handwriting and add | ADHD Information

handwriting is still as awful as ever. They say your handwriting pretty much is locked in by the end of elementary school. So I'm doomed!

However - I find I don't keep switching back and forth from printing to handwriting like I used to. I would handwrite a sentence, then switch to block print, then lower case, a bit of handwritten. It looked like a pieced together ransom note!

I chose to email instead of write. I'd love to write - I had a friend in university who took caligraphy and it always appealed - but it's just such a chore. I get more done by typing - I can do 110 wpm and my errors are backspaced away!

I just couldnt believe it when I heard that add'ers have bad handwriting because I never heard it before but I have always had horrid hand writing.

it's a common thread jman. I feel (before meds anyway) when writing like my mind's saying "come on man!! you can do it faster!" - you seem to have the thought for the paper a couple miles ahead of the actual writing - and it gets like you are being pushed along. My writing looks like that - it seems and feels rushed on the page like I'm going way too fast.

Makes sense - when I'm in conversations the same thing happens. If someone is going too slow I try to finish the sentences. Drives anyone nuts.

Since most add'ers have bad handwriting. Did your handwriting imporve when you took your medication assuming the meds worked.

My typing gets worse off meds. That does count?

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Makes sense - when I'm in conversations the same thing happens. If someone is going too slow I try to finish the sentences. Drives anyone nuts.

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Man, isn't that the truth!! One of the reasons I love the computer so much is that I can type almost as fast as I'm thinking! Before this little wonder, I would try to write something down, and I would lose the thought before I could get it out.

sherry

My handwriting improved...MUCH! I was able to focus....when I was in design school...and I was not on meds...I could not cut a straight line...finally my professor said to hold my breath while cutting....this worked....it also worked when I wanted to have better handwriting....now on the meds...don't have to hold my breath anymore. YEAH!!!LOL . . . reading here and or on this site is just making me smile, mostly. I
too am glad for the keyboard. I have lost the ability to write cursive and
what little I do write, I print. It too looks bad as well. The keyboard makes
me look good, which I like.

We all need to feel good about that which we may. Perhaps in time, my
writing skill well return? I could handle that. I have trouble spelling as well. I
can read when a word is written wrong . . . i.e. misspelled, but for the life of
me can not type the correct letters to remedy same, without a spell checker.actually yes.. my handwriting improves dramatically when im on my
meds.. someone even told me i had GOOD handwriting once when i was
writing while on my meds!! when off my meds, my handwriting is
illegible to others, sometimes even myself.. im also left handed though,
which could contribute to that as left handers are apparently supposed to
be more sloppy!

I have awful handwriting and I tend to scramble words and sentences....which is pretty bad when I'm writing in medical records.

However, while my handwriting isn't better, the meds have made it possible for me to 'think' and keep my letters and words in the right order.....most of the time. Sometimes, it's just plain sad.

my handwriting is awful. they always predicted i would be a doctor.

can't write fast enough to keep up with my brain. or type. hit wrong keys, or 2 at once. when writing, always switching letters, or words, or starting one word and finishing with another.

the older i get, i notice little convulsions in my arms(rest of body too.) causing jerks and twitches, so that i can't even stay on the line of lined paper. kinda sucks.

I'm like GlenW, can't decide to write or print. As I usually can't find the pen I put, put, put, now where did that go?, I prefer to type...

That I can edit, and look smart, too.

Sometimes.
I have horrible handwriting and can't stand to write for long periods of time. Heck, I can't even write for short periods of time. My hands start hurting and I'm gripping my wrist to hold it completely still while I write. I'm always changing the way I hold my pen and pushing really hard on the paper and stuff like that... everything i write looks like a first grader learning to print. Vt is what improved are sons. Hwt tears is the best for this cause written by a OT therapist. You can get it for home.

I'm completly the same way. I am 23 and a female. but Anyone who has seen my handwritting would think i am a 5th grade boy. My 12 year old brother's handwritting is so much better than mine. I can't write script either. I transferred from a public school (in 3rd grade) where we were just starting to learn cursive to a private school where they finished learing in 2nd grade. So I officially gave up cursive years ago. I write random upper case in with my lower case. Now I know why I've been doomed with middle school boy hand writting. ADHD..... I can type like 80 wpm. but soon i will be writing sten-ed (court reporting) at 225wpm.

My handwriting is horrible too, plus I'm left handed.

(side note, anyone with kids who are left handed and learning to write script - PLEASE have them turn the paper to the left!!! What's so hard about that? Righties, turn the paper to the right, lefties turn the paper to the left. Thankfully, my 3rd grade teacher was lefty so she taught me correctly! PET PEEVE)

I find I write really small, as if that is going to make it neater or maybe go quicker. But, now I don't even finish my letters - a's are left open and look like u's, T's are barely crossed. You can't tell my y's from my g's or q's. 5's from S's. And I can only print - no script for me.

Thank god for typing!!!