Well not everyone. But an unusually common thing is for people to be shocked to hear their own voice played back to them, and to hate it.
I despise my handwriting. I think it’s the worst I’ve ever seen. How comon is it for one to dispise one’s own handwriting? I’m guessing not, because a lot of people seem not to mind it (though some are like me - and say they despise it)
I am a little ashamed to see it up on whiteboards or on any semi-official document. My notes are not far from scribbles.
What do you think of your handwriting. State your handedness also.
I like my handwriting. After all, I’ve tried to make it nice! I try to write with a flowing, neat script that has some individuality about it. I hope it’s both legible and nice to look at.
Right-handed.
It seems to me that if someone doesn’t like their handwriting, the thing to do is work on improving it.
I think that’s more because when you hear your own voice naturally, it rattles around in your own head, instead of just being external. When you hear a recording, it doesn’t sound like “you” so you dislike it.
My handwriting always looks like mine, because I can see just how terribly I write, every time I write.
My handwriting stinks, mostly because I never cared enough to work on it. I’m right handed.
Lefty here. I don’t mind my handwriting most of the time. When I was in high school I was self-conscious about it because it was really small and cramped while most other girls wrote with big, neat, open letters. But I feel it has improved since then, and I can appreciate its uniqueness.
My handwriting sucks and it embarrasses me that it does, especially when someone else is reading it and they have to stop and ask, “Is that a 4 or a 9?”. My teachers always marked me down on penmanship. I tried, I really tried, but the fact is I just did not have the patience to maintain a neatly-written script for an entire page. The first few lines may be clear and neatly written, but by the time you get to the end it’s a scribbled, illegible mess. I put doctors to shame, and since I type most of everything these days it doesn’t really matter much to me anyway.
I’ve worked in IT since 2000. My handwriting has gotten steadily worse since then, as I almost never handwrite anything that anyone else will have to read. I also almost never handwrite anything that I will have to read later- I’m disorganized, so I try to keep anything I will need to find later on the computer, which has a search function so stuff isn’t really lost unless somebody deletes it (which doesn’t happen, because Mr. Neville and I each have our own computer, and I generally don’t delete stuff on mine).
I’m right-handed, but I have to think about it for a second if someone were to ask me which hand I write with, because I actually take up a pen or pencil and write so rarely. If they asked which hand I mouse with, though, I’d have it in a flash.
I hate my handwriting. It’s like chicken scribble. No matter how hard I try to slow down and make it look nice, I get impatient that I am wasting time. So I generally type things out. It is faster and readable.
ETA: You know when it is pretty bad when you look back on your notes months before and are like, “What the hell does that say?” It goes with my voice, because when I am emotional or tired I will mumble. So my friends tend to listen to me and then say, “English Please.” :rolleyes:
I can write well if I try but it isn’t usually worth the effort. For some off reason, I have tried to make my everyday handwriting worse over time. I learned that no matter how badly I write, I can still read it at least for the following few weeks. It is hard to make it so messy that I can’t read it. I write some words so that they are just swirls and squiggles that don’t even have many of the letters of the word at hand. It still works. Cool.
My handwriting is comically inept. I try, but I just suck at it unless I write very, very slowly, and even then it’s terrible. I must be getting Parkinson’s.
And I have to write all the time; I’m a quality management auditor, so I’m forever writing notes. Most of them are unintelligible to any other human and quite often I don’t understand them either. I have to type up the final reports when the information is fresh in my head, because I can still understand what I wrote in my audit notes; if I wait a week, I can’t tell what I was scrawling about.
Every so often, it gets weird looking (not sure why). The only time I’ve ever gotten complaints is when I was teaching little kids (1st, 2nd grade) who could barely read block printing. My slanting, semi-cursive was too hard for them to figure out - and they let me know it. Trying to print clearly is really hard.
My handwriting went to hell in college when I had to start taking heavy-duty lecuture notes. It’s never really recovered, although I can write nicely when I have to. I don’t dislike my normal handwriting, though. It gets the job done.
Originally a lefty, forced to write right-handed by a psychotic teacher. My handwriting is very unusual, being a mix of cursive and manuscript that flows more naturally than one or the other could. I kind of like it, it is very unique to me. It’s not “nice” or “pretty” but I like it nonetheless.
My voice? Oh ye gods, no. But that’s because when I hear myself, I hear the not-quite-Southern, but also not-quite-anything-else accent that I like to tell myself I don’t have.
I like my writing - I like that I can write in ten different styles if I’m jotting down notes, so I can tell where one idea finishes and the next begins without even having to start a new line. I like that I can hand-make a card or write a note that looks like I care enough about the recipient to attempt copperplate. I like that I can fill out a crossword grid clearly.
My kid is having the crisis of writing at the moment. It’s not ‘fun’, but she is *forced * to practice every day (10 whole minutes, twice every school day - quell horreur!) I think I got through to her that writing isn’t a goal - it’s a tool, and you have to learn how to use tools.
I hate my voice though, it doesn’t sound anything like that when it’s in my head.
I worked hard to develop a definite printing and cursive style as a kid, and I like my handwriting, very much. It’s tidy and lends itself well to both artistic and scientific pursuits.
I’m working up the nerve to volunteer for librivox.org and haven’t yet gotten started–primarily because I’m already cringing at the idea of having to listen to myself read!
Right-handed. My handwriting is pretty bad, but I’ve come to really like it. I’m glad I don’t have big girly handwriting.
I do wish I hadn’t completely forgotten how to write in cursive. The only times I’ve had to since leaving elementary school have been to write the “I’m not cheating, honestly” statements on the SAT and GRE. Both of those took an embarrassingly long time and a considerable amount of faking it.
I learned drafting in high school and use that same basic style when I print. When I write in cursive, it’s not a pretty thing at all. I gave up using it when I wrote love letters to my wife because she couldn’t read what I was writing. I don’t write many love letters to her anymore but I give her cards frequently and still print.