Handwriting | ADHD Information
Is anyone else's handwriting as out of control as mine? It looks like I'm a serial killer.I was trying to write a thank you note just now and I am so impatient and out of control that it's atrocious.
AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also have bad handwriting. If I concentrate a lot, I can print legibly.
And my husband has me send out any cards, and such because my handwriting when I concentrate is better than his.
I can only write neat when I'm really really trying, then it takes me an age. It just never stayes the same, i have no handwriting style, it changes every word, even every letter and luks rather awfull. Gud job computers were invented.If I try I can print nicely, but I usually go for speed, not pretty little letters. The funny thing is that my handwriting now looks almost exactly like it did in first grade (it's just not as big).
I can print legibly, but I should"ve been a doctor with my handwriting.Oh, mine is AT LEAST as big, if not larger than life, like my ego thinks it is. If every letter is not a masterpiece, I'm livid. I purposely purchase felt-tipped Calligraphy pens at Longs in five colors just so my writing is fun, colorful & rewarding to the eye. I do get daily comments on how attractive it is, which is nice, but quite frankly, it's necessity--if I can't have fun while I'm writing like I did in grade school then FORGET IT! Am I a child or what?P.S. BoredomKills--I am in love with your name!
hi, there!
you all are wright.
in my handwriting i also end words half, to make it easier/quicker. since we all know which word it should be, why write that whoooole word.
for ex.
crocery list by me:
airfr.
brea
tomat.
diswdet..
why write that whoooole word ? 'Cause writing's FUN!
My handwriting isn't to bad, but I notice I
repeat some words such as " I was going to the the
store when I . . ." and the obvious ones such as
transposing {sp} 'b' for 'p' , writing the first letter of
the next word at the end of the word I'm now writing.
It's the ' hand can't keep up with the brain ' sydrome
or better known as H-K-U-w-B Syndrome.
Thx, darkAngel
!i can radically alter my handwriting plus i can forge my entire families
signatures flawlessly.
i can write like my mother all neat and slightly spiky or loopy and illegible
like my father or even (and this is a feat) write like my french friend with
'backward-style' r and never ending m....
i don't even have my own writing style because i have so many to choose
from... sometimes i go for the tilted forward super-fast style and other
times the extremely upright easy-to-read type. just depends how i am
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My handwriting has always fluctuated with my moods. When I used to write a lot by hand, it was fairly neat, in my opinion. I thought it looked good, but other people would have trouble reading it. 
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sounds a bit like me, barb. I can write nice when I´m in a slooow mood, and I write awful when I´m in a fast mood. My writings can looks like it´s written by different persons depending on when I have wrote it.
In fact, I really like to write. When I start I can´t stop.......... Often I make a lot of spelling mistakes because I´m careless to check my writings.
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I can definitely relate to that scope of things with you 2. My writing changes by moods and when Im fast its sucky too. Bosses and my mother have told me that already. I have the different person phenomenon too with my writings as well. People have noticed.
I also love writing as well and can't stop and people literally have to pry me away from it and make big ruckus to get my attention. And i get rather irritable into almost yelling matches since i have a hard time switching my attention but I keep it in and stew since I dont want to hurt people that I love. But sometimes they'll tell by my face that im rather irritated and I told them its my "shifting gears syndrome". most people are familiar with that by now and understand, fortunately.
My spelling is good when im slow and deliberate, but when im fast i get errors a lot more. Or i write the same thing over again when i write at times and when that happens, I try to rephrase it in a creative way of what i was going to say. Or, I cross it out when im in a hurry or when theres no hope to save it and just continue.
I've written with permanent marker on another side of the page when ive already written with permanent marker on the back and i can't read the journal entry since it runs together. (happened quite a bit) Or i accidentally write on things im not sposed to. (Oops..................)
[QUOTE=barb]My handwriting has always fluctuated with my moods. When I used to
write a lot by hand, it was fairly neat, in my opinion. I thought it
looked good, but other people would have trouble reading it.
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sounds a bit like me, barb. I can write nice when I´m in a slooow mood,
and I write awful when I´m in a fast mood. My writings can looks like
it´s written by different persons depending on when I have wrote it.
In fact, I really like to write. When I start I can´t stop.......... Often I make a lot of spelling mistakes because I´m careless to check my writings.
I was trying to write a thank you note just now and I am so impatient and out of control that it's atrocious.
AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nah, mine loks like an old man's with ADHD.
I still don't think it's fair they call it hand writing. What about all the left handed folk?
Or what about handbidexterous folk?
Or what about handbidexedrine folk?
Nah, mine still looks like an old man's with ADHD.
