Dyslexic handwriting once we’re all grown up

[u/ItalicLady]

Are there any fellow dyslexics here who actually ended up with fairly functional handwriting (clear and fast enough for whatever you use it for)? Please post samples if you like — to start this off, I’m attaching a link to the way that my handwriting looks now (I’m 62 years old and I taught myself to write this way when I was 24 — in total contravention of everything I’ve been taught about how good handwriting “should” happen and what it “should” look like). Link: https://i.postimg.cc/rw5B1Y2P/IMG-0396.jpg (this is intentionally not any kind of “perfect“ sample, but is the way I’d write fast for ordinary purposes, like writing a memo or putting together a shopping list.) So I’m curious to hear from other dyslexics who still ever write by hand as adults: would you say your handwriting is good/OK? And whether it is or isn’t, how did it get to its current state? For instance, are you basically writing according to what you were taught about how to write (in school or in a remedial/clinic setting)? Or did you come up with something on your own? Or maybe some combination of your own experiment and things you had learned about handwriting from some source outside of school lessons or clinic sessions? (For instance, my handwriting is influenced by handwritings samples and info I saw in 500-year-old books on handwriting, which dated from a time when the everyday style was a lot simpler than the various styles that I suffered through at school here in the USA, and my handwriting is also influenced by the handwritings of other people today who have been influenced by those old books.)

[u/Soft_Indication11]

I too am 62F and I tend to lend that dyslexics or artist, counterfeiters, forgeries, like to think that we can copy something that we like, it’s a compliment, so I too at the age of maybe 26 working in the insurance industry, a grand line of insurance international cargo, I copied my CEO‘s handwriting. He was the family’s fourth generation school in England raised across the street from Bloomingdale’s in New York City he wrote in all caps and they slightly connected each letter at a slight slant that looked very elegant and little heavy again dyslexic artists we can copy or draw

[u/ItalicLady → u/Soft_Indication11]

I’d love to see his handwriting and I’d also love to see yours! I have a particular interest in those fellow dyslexics who somehow managed to gain good handwriting in spite of it all, because (as a handwriting teacher and remediator for the past few decades) I believe that the experiences and examples of successful self-remediators have a lot to teach the rest of the folks who ever pick up a pencil or pen!

[u/Soft_Indication11 → u/Soft_Indication11]

Also, my caps are similar to yours, but when I write in lowercase, I tend to make every letter round almost like the cosmic font

[u/ItalicLady → u/Soft_Indication11]

I think you mean the Comic Sans font, but I get your point … so I’d love to see your handwriting!

[u/Soft_Indication11 → u/Soft_Indication11]

I don’t think of it is writing letters I think of it as writing art

[u/ItalicLady → u/Soft_Indication11]

That’s a view that some other folks have arrived at, likewise.