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Can you do joined up writing?
Mummiepig · 04/03/2022 19:33
I can't, I have neat writing but I print, I really struggled at primary school my work was a mess in cursive unless I took absolutely ages, I just couldn't figure out where the pen was going next
When I went to secondary school I started printing again, my work was very neat and no teacher ever commented on it
Just wondered if it was an autistic thing?
BoardLikeAMirror · 04/03/2022 19:47
Yes, I can. I had very, very untidy writing until the age of about 10 (whether joined up or printing) but then I learned to do different handwritings depending on what it was needed for - i.e. to write neatly for school.
My natural writing is small and I've been told it looks masculine - i.e. it's spiky rather than rounded, I think they mean. It's not very legible to others. But I can 'do' almost any style of handwriting now, I can also mirror-write very easily with either hand.
I often mirror-write as a way of soothing myself when stressed. This backfired when I was at some awful work conference and we were asked to make notes on a presentation. I mirror-wrote mine ... and then we were asked to hand them in, as the people wanted feedback. Fortunately I hadn't put my name on them - goodness knows what they thought.
LilyRed · 05/03/2022 12:01
My writing was so unreadable, that when I was seven my mother made me learn italic writing so now many years later I still write in a calligraphic style - if I put my mind to it - also had no problems studying calligraphy as part of my Art AO level (it was the late 1970s!) as it just came naturally.
If I don't focus it is still scrawly like a drunken monk attempting to write a manuscript. 
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