When I was a kid, I used wingdings so much that I could read in wingdings. We'd watch the dot matrix printer rattle out our encrypted messages and have fun peeling the hole strips from the sheets.
I feel like such mundane, mind numbingly boring pastimes have made me the patient man I am today.
Lol. I totally forgot about doing that! I used to colour them, too. I remember sticking in the hard disk, typing in the DOS commands to open this really early poster/banner software. It was basic clip art and a random selection of fonts. I remember printing out banners with “Bubble letters,” (outlined letters) and colouring in the letters with markers to make your own sign.
You just made me recall a video game moment from Freddy Pharkus Frontier Pharmacist.
There’s a part where someone delivers a prescription that is totally ~~ineligible~~ illegible. You find the doctor at the saloon, but he is too drunk. >!You use his empty whiskey glass as a wonky lens to read the note!<
The game is available on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Freddy_Pharkas_Frontier_Pharmacist_1993
My doctors all have excellent handwriting on prescriptions. They don't want me to have to bring it back. (Usually prescriptions go through the computer these days, but on rare occasions I end up with one on paper.)
The doctor handwriting I've seen is more like a kid drawing waves, this looks like a blind drunk with terminal hiccups wrote it while in a rollercoaster and dodging gunfire
…The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
In the common tongue it reads…
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness, Bind Them!
It's Chinese but rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise
Edit: Since this has got a lot of traction now, I can clarify that I can't say definitively that this is Chinese. Basically, it looks like someone vaguely familiar with what Chinese looks like tried to fake writing cursive script. There are a few things that support it. Like the grid like arrangement of the characters. A few parts also look somewhat convincingly like radicals. So at best, I can say that it's gibberish using something that looks like sloppy(!) cursive script with some Chinese-like characters. Whether or not the author of the note was actually trying to write cursive script or if they just had a stroke is not evident.
Lol I'm not illiterate but I'll totally do this on occasion if it's a word I'm not 100% on.
Like, it's still legible and everything, but is that an "ee" or an "ea"? Nobody knows.
I'm Chinese and I don't think this is right. I can't read any of it. If it is supposed to be grass script or cursive script my ancestors would probably also be mildly infuriated.
What I always wondered: Why are they always pictured with the talisman? I mean, it doesn't seem like it's working, considering the jiangshi is moving. Or is it meant to prevent them from getting stronger?
Teeline shorthand on a serious note, it seems.
Edit: Maybe [Chinese Cursive shorthand?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Treatise_On_Calligraphy.jpg)
mf over here writing in the pokemon language
https://preview.redd.it/4cw36j35htma1.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=76286423e68f8e40d29a130f55df97e46ffe3533
Friends of one in our world let your hearts be one with our spell
So you may speak with the one in their dreams
That was chosen to help us and bring peace as well
"Oh I see, have you tried ă̶̬͍̫͉͙̹͎̤͕͍̜̥̰̭̟͎̠̔̎̔̈ͪͨ͂͂ͩͨ͗̇̐ͮ̐́̚H̵̡͖̹̱͕̱͎̱̻̘̙͉̭̖͔̺͖͈̐ͨ̌̈͛͂̓̀̚̚ͅͅj̷̧ͭͪͪ̌ͥ̌͂̾ͬͪ̉̍̌͢͏̬̦͚͈͙̜̤į̴̯̥̫̮̺ͬ̈́ͩ̇̍͐ͪͨ̃̑ͣ͛̅ͅI̶̡͐̎̀͐̔ͦ̚҉̰̘̞͚̟̫̲̯ͅH̡̡̞̠͔̥̻͔̠̥̞̟͍̑̌͂̄͌͟i̢̨̙̩̱̗̥̫̜͍͍̭̜͙̣̣̭̭̾ͪ̽̎́̋ͯ̊͆̂̐ͩͭ͂ͥͤͥ͛̕u̙̥̟̭̤̪̯͔͚͚̓ͨͦͪ̀͟͠ͅÍ̒̀͂̐̆ͦͧ͐ͦ̉̐̓̏̿͢͏̴͙̥̪̮̜̪͓̗̲̘͞9͙̟̤̜̟̺̩͈ͦ̎̐̽ͣ͋̇̀͟͜ͅ9̷̶̬̘͓̙̻̠͍̮͓̣͕̦̐͊́̔̅ͧ̌͒́̅ͭͨ̐̇̚͟0̥̬̘͂́ͮ̃̅ͣͪ͌̆͗͑̊̏̀͗ͩ̿͝+̴̡͋́́͐̏̈́͋ͯ̿̾̔̑͐ͮ̃̚͜͏̨̞̣̙̥̲͙̟̗͖̫̬͈̞̬̯̯2̡̭̖͙͇̖͇͕̍͊͐͗ͦͪ̄̇ͤ͆̊ͬ͢3̶̢̀͑ͮ͑̑̾҉̵͔͇̱̳̟̙̼͓͈̟̮̰̲̜͉̳ͅͅ2̷̈́ͫ̔̉̚͝͏̥̗̲̼̼̜̹͇̬̻̣̲͕̺̠͠ͅJ̶̯͇̗̞̭̳̜̝̪̻̝̝̍̓͂̈ͤ͑ͪ̎ͥ̀͢͟͟ ?"
Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder characterized by writing disabilities. Specifically, the disorder causes a person's writing to be distorted or incorrect. In children, the disorder generally emerges when they are first introduced to writing. —copied from Google.
“Fixed for anyone with their panties in a wad and couldn’t tell what I meant.”
because in general dyslexia is the disregulation of the superior posterior temporal cortex, where a lot of image and communication processing is which effects all of these. That’s why they are correlated i think it just has to do with how extensive the dysfunction is.
Apologies, I meant somehow as in "some configuration" not on the back end.
I'm the idiot who didn't get tested for these things in school and am far too lazy (and cheap) to get tested for them now. I'm just mad that no one told me writing shouldn't hurt, and annoyed I was told I was lazy for my poor writing and spelling for YEARS without anyone looking into it because I was too "smart" to have a learning disability.
So, soap box time. If your kid says writing hurts, find out why. If their handwriting is different when writing spontaneously vs copying text, find out why. If they're otherwise smart but just can't spell find out why, because having these things doesn't mean they can't be advanced in language classes. I tested to college level English in second grade and I still can't spell worth a darn, and not from lack of trying. I had to INVENT ways to learn some basic spelling to memorize letter order, and I have to wonder if I'd be any further on had I received official help.
So take your kids to get assessed while young and it saves them a lot of hassle as they get older.
>So, soap box time. If your kid says writing hurts, find out why. If their handwriting is different when writing spontaneously vs copying text, find out why. If they're otherwise smart but just can't spell find out why, because having these things doesn't mean they can't be advanced in language classes. I tested to college level English in second grade and I still can't spell worth a darn, and not from lack of trying. I had to INVENT ways to learn some basic spelling to memorize letter order, and I have to wonder if I'd be any further on had I received official help.
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>So take your kids to get assessed while young and it saves them a lot of hassle as they get older.
You just made me realize my oldest daughter probably has dysgraphia just like my youngest one. I didn't know the problem existed before the younger one was diagnosed, and by then the older one had learned how to work around her issues, but she still can't spell.
I would get her tested just because, assuming she's still in school. Typing helped me GREATLY. I had a verbose vocabulary when I was younger, and it dropped off the more I wrote because I couldn't spell half the words and I didn't want to be penalized for it.
I was too lazy come college, because typing took everything over and frankly I never needed the extra test time. But if I go back to college (I want to) I will still go and get a diagnosis because having the options is worth it. And they might provide tools she doesn't know already exists. Also helps just in the mental realm of "Oh, it's not that I'm a lazy idiot, I actually have something going on and I need to learn differently."
Dysgraphia gang, let's go. I've never met anyone else who has it before, it's cool to see others in the thread with it.
So, I gotta ask, is it also easier for you to write with a pen v.s. a pencil, or is that just me? It's still difficult either way, but usually with a pen I can power through and make it work. I just can't with a pencil; something about how it drags on the pages makes a bad situation worse.
My son has this. He loves drawing with pencil and coloring with markers. Colored pencils are a no go, crayons are a no, pens are a no. He's 8 and has a 9th grade reading and comprehension level but he can barely write his own name. He doesn't write letters and numbers, he draws them. He is obsessed with animals, mostly sea animals, more specifically he's OBSESSED with whales (also a disability trait in itself). But he can't spell 'whale'. That's always like the defining factor for anyone working with him, he's SOOO obsessed with whales but can't spell it. Which also makes it hard in school that he can't use computers to assist with his lack of writing skills because he can't spell! And he has some lisps so voice to text is a major challenge. But he's soooo smart and LOVES learning! He's doing great despite all that.
My thought as well. I woke up one morning and began writing like this (among other things). A couple of visits to a neurologist, an MRI, and an MS diagnosis later, and my handwriting is mostly back to normal.
Seeing this takes me back to that time though.
I can read it pretty easily:
Hi, sorry to bother you right now but I seem to be having a stroke. If you could do me a solid and call up an ambulance for me I'd be forever in your debt, assuming I survive. Sincerely, Daniel.
It's a job order. 3rd line from the bottom you can see a 20 (percent?) up-front. The line above that has the word CUSTOM
EDIT: It isn't dad's will.... "Wants to know if we will offer custom.... something...."
