of actual Fountain pens and began keeping a daily journal, not really to capture my thoughts but to practice real handwriting..
It took months but I actually feel it is acceptable again

I had a similar issue. I spent years working in the security industry and written reports had to be printed in the first instance, and had to be legible for use in a court of law. So everything I wrote was block capitals. I. too have had to retrain my brain and may hand in writing cursive as well as lower case print. I can tell you it has been a struggle, but I did get there. I'm going to have to post a picture of my handwriting when I find a few moments to do so. I'm proud of it, even though it isn't that great, but I know how far it's come.


Mick

I believe I have the worse handwriting of all members in this forum.
Sometimes, I find even myself unable to read something that I wrote moths earlier.

lol, that isn't the worst I have seen. One time we were trying to figure out what this doctor ordered to put it in the computer. We had to call the doctor back to the floor, and he wrote a new order because he didn't know what it was lol. Mine is like this.

Slur, your hand writing is acceptable and I could easily read it.
I don't even dare post mine! It's far more worse than yours!

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I am a lefty, who, if left.to his own devices will print in a combination of block capital and lower case as the whim takes me.
I have to hand write some stuff for work, but if I don't concentrate it.is basically illegible after a couple of.days (when I can't.even remember the gist of what I meant). So now I try really hard to print carefully in Lower case.

I am with you, lefty and my handwriting is horrible.

Originally Posted by Slur

I believe I have the worse handwriting of all members in this forum.
Sometimes, I find even myself unable to read something that I wrote moths earlier.

I used to take crime scene notes and then have to go directly back to type them because the next day I could not understand them.

My folks went as far as private lessons for my hand writing. Didn't take.

Like Ed I am a lefty and my writing is a lot like his as well. I combined my printing style with that of my late stepfather who learned draftsmens style printing. I'm okay with it, however I wish I could write well, especially now that the engineered school system is no longer teaching it. I may try and follow Glens example and get a journal to practice in. Really saddens me that our society is dumbing down with writing and reading and grammar and manners and.............oh bother.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Like Ed I am a lefty and my writing is a lot like his as well. I combined my printing style with that of my late stepfather who learned draftsmens style printing. I'm okay with it, however I wish I could write well, especially now that the engineered school system is no longer teaching it. I may try and follow Glens example and get a journal to practice in. Really saddens me that our society is dumbing down with writing and reading and grammar and manners and.............oh bother.

Oh bother indeed, but what can we do but sit down with a nice tea and hot, buttered crumpets and let the worries of the world wash over us like a tide of misfortune that will eventually receed away from us provided we can hold firm like rocks well bedded in the earth, and not get dragged back into the ocean of dissapointment.