Im dyslexic pretty bad, but somehow all my letters are just uppercase and lower case at almost random but there is a pattern to my madness that im not good at explaining. Is it possible to write normally or improve my handwriting? I want to work on many projects but they require planning or writing such as a comic i want to someday do or make a video game. Im not sure what to do for those examples.

  • SkaraBrae@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I learned to write a couple of different styles/fonts for a job I had a few years ago.

    1. Get yourself a copy of the style you would like to emulate.
    2. Use a pencil and copy the font on a lined page. The lines help with proportion, size and shape. The pencil helps with pressure regulation. Press too hard and you will break the pencil: press too light and you won’t see the writing.
    3. Write slowly. Be deliberate: focus on copying the shape as precisely as you can.
    4. Practise, practise, practise. You need to develop muscle memory and that takes time.

    It’s doable, but it takes patience and time, like any skill. Good luck.

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      This is what I was also going to advise! Pick a couple of styles to emulate for a purpose and use them. In my 20s I picked up block print so I could write to my buddies in the armed forces without the censors throwing my stuff away. It also comes in handy for whiteboarding at work. If you are into game design, maybe pick a style from one of the D&D dungeon illustrations and it might come in handy for your purposes?

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          Yes that’s the specific reason they give. They’re fascists though, ultimately they just like finding excuses to throw away mail, so you don’t give them any.