My handwriting is terrible due to something that was utterly beyond my control.
When I was very young, I moved between second and third grade. The school system I had been in taught cursive writing starting in third grade...the one I moved to taught it in second grade. I basically had to learn to write in cursive without anyone actually TEACHING it to me, and as a result, it utterly destroyed my handwriting, because I wound up writing everything in the weird hybrid print/cursive style I taught myself. To this day, my handwriting is horrible, and if I want it to be readable, I have to print verrrrrrrrrry slowly and use large letters. Thank god for computers. 
I sort of had something... not similar, but not miles away, whereby my primary school was
insistent that everyone should do joined-up writing (as I still call it), so you'd lose marks if you didn't, you'd get told off, and there were genuinely handwriting exams at the end of the year. I get the impression it wasn't their fault, it was probably on the curriculum, but it was the one thing I never got right. Constantly struggled with it. Awful, awful, scribbly writing. And I kept on writing like that for years, thinking my handwriting was shit but that it'd be wrong to write any other way. Properly brainwashed - until at the end of the first year of secondary school, I got some scrap paper and wrote each letter separately, just to see how it'd come out.
Lightbulb moment. Everything
worked. Wasn't a cure, I've still got fairly scribbly writing, but it's scribbly-legible, rather than scribbly-what-the-fuck's-that. I'd spent six years or so being told repeatedly that joining all my letters up was the only way to make my handwriting look nice. Soon as I disregarded that nonsense, my handwriting
actually looked nice. Lovely.
Nowadays it's a sort of mix between cursive and printed. My primary school teachers would have a heart attack.
Ah well. Let 'em!!
Topic: What's your handwriting like DTF? (Read 11081 times)
