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Why do so many guys have god awful handwriting?
- Thread starter nsilvias
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I've got pretty good handwriting that has gotten me a lot of compliments in the past. Also, I've found that multiple times I've been chided by other men for having "girly" handwriting. I don't care though. I take pride in my handwriting and activity try to make it look nice. Just a fun little thing for me.
I had to practice it daily in school from 1st grade until HS, in school and at home and mi e was always shit. Everyone joked I should be a doctor. Mine is way better than my Doc, we are the same age and she's a she.
Sounds like the guys at your school didn't practice their handwriting. You have to work to make it look nice.
Girls (generally) are taught to be perfectionists so it's probably less a case of guys being deficient but girls being proficient.
When I was in elementary school I always raced to be the first student done with assignments, and the second fastest kid was a girl. Her handwriting sucked as badly as mine.
When I was in elementary school I always raced to be the first student done with assignments, and the second fastest kid was a girl. Her handwriting sucked as badly as mine.
Good handwriting here, though yeah the stereotype is usually true. It's weird when you find an outlier, this girl in our office has atrocious writing, and it's like, damn something went terribly wrong somewhere, what happened?
Well, speaking as a guy it's because it's not something I actually give a shit about. If I take my time I can write legibly but I just don't care to do so.
I don't think I've ever seen a doc with good handwriting, a few have told me they do it on purpose so that it's harder for people to forge prescriptions but I'm not sure if they're serious haha. Yah, that's what it was like for my dad (the practice I mean), he has great handwriting.
As a broad trend, probably some of it is some sort of weird mutated offshoot of ingrained subconscious toxic masculinity leading guys to think anything to do with caring about or practicing aesthetics is GAAAAAAAAYYYYY. Sort of like how a lot of guys dress like trash and are annoyed by even the concept of fashion.
But some people are just bad at handwriting no matter how much they practice. Some of it probably comes from a self fulfilling prophecy after someone told them they had bad handwriting when they were young, so they just assumed it would always be shit and never improved.
But some people are just bad at handwriting no matter how much they practice. Some of it probably comes from a self fulfilling prophecy after someone told them they had bad handwriting when they were young, so they just assumed it would always be shit and never improved.
I was inspired to give a shit about my handwriting when I saw my English teacher in high school write on the chalkboard like he was fucking JRR Tolkien or something. It's a skill like any other, and I suspect most of the reason that girls are good at it is the expectation that they should care about it.
Mine sings a lot of consent forms and lab scripts at once. I think it an easy way to sign stuff fast.
My handwriting is shit, but I can do calligraphy in snow with my pee. It's a give and take really.
Writing education has sucked for left-handers until very recently (and still sucks in a lot of places).
My handwriting isn't pretty but I've been told it's pretty good "for a guy"
As for why women usually have better hand writing, I'm guessing they just care more. I used to think it was because they wrote a lot notes back and forth in school, but I have a feeling kids don't really do that anymore, so I have no clue.
As for why women usually have better hand writing, I'm guessing they just care more. I used to think it was because they wrote a lot notes back and forth in school, but I have a feeling kids don't really do that anymore, so I have no clue.
Mine looks like a kid's who just started to write, it's super ugly. It didn't get any better now that I don't even have to write regularly anymore. I have a friend whose writing is even worse. When we traded notes in high school I always had to spend a couple of minutes trying to decipher it.
I think my handwriting looks like absolute shite but I get compliments on it.
I'm very conflicted.
I'm very conflicted.
Because I moved around a lot internationally when young and the many schools and cultures I was in flip flopped writing styles and cursive vs print and back. These days I just don't care as I type almost everything.
There are two things that are absolute non related: how good (beautiful) is your writing and how easy it is to understand the things you wrote. I am great at the second and bad at the first. Everybody looks at what I write and say that it is ugly, but if I ask them to read, they can. Some people have those beautiful rounded or italic-like handwriting, but when you need to read you dont know what the fuck is in there.
I specially hate people that write the N that looks like an M, and then the M looks like a letter that doesn't exist, with 4 legs.
I specially hate people that write the N that looks like an M, and then the M looks like a letter that doesn't exist, with 4 legs.
Just like not everybody can draw or have a gift for math or whatever.
I have one of the worst handwritings, primarily because my cursive is atrocious. I often can't even read it myself, even minutes after writing it. I can write pretty fast tho... not that that is much use in those cases.
To this day, I don't even have consistent block letter writing. Sometimes I write a "f" or "t" or "k" differently within the same sentence. It's at least readable (to me), but I'm waaaaay slower. I never learned to write fast in block letters in school, it was straight cursive pretty much. I got a 4- / D− in second grade for "handwriting" because it looked so awful.
I can type faster than most and in this day and age, that's much more valuable.
I have one of the worst handwritings, primarily because my cursive is atrocious. I often can't even read it myself, even minutes after writing it. I can write pretty fast tho... not that that is much use in those cases.
To this day, I don't even have consistent block letter writing. Sometimes I write a "f" or "t" or "k" differently within the same sentence. It's at least readable (to me), but I'm waaaaay slower. I never learned to write fast in block letters in school, it was straight cursive pretty much. I got a 4- / D− in second grade for "handwriting" because it looked so awful.
I can type faster than most and in this day and age, that's much more valuable.
This too. I changed school in third glass and I remember being thrown off for having to write differently.
I have decided that almost everyone has terrible handwriting after grading classwork, with more variance in good/bad handwriting among men.
Well it nice to finally know what's wrong with me. I line up perfectly with too many of those signs lmao
The women of my family can write beautiful cursive that unfortunately cannot be deciphered without a team of trained professionals. I forsake cursive and my handwriting, by comparison, is simple and sloppy. But even when jotting something down quickly and lazily, it's still legible.
My cursive is pretty good but my print is godawful. It always has been so I try to avoid it at all costs. It's so damn butt ugly.
Happy to have helped you.
When I saw this thread, I immediately thought "Maybe people here on ERA has dysgraphia" so I decided to mention it in this thread.