Has Anyone's Handwriting Changed Over the Years?

Three of my four children have very similar writing to me, which always baffles me when a hand-written envelope arrives.

SueDonim I struggle to tell my daughter's and my sister's writing apart when the post arrives. I can only tell by the postmark!

My shopping lists are an illegible scrawl, but I can write a lovely birthday card ?

I used to keep a book where, for one thing, I'd sign my name every year on the same date.
I noticed it changing slightly each time.
I rarely write anything now, it's all on keyboards, so lord knows what it would look like these days!

Gosh mine is awful and in school had A's for it . I could blame arthritis but it's more lack of patience and concentration after the first page. I enjoy writing though but my writing is appealing.
I sometimes will pop to the library and print a nice one there .

Appalling not appealing

Think mine has deteriorated from bold and confident to somewhat confused. Think it's not helped by writing in junior school style to my GC and somehow I'm now kind of mixing the two. Well...... that's my excuse anyway!

aggie

OH had beautiful handwriting , but it got smaller and smaller as his PD progressed it was still legible though.
I learned to write italic in Scortand , but came over to Northern Ireland aged 9 and the Nuns insisted I rounded my letters , the resulting script was and is a disaster , my Grandchildren write out my shopping lists if they are getting messages for me cos they can’t read my writing ?

Sounds like my experience - why did teachers have to mess with already reasonable writing?

My elder sister never had any of this messing and her handwriting has always been the same, very neat. Though having said that, she’s naturally a much neater, tidier person than I am anyway.

I have just thrown out some school exercise books (with much regret, although I haven't looked at them for 50 years). There were dozens of different styles of writing, depending on the teacher I was writing for but mainly which one I was using. I still can't say I have one distinct way of writing - in one Christmas card or condolence card I can write the same letter three different ways.

My mother despaired of me when I was at school. She always quoted our headmistress, Sister Edith, who had told her that it would sort itself out. It obviously never has. Sounds like they were just too lazy to spend any time on it with me. The sisters were, to be honest, more interested in drilling us to get through our 11+ which is why our parents had sent us to them in the first place.

Interesting to note that MOnica mentioned dyspraxia. That may well be my problem, as, as some may have noticed, I am always bemoaning my cackhandedness on the crafts threads.

My mother had beautiful copperplate writing, even at 98 she could write a Christmas card and address the envelope legibly and neatly. Her sewing, embroidery, knitting and crochet was also perfect.

I write quickly anyway, and also my brain sometimes goes faster than my hand ..... none of this helps with the finished product.

Mine is still like it was drilled into me at primary school-a bit embarrassing sometimes. I love to use a fountain pen - nothing quite matches that.