Mines horrible. I've seen what your taking about in Russian. Don't know it myself, but I'd be screwed if I had to use it
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My handwriting is intirely dependent on the writing tool. Pencil/fountain pen is fine, but biro not. More about how flat I can hold the utencil-- the flatter the better.
Drawing is different, I have to sketch from the paper, rather than a mental image etc
Mine is terrible but that might be the autism lol, that also makes handwriting go terrible
pretty good actually! mines focused on readability, the trade off is speed and lack of connectivity between letters
My handwriting of the English alphabet (my native language) is quite readable, though I only print and stopped using script/cursive a long long time ago. When I studied Japanese in college, though, I struggled mightily to remember and write the characters. (Only talking about the simpler katakana and hiragana βalphabetsβ here, not kanji which are difficult for everyone due to sheer quantity.)
Practice technique and you will get it!
Oh, I'm sure. I have picked up other non-Latin scripts before (Hebrew was interesting), I was just wondering if it is something that other folk with aphantasia find difficult.
Yep my handwriting is awful. Aphantasia affects all sorts of brain regions involved with visual memory, always wondered whether handwriting is connected.
Nothing special except that everything I write is very tiny, apparently. That might be related to confidence, according to some, but I don't think it's necessarily true.
On the other hand, my handwriting becomes much more 'precise' and pretty while on ADHD meds, but that's not related to aphantasia.
One more thought: when I was little, I had very bad fine hand-to-eye coordination and struggled a lot with scissors in kindergarten LOL
I have allways had horrible handwriting. But I think it has more to do with my autism and adhd which make it hard to form muscle memory and at the same time make me dread repetitive tasks like the drawing of letters that I had to do in school. I had some trouble learning to touch type too but it was much easier and now writing is effortless. It's like the difference between dragging your self over the ground using only your arms and riding a bicycle.
My handwriting looks like a spider fell into an inkwell, clambered out, then had a party on a page.
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