really?? i had this problem too, my handwriting starts off neat and then gets messy, it has nothing to do with my hand getting tired though, i mean after i let it rest for a minute sure my handwriting goes back to normal but im inclined to believe i have a disability now.... Spoiler <a href="http://photobucket.com/images/arrested%20development%20gob" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/santaclausmachine/gob2.jpg" border="0" alt="gob come on arrested development Pictures, Images and Photos"/></a>
My hanwriting sucks, and my hans starts to wear out if I'm writing continously for a long period(if I'm riding an essay, I generally need to stop every page or so). But I think this is more to do with the muscles in my hands and fingers being underdeveloped.
Since I started writing, yes. I just dealt with it. I stumbled across the diagnosis about a year ago and it completely described my issues. It's a fine motor control issue. There isn't a physical indicator that is known. However, there are plenty of disabilities that can't be tied to anything you can see with a microscope or x-ray. Do you tell psychopaths to 'try harder'? No. But you accept that they have problems.
i wish my handwriting was that good. :grin: i should upload photos of stuff i've scribbled down in my notebook. lol i do like finding out i have disorders after i am done with school. quick story...about a year or so ago i was asking a guy i work with "hey so do you ever get numbers mixed up or letters or words mixed up?" he replied "no man, i don't." a bit surprised i say "oh...i just figured everyone did (laugh!)". i asked a few other people after that and no one else really mixed stuff up. i also like to leave out words when i am writing stuff up and my thoughts can come out very disjointed as well...so i have to go slowly and make sure i do everything correctly and in a fashion that can be comprehended. so i guess i am mildly dyslexic to go along with my add. anyhow, i do have some of those symptoms with dysgraphia, but i don't have these problems that were listed in wikipedia.
My handwriting has always been ugly, but that's because I am a guy and not a girl. Real men don't have a "pretty" handwriting. Since I have gotten used to typing on the computer all the time instead of handwriting, my handwriting has gotten even worse.
Yeah, I wouldn't discount the fact that you may have a disability. I mean it sounds like something similar to dyslexia only applied to handwriting. People with dyslexia have, for lack of a better word, normal intelligence levels among other things yet they have trouble reading, spelling, sounding and visual-verbal responses. I guess they should just try harder though.
DD, does you son have other difficulties or just writing? If the OP is just having trouble writing that i think he may have another problem....maybe it's a muscular issue, which is easily treatable... a knotted muscle or something...i just dont think something like this would only show up in writing. Maybe if you keep writing and show us when it gets really bad, then it'll be easier to notice...that sample doesn't show much, as it still fairly legible at the end and most people 's writing will suffer the more they write. When i was in college and had to take a lot of notes my handwriting got worse because i was getting lazy with the letters.
Apparently 'newfangled' is one word. Just to keep score... Xero may have it. Who knows. Good for him trying to get help with something that's a problem for him. It's not really sensible to bring other issues like cystic fibrosis etc. into this and then claim you're not comparing them. They are not the same, and are not viewed the same, whether dysgraphia is a serious/legimiate disability or some newfangled terminology that labels the differences between people and their conditions as disabilities or diseases. Swoly is right to be upset at the comparison, but those who are dismissing this as "dysgraphia is another term for lazy or apathy" are out of line in that respect... even if the condition isn't as serious as others. Penmanship is like a lawn, some people don't pay enough attention to their own, but it's nice if the ones you have to see have effort put into them. (best I could do on short notice). Typing 100wpm is fast. I wonder if that's accurate.
Not sure if DD is personally that fast but it is very possible. My mom is between 110-120 wpm and I am sure there are others faster than that.
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I average right around 100wpm. Honestly, the 9th grade typing class I took has proven to be one of the most useful classes I took throughout all of primary schooling. And, I only signed up for it because there were lots of girls in there. When I left the class I was around 40wpm, but all the typing over the years at work, in email, and yes, on here has made me blazing fast. DD
Yeah, I wasn't doubting you at all I was just saying I haven't seen you type in person so I can't verify that you are that fast. I was just saying 100 wpm is very possible.
It has been a while since my last test, so I decided to find out. Free online typing speed test I just took this test twice, once I got 85wpm and 1 error and the other time 90wpm with 2 errors. So maybe today is a bit slow, I did reverse back when I knew I was making mistakes, which slowed me some, but still not bad. DD
Yeah, I hear ya on all that, I'm just saying that's fast as I'm about 80 and can't really imagine typing much faster. (among my other fine points in the post above)
I average 120wpm, but I can type up to 140wpm. It's really kind of useless to type this fast unless I'm transferring something written to typed because if I'm writing an essay or doing homework, my brain doesn't think that fast. As for the idea of dysgraphia, I don't deny some people have more problems writing than others, but the idea of dysgraphia as a disease is a bit drastic.
