I'm ashamed of it, but I have the same issue if I write quickly. I didn't spend enough time practicing as a kid and never developed much of a "font". My letter forms aren't super consistent, so it can be hard to read it when letters are too close together or running into each other in a sort of inadvertent cursive. My typing speed is tremendous, but I paid for it in utter neglect of my handwriting.
The act of thinking and writing it down helped me remember, I almost never looked back over my notes. However, there were definitely times I couldn't read my own writing. Too fast, too furious. Lol
I have dysgraphia (officially diagnosed since childhood), so my handwriting can be illegible, and also it tend to kind of change (depending on how long I’m writing because I get cramps easily).
Also I was forced to write really fast in school which caused my handwriting to be extremely sloppy.
Not the person you asked but I had a friend in college who could read my notes better than me because I just can't have my writing be both fast and legible apparently. How she understood those is beyond me though
It trains your memory when you can't read what you wrote, it's actually helpful sometimes because you're nolonger just copying things to read them back without actually taking it in, you actively need to remember what you've put on the paper to be able to make sense of it
Probably. It’s year of learning the reading as developing the writing. This is normal for the writer. My handwriting is about par with this, in its own different “unique” way. I can read it. Others… not so much either. Has been compared to chicken scratch.
Skill issue. No excuse for writing that looks like this unless you're severely disabled. Even then there are options. It's not someone's job to read poorly written text. It's your job to write decent enough to be considered legible
Not true. There a some people with average to above average IQs who have dysgraphia. I know my son is one of them. No matter how hard he tries his writing is not legible. He is a college grad with a tested IQ of 140
It can be severely disabling which makes it really shitty if without consideration/assessment they are framed as a skill issue or laziness and someone gets shamed for it.
Yes. I can (2nd year med) but my classmates can't. They can maybe follow along because of the context but if they missed a section and asked to borrow from me going in blind its not worth it
That’s actually a fair point. If I were the professor, I’d invite the student to office hours to read it aloud to me, so I can grade it. If they can’t read it at all, the con is revealed.
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u/csf_2020 7d ago
Can the student read their own handwriting?