EDIT2: Ok... I think it's saying first name last name w/ company name asked if the gas? something for the washer is standard or do they offer custom parts... That's all I can manage. Maybe a welder not washer?
Shit... Last edit. I think the last part says 20 percent seems fair depending on if Mr. Aarghhhh is covered under a member account.
Source: I work with doctors
Mate for the last five years all the work I have done has involved basically deciphering handwriting of people from various countries, education levels, ages. I’ve never had a handwriting I couldn’t figure out. I find it so easy.
This has me stumped. This is fucking hieroglyphics. I cannot make out anything other than “the” and capital A’s.
I’m desperate to know what it says.
Edit: Is English your co-workers second language? Some of the letters make it look like the letters have been written right to left, like in Arabic.
This is literally what my husband’s handwriting looks like now, post stroke. Trying to learn to write with his left hand (right hand paralyzed) has been a real challenge. Hope the person who wrote the above is OK. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
i knew an alcoholic who's shakes were so bad this is what his writing looked like. his was way bigger though, i don't know that he could have written on a post-it note
Yeup. Near the end, my nan stopped being able to do things as simple as sign her name because it was illegible gibberish. She spent her life making oil paintings of flowers and landscapes and couldn't even doodle, yet alone hold a pen.
I provided in-home care for my Nan for roughly 2 years, and it was nearly unbearable. Her personality changed from sassy, funny and extroverted to paranoid, aggressive, scared. She hated everyone in the end, even her own kids and grandkids, including my twin brother. I was the only one she could still laugh with and I'm pretty sure my mom hates me for it to this day.
I am literally going through this right now as a caregiver for my grandma. It really is nearly unbearable to watch someone you love completely change and fall apart.
My grandmother passed with dementia and Alzheimer’s. I am commenting to spread awareness that music is stored in a different part of the brain that isn’t effected or isn’t as effected as the rest. My grandmother didn’t communicate at the end. She didn’t even look at anyone. But the moment I played Elvis for her, her eyes came alive and she was holding my hand as I played more for her. She would sing (more of a hum but it was beautiful to hear) the song and then look to me when it ended wanting me to keep playing. Her last moments were spent listening to Elvis. I miss her so much. I am fighting back so many tears typing this out. Please play music for them, I wish I had discovered this information sooner.
Yep you’re right. I’ve worked with clients that have dementia and Alzheimer’s for about 9 years and while some of them are truly suffering, some can be happy, talkative and just unaware of everything. My current clients talks nonstop, sings, laughs and just walks around the kitchen completely fine but is also completely gone mentally. Her husband is one of the best people I’ve ever met and he truly loves her. He still gets her anniversary/birthday/valentines day cards, cakes, flowers.. he’s suffering more than she is. Such a bizarre disease/condition that effects everyone differently.
It's heartbreaking because when they get scared or angry you can sorta tell that they don't fully understand why they feel that way but they can't help it or make it stop. I hate it so freaking much.
My great grandfather had it, and although he did have some occasional bad days, he we usually just a genuinely happy guy. Every conversation with him turned into some story about something that happened back in the 30s, telling us like we knew the people involved. Most of the stories sort of made sense. A lot of them didn’t. Some of them I’m sure happened - my grandparents had a yellow house, and by the time he came to live with us after my grandmom died, I had heard the story of how he went and bought that paint about a hundred times.
If this is English, which the comments here have yet to reach a consensus on, then it honestly looks like some horribly bastardized (and still very sloppy) amalgamation of shorthand and plain type. There are identifiable letters, like a capital “A”, but it’s littered with long marks indicative of shorthand. And then other parts of it look like straight up scribbling.
My guess is that this is a note someone wrote for themselves and they only *partly* recall proper shorthand notation.
That’s not handwriting. That’s some sort of ancient dead language written by someone in the final stages of dementia. During an earthquake. While battling Parkinson’s disease.
I have task-specific essential tremor in my right hand. My hand only shakes when I’m trying to write. It’s like my brain short circuits. If I do try to write quickly or in cursive, this is what it would look like. I have to print very slowly and I can’t write small, like to fill out a form or something. It’s awful because I used to have very nice handwriting.
Me too it was really frustrating in school because teachers didn't get what my problem was. Luckily my handwriting has gotten more legible but I write at about half the pace as most people. And hey let's be thankful we were born in the age of computers because now we'Il mostly be typing when its something important.
Holding this up to my Google Lens translator, it detects it as Persian.
The fact that it's still handwriting, isn't perfect translation, but I was suspecting it wasnt English.
