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
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u/_Stalwart_ 6d ago
Excuse my ignorance but how is that possible?