Weird biological stuff...

[msfledermaus]

When I was about 12 or so I stumbled onto an old book that had some writing in it from my biological father. I was amazed and a little disturbed to see that our handwriting was very much alike. (I had never seen his handwriting until that day, so it wasn't a learned similarity.)

Now that I'm an adult, my handwriting is a strange combination of that handwriting and more recently some similarities to my mother's writing.
(I do her flourishes now at the end of a signature, something I never did before.) I'm a little amused by it. How much of that is watching my mother write, and how much of that is biological? And then there's quirks of my own embedded in there too. Even my typing's quirky--when I learned in class I stubbornly shifted my right hand over one letter so I could reach all the punctuation on the right, and got points knocked off for it. How much of that stubbornness is encoded, and how much is just me being a willful brat? *grin*

Any thoughts on the subject? Have you thought about your handwriting that way; as a signpost to someone else's personality?

Comments

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

My daughter and my little sister write very similarly. My son's drawing looks very much like his dad's but his handwriting doesn't.

And very strangely...Kevin and my ex-husband's handwriting looks the same to me.

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[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Wow...that's really weird about Kev and your husband's handwriting. I wish I remembered more about a handwriting personality book I read once. I wonder what it would say?

VA

[(Anonymous)]

My V looks more and more like my mom's - and hers looks like her mom's.

I like that you have quirky typing.
:)

Re: VA

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I like it thoo...I luff my quirky typink.