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GlenW & ryan: I truly feel for you. Shame is a sh*tty downward spiral that can everything but kill you. There is no good in it & can never do anything but harm. It's a "shame" that we all have some feelings of it mostly associated from childhood, which is terrible & sad, and makes me sick to my stomach to think that some kids are still being punished by being told they should be ashamed & then humiliated into feeling shame. It sucks that yours is over something as unimportant as handwriting. It's such a petty item in the scheme of things, but I know it really matters. Don't ever apologize for your handwriting. You don't have to be a doctor to be proud of your personal scrawl--it's what makes you individual. Everyone's different for a reason & that's something to be proud of & celebrate. Try to embrace your "messiness". Look at it from God's point of view--would he be ashamed of your handwriting? I'm sure he'd find it beautiful. Try to not hate yourself over it. Life's too quick.
And as
for the lined paper, I do fine with it--I have to have my guides, but
as for margins--out the window! And without lines, it looked
like a roller coaster. But then again, GarbagePail-K (I'm
one of those bleeding hearts who can't put "garbage" together with the
word kid w/o getting upset about it), I am probably the root of all
evil to you if our tag-lines are compared!
*Cheers*
GlenW & ryan: I truly feel for you. Shame is a sh*tty downward spiral that can everything but kill you. There is no good in it & can never do anything but harm. It's a "shame" that we all have some feelings of it mostly associated from childhood, which is terrible & sad, and makes me sick to my stomach to think that some kids are still being punished by being told they should be ashamed & then humiliated into feeling shame. It sucks that yours is over something as unimportant as handwriting. It's such a petty item in the scheme of things, but I know it really matters. Don't ever apologize for your handwriting. You don't have to be a doctor to be proud of your personal scrawl--it's what makes you individual. Everyone's different for a reason & that's something to be proud of & celebrate. Try to embrace your "messiness". Look at it from God's point of view--would he be ashamed of your handwriting? I'm sure he'd find it beautiful. Try to not hate yourself over it. Life's too quick.
And as for the lined paper, I do fine with it--I have to have my guides, but as for margins--out the window! And without lines, it looked like a roller coaster. But then again, GarbagePail-K (I'm one of those bleeding hearts who can't put "garbage" together with the word kid w/o getting upset about it), I am probably the root of all evil to you if our tag-lines are compared!
I am probably the root of all evil to you if our tag-lines are compared!
LOL, terrie I am a total insomniac too!
Dysgraphia is very often comorbid with ADHD. It is most often associated with very poor handwriting. Do a google on it. I am too lazy tonight to even try.
My handwriting has always fluctuated with my moods. When I used to write a lot by hand, it was fairly neat, in my opinion. I thought it looked good, but other people would have trouble reading it.
Since I now type unless forced to write, I can't even sign my name neatly.
My handwritting is terrible and my typing words per minute are averaging 20 or below per minute. GlenW's experience of peoples reactions to handwritting is so valid for me too! A few honest souls have verbalised their reaction but most just look and their attemped control of their reaction is so obvious, even to me.
I am wondering is this handwritting thing an indicator of need to check "subtle fine motor" movement. On the question of research, i am not aware of any. Maybe some of the people who are posting over the years have come across some data on this. Hint, Hint.!
Do you also disregard the lines on lined paper???
I've read many many times about how we with ADHD have terrible handwriting. Hope someone does some research into that - it may be important to helping find us some better treatments!
Mine is awful! Always has been - my first couple years of schooling my teachers tried hard to force me to hold my hand "right" - and I could never do it even though it was a matter of shame and self-doubt for me. I held (hold actually still do the same way) my pen/pencil with all fingers around the tip - like lips on a straw. It ends up totally uncontrollable - and if I write in script even I can't read it a day later. I end up turning to printing in an attempt to clear it up - but even that at high speed looks like sanskrit or something.
Probably thats' why I take so well to typing. I can type 110 wpm on an average day - it has gotten me most of my jobs before I turned away from office work. And it improved other's attitudes about me - as they now could read what I wrote and saw I wasn't a dummy after all!
[QUOTE=bluebird38] Is anyone else's handwriting as out of control as mine?
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Not me. If I am not rushed, my handwriting looks like the letter examples the teacher put on the blackboard when you first went to school. I am very careful about it. If I am very rushed it does deteriorate but is still better than most people. This is a clear sign of brain dysfunction. My sons got better with Vision therapy when we learned he had Visual processing issues in Kindergarden. I also copied hwtears ideas. Helped a lot. Cursive was easier for us both.Things are done faster this way also. I went through some visual therapy as a child, but it didn't help. My handwriting is still horrid
I can't read my handwriting. Were it not for the invention of the computer/word processor written communication would simply be beyond me.I have horrid handwriting...I found a note from my kindergarden teacher telling my parents I needed to impove it, but it never got better
my handwriting is almost illegible. i grew up thinking being a left-handed boy was the reason.
as an adult, i hate to write much because no matter how i try, my hand just jerks all over the place. besides that, i can't keep up with the words in my mind. it's just too hard to keep my mind and my pen on the same words.
i also type like a dyslexic, always switching and omitting letters, even though i am very careful (at least i want to believe so) as i type. i have a hard time hitting the keys i intend to, often hittintg 2 at once.
my posts look good and mostly error free due to rereading and correcting several times before i hit the send button. i do the same thing with most of my talking- edit, edit edit, correct, correct, correct!