Handwriting dysphoria?

[ChaoticTribe]

From what I have seen, no one's handwriting looks very girly unless they draw huge rounded parts of the letters and make the straight parts as tiny as possible, and then round the sides on letters like "L" and "T". If a letter is in correct proportion and doesn't have little loops coming off the bottom of it, then it really doesn't look girly at all to me. For example have you seen people who will write a lower case "d" and they make the bottom circle take up almost the whole letter, and just a teeny line comes over top? That's kind of girly, but draw the straight part longer and it stops looking girly. If it would be at all possible, just try not to draw tiny little tops on your "b, d, h" and not to make the bottom too small on letter "p".

As for my own handwriting, yes I used to draw pretty big and round because it took up more room on a paper and I used to have teachers who would say "Write ten pages and don't double space" so I made my letters wider to compensate. Now I have gone to making them skinny so they look normal.

[AdamMLP]

I'm feeling a lot better about my handwriting at the minute, but I've just realised how vaguely ridiculous it is to have a thread about it without actually showing any of you it.  This is it currently - as I said before it does change a lot - although probably slightly messier than usual seeing as my hands feeling a but fussy because I just electrocuted myself with mains through it a little while ago (long story, basically I wasn't thinking when I decided to plug the motor of a food mixer in without the plastic casing).


Just a random passage from the book I'm reading at the moment.

[ChaoticTribe]

That really doesnt look girly to me. In fact it is similar to mine when I do the proper skinny letters

[poptart]

Some individual letters look girly when you isolate them, but I don't think people are that analytical of your writing. Overall - if you just look at entire page - it doesn't seem girly. You have to look closer to see that, and be actively looking for femininity otherwise you wouldn't notice it.

That's my perspective at least. And I'm not trying to give false positivity to make you feel better, I actually mean it.

[PixieBoy]

Mine's messy and ugly, with uneven letter sizes and general awfulness. Some "girly" touches show here and there, such as loops on letters due to the cursive lettering training I recieved in school having wormed its way into muscle memory. Teachers have on several occasions asked me what I've written, and I've recieved bad marks on tests due to poor writing looking like misspelt words (an a, a c, and an e can look quite similar when I write them). It took some time for me to learn how to write in lowercase letters when I was little, so maybe that's why I have such awful penmanship. In my previous school, they used to tell me I wrote like a boy.