Your Handwriting Quality?

[wrath186]

I have to take legibility over beauty. I'm left handed and my cursive handwriting has always been horrible. As a result, I have to print out everything. It's the main reason that I started using FPs in the first place.

[napaxton]

I am amazed by the awful handwriting I see coming from intelligent, educated people--and vice versa. I am not speaking of calligraphy, which is as much art work as writing. No, I speak of the everyday writing we do--grocery lists, short memos, notes to ourselves and others. Do you like your handwriting? Do you make an effort to improve it?

I've gotta admit that I have a PhD from a ridiculously snooty university (I try not to be such, where possible), and I have AWFUL handwriting. So bad that in high school, I switched to printing. And that's pretty awful too. But my handwriting is worse, and makes me look like a 10-year-old.

 

I've got pretty bad fine motor control, so if I tried to write nicely, I'm think it might get worse.

 

But it's really no reflection of my intelligence, I think, anymore than my aversion to other types of neatness. I hope. =-)