Handwriting

I have crum­my hand­writ­ing. It isn’t par­tic­u­lar­ly illeg­i­ble, it just lacks char­ac­ter. I’ve not writ­ten in cur­sive [apart from my sig­na­ture] since 3rd grade, when we stopped get­ting grad­ed on it. I’ve print­ed ever since, and to this day there is still some­thing rather juve­nile about the way my words appear on paper.

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I think graphol­o­gy is pseu­do­science for the most part, but I do feel that some infor­ma­tion can be gleaned from the exam­i­na­tion of hand­writ­ing. So while graphol­o­gy is bunk, foren­sic doc­u­ment exam­i­na­tion I’ll buy.

I think the lim­its of foren­sic doc­u­ment exam­i­na­tion only per­mit peo­ple to deter­mine whether or not some­thing was writ­ten by a par­tic­u­lar per­son. My writ­ing is all over the place, thank­ful­ly not as bad as Char­lie Brown, my let­ters don’t have a par­tic­u­lar slant right or left, the space between let­ters and words varies, the size of let­ters varies, noth­ing is very con­sis­tent. So in order for some­one to forge some­thing pre­tend­ing to be me, they’d prob­a­bly have to prac­tice quite a bit.

Grapho­log­i­cal­ly speak­ing [quack quack]:

1) In gen­er­al inter­prta­tion of writ­ing it may be said that the left direc­tion is inter­pret­ed as the direc­tion towards the moth­er as well as the past. Left slant writ­ing is seen more often in women than in men. We often see left slant in peo­ple who have a dis­turbed bal­ance in the paran­tel equi­lib­ri­um. Writ­ers with left slant are gen­er­al­ly much clos­er to their moth­ers. The upright slant is found in peo­ple who are very inde­pen­dant in life. They tend to have no incli­na­tion to either the moth­er or father. Whol­ly upright hands are very rare. In fact this may only be achieved by a show of dis­ci­pline. The right slant is the most com­mon and and most nat­ur­al slant. The right slant is found in peo­ple in a hur­ry, impa­tient peo­ple and the active writer.

2) Some­times writ­ers words are wide­ly spaced and at oth­er times nar­row­ly spaced. We may say that this writer is unsta­ble in both think­ing and emo­tions. When most let­ters are uncon­nect­ed it shows a per­son who is an ego­cen­tric. Lack of end strokes indi­cates a shy per­son. When the first let­ter stands apart it shows a cau­tious per­son.

3) The size of a let­ter is indica­tive of the writ­ers self reliance. A let­ter may extend in four direc­tions, up, down, right or left. A let­ter may also be tall and wide. Tall cap­i­tals are peo­ple who tow­er above the rest. Tall ini­tials come from impres­sive peo­ple. Small cap­i­tals are peo­ple who are mod­est in nature. They con­cen­trate on facts, not ideas. Wide let­ters are extro­vert­ed peo­ple. Nar­row let­ters come from lon­ers.

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