Nope, my handwriting isn’t turning to shit. It’s always been shit. My grade school teacher called it chicken scratch. It hasn’t gotten much worse since then (I’m 43 now), but I don’t know if it’s really possible for it to get any worse.
RE: job applications, boy I know the feeling 
My hand is always so sore from trying to fill it out very nicely. Thank goodness most job applications have too small boxes so when you squeeze info in you can make it look like the form not you
Yes, my cursive is complete crap now. And I blame it on computers. My first few years of university not many people owned computers or printers so all our work was basically done in handwritten form. My cursive was OK back then, but since I hardly ever write by hand these days it’s become childish in the extreme.
My handwriting is not only terrible, it’s also inconsistent.
ETA: And it always has been.
I was born a leftie, but back in the dark ages of the early 60s forced to use my right hand by the blasted nuns … left is evil :rolleyes: so always had crappy writing until I got interested in calligraphy by my art teacher in 8th grade. I can write and print neatly, but my actual sig is messy as all get out.
I much prefer to type, though I hand write cards for whatever purpose.
Probably couldn’t read my own cursive now, used to win prizes too. Printing is legible, enough for a paragraph. Have been known to use “Graffitti” on occasions.
Mine has gotten much much worse as I’ve become more and more dependent on computers.
Yep, neglect-inspired deterioration. It’s gotton so bad that my work notebook appears to be in some spastic kind of shorthand. I just never have cause to write more than a few words at any one time anymore. My literary opus nowadays might be confined to the corner of a greeting card.
My handwriting is legible, but it’s gotten all…loopy. I used to have this really neat, pretty much androgynous printing, but now you can look at it and tell I’m a girl. I hate, hate, hate it. I’m trying to get better but I just don’t write enough anymore to force myself to print neatly. So yeah, computers are turning me into more of a girl. It’ll be hearts above the "i"s next.
I print everything, except my signature. And even my printing is deteriorating. If I had to actually write something in cursive, I don’t think I’d remember how.
Mine is. It doesn’t help that I hate to write by hand, so I avoid doing it if possible.
No, my handwriting has not deteriorated. It’s legible and tidy. I mostly type but take plenty of notes by hand, and weekly shopping lists are handwritten as well.
Cursive is something I never use so it’d be pretty painful and clunky. Aside from my signature, which has evolved into a bunch of spiky loops.
Taomist, is that how you hold your pen while actually writing? It looks like how I hold my pen while at rest, but when active I slide it down so it’s pinched in a triangle between my thumb, index, and middle fingers.
Started Bad, got worse, If I give you a note I will print the letters and there is a medium chance you will come ask me what it says.
My teacher, a source of great encouragement, said my handwriting looked like “a spastic chicken ran across your paper with muddy feet.” Gee, thanks Mrs. Weber. I’ll never forget how good that made me feel when you said that in front of the whole class. Bitch.
If I print R E A L L Y S L O W (almost like a kindergartner just learning) then I am almost legible. No matter how carefully I try my cursive looks like a combination of Arabic abjad and Cyrillic that has been put on a Shrinky Dink sheet and stuck in the oven.
When I first learned to type I just gave up on even trying. Can’t wait to see how bad it will get when my fingers get crippled with arthritis.
My printing is still the same at pretty decent. My handwriting seems to be going downhill because I very easily get hand cramps.
To say my handwriting had gone to shit would imply that at some point it wasn’t shit, which is not the case.
My handwriting was never pretty, but it was orderly and very readable. My notes were organized and easy to follow. Now, I can’t even read my scrawl. Someone mentioned spastic shorthand above. I’ll go several worse than that – spastic shorthand by a chimp holding the pen in his ear. I can’t even control my hand anymore. I watch in horror and fascination as it flies over and across the page, making odd chaotic dips and swoops. It’s actually begun to worry me. I have no trouble typing, however, or woodworking, so I have to think I’m OK health-wise. I just cannot use a pen anymore.
I’ve actually made a point of making my penmanship more legible after asking myself entirely too many times, “Why do I even bother to write notes to myself if when I revisit them later, I can’t even read them half the time?”
My handwriting always was hard to read. Around college, I stopped using cursive and started printing things. But it’s getting harder to read that now, too.
Mine’s gotten better as I’ve gotten older, but I’ve worked hard at it. My handwriting as a kid looked like a dictionary had vomited. It was embarrassing, and in an age where most communication is email and SMS, I felt compelled to do my part to keep the art of penmanship alive.