Scruffy hand-writing
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Ki3r said:
How are you with spelling?
My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
My spelling is ok and always has been, it's just the actual writing words and letter down that looks messy.My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
Robbo 27 said:
I have never tried one but this ball point pen looks to have some basis of sense in that it makes you hold the pen in a certain way.
It may be worth trying.
https://www.thepencompany.com/product/penagain-erg...
Interesting...for that price it's worth a punt.It may be worth trying.
https://www.thepencompany.com/product/penagain-erg...
Robbo 27 said:
I have never tried one but this ball point pen looks to have some basis of sense in that it makes you hold the pen in a certain way.
It may be worth trying.
https://www.thepencompany.com/product/penagain-erg...
I thought I'd wondered onto the Anne Summers site for a moment!It may be worth trying.
https://www.thepencompany.com/product/penagain-erg...
Ki3r said:
How are you with spelling?
My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
Could I have dyslexia? I sometimes miss words out, mistype words or miss letters.My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
Reading as well I can miss a whole section out without actually seeing it until I go back and look again and it's like the whole section has magically appeared!
My handwriting is all terrible, which I'm not sure is relevant to me also being a lefty. I don't hold a pen all gammy like in that photo but all communication I do day to day is via keyboard, I can type way faster than I can write nowadays.
What didn't help is that I went to a quirky little primary school that taught you to write in a stupidly over the top joined up way. Which meant when I hit secondary school and didn't have to adhere to the militant, 1800s joined up style, my handwriting went downhill.
What didn't help is that I went to a quirky little primary school that taught you to write in a stupidly over the top joined up way. Which meant when I hit secondary school and didn't have to adhere to the militant, 1800s joined up style, my handwriting went downhill.
Seem to be lots of lefties here, am I in a minority as an indecipherable right hander? 
Robbo 27 said:
I don't know what my handwriting says about anything let alone about me.Ki3r said:
How are you with spelling?
My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
I used to do that at school as well as I couldn't spell for toffee as I'm dyslexic. I had a couple of years worth of effort from the school in the remedial English class to improve my hand writing but it is still rubbish, spelling did improve though. I can print words reasonably neatly if I take my time (I'm effectively drawing the letters not writing them) but writing at any normal pace or joined up and it'll need the NSA to decrypt it. My handwriting is terrible when it comes to words I don't know how to spell. I've recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, and the scruffy handwriting is a way of hiding being bad at spelling.
I'm also left handed, and have the paper at a 90 degree angle.
My writing is atrocious, I too get the wife to write cards, fill in forms etc.
From school age it has always been a mess and has slowly got worse as I've become older, I've tried to neaten it up but it's such a ball ache and I just don't have the time or patience to do so.
I have become the butt of jokes at work and at home amongst my family, it's just water off a ducks back to me though, I rarely hand write at work as most of what I do is PC based, however if a customer asks me to jot something down for them, I usually pass them a pen and paper and ask them to do it; I've become very adept at working out when someone is going to ask me to write something down for them before they ask so a pen and paper is presented to them before they get the chance.
I am a righty, however I also do alot with my left hand and my youngest is a lefty; perhaps I'm left handed and was forced to write right handed when at nursery/primary school and it just hasn't worked for me, or maybe I'm just lazy and can't be arsed to write properly.
From school age it has always been a mess and has slowly got worse as I've become older, I've tried to neaten it up but it's such a ball ache and I just don't have the time or patience to do so.
I have become the butt of jokes at work and at home amongst my family, it's just water off a ducks back to me though, I rarely hand write at work as most of what I do is PC based, however if a customer asks me to jot something down for them, I usually pass them a pen and paper and ask them to do it; I've become very adept at working out when someone is going to ask me to write something down for them before they ask so a pen and paper is presented to them before they get the chance.
I am a righty, however I also do alot with my left hand and my youngest is a lefty; perhaps I'm left handed and was forced to write right handed when at nursery/primary school and it just hasn't worked for me, or maybe I'm just lazy and can't be arsed to write properly.
I have bad handwriting as do both my kids. One child was recently diagnosed with Dyspraxia and both me and the other child test positive for many dyspraxic symptoms.
One of these is fine motor control, and that means hand writing. Some days mine is so bad that even I cant read it. Op may be on the dyspraxic spectrum?
As other have said, fountain pen can help, but the secret is the right pen of whatever type, you just have to try lots until you find the best for you. My son likes a particular type of gel pen, my daughter is better with a regular ball point, for me its fountain pen or papermate "Inkjoy"
One of these is fine motor control, and that means hand writing. Some days mine is so bad that even I cant read it. Op may be on the dyspraxic spectrum?
As other have said, fountain pen can help, but the secret is the right pen of whatever type, you just have to try lots until you find the best for you. My son likes a particular type of gel pen, my daughter is better with a regular ball point, for me its fountain pen or papermate "Inkjoy"
My handwriting has always been awful, in grammar school (many) years ago I had a couple of special lessons to try & help me with it to no avail.
My spelling is fine, just my writing, in fact I've never been able to write joined up.
My signature is also awful & regularly gets commented on.
My spelling is fine, just my writing, in fact I've never been able to write joined up.
My signature is also awful & regularly gets commented on.
Peanut Gallery said:
My writing is easily confused with where a spider fell into the ink-pot and ran across the page.
Slowing down helps a lot, or type it up and print....
My Dad described mine pretty well like the above. Except he said the spider fell into some whisky first.Slowing down helps a lot, or type it up and print....
I am right handed. He was a leftie. His handwriting was nowhere near perfect either....
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