I finally caught my own handwriting quirk after 30 years

So I was digging through a box of old school papers my mom saved, stuff from like 4th grade and middle school. And I noticed something funny... my lowercase 'a' used to look completely normal, like the typewriter kind with the little roof. Sometime around 10th grade it just turned into a circle with a tail, the way you'd write it in cursive. I honestly never even noticed the switch until I saw them side by side. What tipped me off was trying to read a note I scribbled about a bike repair last week and I couldn't tell if it said 'brake' or 'broke.' Had to ask my buddy to decipher it. Has anyone else found old notebooks or letters that made them realize their handwriting changed without them knowing?

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holly_craig23d ago

Respectfully disagree, I think noticing that just means you paid more attention today than you did back then.

the_jesse23d ago

Man that brake vs broke thing hits WAY too close to home. My handwriting got so bad somewhere in my 20s that I accidentally wrote "soap" instead of "soup" on a grocery list and ended up with a bottle of dish soap in my pantry. Must've stared at it for 10 minutes wondering why I bought it. The wild part is I swear my letters stayed the same, but looking back at notes from high school they look like a completely different person wrote them. Maybe our hands just get tired of forming letters the same way for 30 years and decide to take shortcuts without asking our brains first.