Has Anyone's Handwriting Changed Over the Years?

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Appalling not appealing

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 .

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!

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 ?

Blimey I can’t spell Scotland!

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 ?

Mine has gone down hill in the last few years. I don't write much now only birthday and Christmas cards really.

My spelling has also deteriorated. I blame my phone for that!

So is my spelling!!!

My is now appalling, due to RA.
I taught handwriting to pupils and prided myself on my blackboard writing, I also did calligraphy for a hobby. Sometimes when I go back to read something, I can't decipher it. Thank goodness for word processing!

Mine is appalling now because of osteoarthritis and Duputrens contracture. My writing is now a scrawl but there is nothing that can correct it. I can still garden draw sew and string pearls so that's something.

I am naturally left handed, but mum was of the generation which thought left was sinister!
So i was forced to write with my right hand. Unfortunately, part of that is missing, so i was on to a loser straight away.
I had some form of electro therapy to help me write, but she still considered my writing worse than a spider sprawl.
Funnily enough. I'm a decent enough artist, even with a wonky hand!

Oh yes. I used to write as a secretary with a Mont Blanc fountain pen. Now I use cheap biros it's more of a scrawl than handwriting. My mother's improved with the use of biros and ballpoints- though hers was always a lovely loopy handwriting.

Mine was still neat until I broke my wrist.

There has never been a time when my writing was anything other than an illegible scrawl. Teachers tore their hair out over it. Even in the VI Form they were getting me to try different techniques to try to inmprove it.

In my 40s, I discovered why. I am mildly dyspraxic. Discovered when DS was having physiotherapy for the same reason. I was prescribed special exercises

This improved my handwritng a bit. It started sloping forward rather than back and writing became easier.

Since this dramaic change noting much has happened. My writing is still illegible still looks messy, but is forward sloping enthusiastic inllegibility instead of a backward leaning reticent illegibility.

My handwriting rather depends on the speed that I need to write....a quick list is a bit untidy but when writing a greetings card I do take more care.
My late Mum had beautiful handwriting; she wrote me a short note some months before she died, I'd taken her and Dad out for the day and she wrote a thank you note. I still have the note to this day.

Mine hasn’t changed much - still a fairly messy scrawl.

It never recovered from a change of school at 9 (had to go from modern round cursive to old-fashioned loopy) and again at 11, where we all had to do italic.,

I well remember a teacher’s comment in red - ‘Writing MUST improve!’

By the time I was early 50s and doing OU courses, I was so unused to handwriting, I had to make a real effort to practise, in order to be able to write 4 legible essays during a 3 hour exam.

My handwriting as a youngster used to be ghastly, apparently a sign of anxiety which was the case with me. When I got older I made a conscious effort to better it, it’s ok now, but I still admire those people who have a naturally beautiful handwriting.

My handwriting is the same Starlily it's appalling and for no good reason. I think faster than I can write so need to slow down but no great improvement. Must do better

Mine was never great as a left hander but arthritis in my hands has made it look even worse.

Mine hasn’t changed much. My Dad wrote beautifully all his life - he could paint and draw too.