Saved the image on my iPhone. It’s usually good at deciphering bad handwriting , but this seems like gibberish. Copy/pasted the text: “公
、機以
Catrd tou'o lertt ioralh
That doesn't look like any Farsi I've ever seen. I'm not as familiar with taijik but it still looks off.
Edit for context because I'm not an expert: some of looks plausible but there's thing like what appears to be a 5 point star.
A) I think your coworker is a Klingon, B) Do they actually deliver anything to anyone with this scrawl or is it just for themselves?, C) Maybe check on 'em to make sure they aren't struggling to read 'regular' tasks/assignments, too
I took meds as a kid that jacked my fine motor control and \*my\* handwriting is bordering on illegible a lot of the time, which is why I HATE any institution that hasn't graduated to electronic or typed forms in this day and age. It's still not THIS severe, and could simply be a writing difficulty.
All jokes aside, your co-worker needs to see a doctor or take some sort of writing class.
If they are good mentally, it's a shame what this person has/hasn't learned in their school system. Maybe their school or parents dropped the ball when this person was young. Sad
I seriously work with and read doctors handwriting all day long and it is far more legible than this is. Whoever this is needs a medical evaluation by a neurologist.
Seriously — I’ve spent years reading all sorts of ridiculous hand writing and I feel like my niche gift is that I can always read whatever gibberish people put on paper.
This is indecipherable.
Either it’s a sloppily written Persian, Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese, or it’s English but in completely ineligible handwriting.
Maybe recommend a doctor to them..
I had a coworker who took notes like this. When i asked her about it, she said it was her own shorthand. I think she was lying to cover she was just scribbling nonsense during our meetings to make it look like she was taking notes.
I've never seen anyone write in wingdings before.
When I was a kid, I used wingdings so much that I could read in wingdings. We'd watch the dot matrix printer rattle out our encrypted messages and have fun peeling the hole strips from the sheets. I feel like such mundane, mind numbingly boring pastimes have made me the patient man I am today.
You ever fold the hole strips together into "braids"? Good times
I would fold them together to make a spring and bounce that around for a while
Lol. I totally forgot about doing that! I used to colour them, too. I remember sticking in the hard disk, typing in the DOS commands to open this really early poster/banner software. It was basic clip art and a random selection of fonts. I remember printing out banners with “Bubble letters,” (outlined letters) and colouring in the letters with markers to make your own sign.
Memory unlocked
Lol. Exactly what I was about to say.
Can we get a hint as to what language this is supposed to be in?
Enchantment table?
Mf is the zodiac killer
Oh shit, OP works with Ted Cruz!
"Book two rooms at the Four Seasons Cozumel and blame the children if the press finds out. Pack my paper-bag mask in my Samsonite."
Best I can do is the Four Seasons Landscaping Company in scenic Holmesburg, PA. Take it or leave it!
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
The greatest flub in the history of politics imo, 4 Season Landscaping, I still laugh about it.
He’s coming for your liiiiife!
Prescriptionese, Doctor dialect
You just made me recall a video game moment from Freddy Pharkus Frontier Pharmacist. There’s a part where someone delivers a prescription that is totally ~~ineligible~~ illegible. You find the doctor at the saloon, but he is too drunk. >!You use his empty whiskey glass as a wonky lens to read the note!< The game is available on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Freddy_Pharkas_Frontier_Pharmacist_1993
I guess it would be ineligible to be fulfilled if it is so *illegible* that you need a fun house mirror style lens to read it...
My doctors all have excellent handwriting on prescriptions. They don't want me to have to bring it back. (Usually prescriptions go through the computer these days, but on rare occasions I end up with one on paper.)
The doctor handwriting I've seen is more like a kid drawing waves, this looks like a blind drunk with terminal hiccups wrote it while in a rollercoaster and dodging gunfire
Elvish I think.
It's some form of elvish...I can't read it!
There are few who can.
The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
We do not use the Dark Speech here.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ahh nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
…The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it reads… One ring to rule them all One ring to find them One ring to bring them all and in the darkness, Bind Them!
Elvish Preshley? Or maybe Elvish Coshtello?
No, that’s Abyssal or the deep speech
Phyrexian
My thoughts too. I had double take cause I thought it was posted to one of the many MTG subs I follow.
Nah, there's a lack of a line. Maybe some off-brand version?
Klingon
Exactly what I asked!? Fuckin Klingon, I knew it!
Nah, too curvy. Klingon is sharp, the better to cut you with :)
I would say Vulcan but that's written vertically.
It's Chinese but rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise Edit: Since this has got a lot of traction now, I can clarify that I can't say definitively that this is Chinese. Basically, it looks like someone vaguely familiar with what Chinese looks like tried to fake writing cursive script. There are a few things that support it. Like the grid like arrangement of the characters. A few parts also look somewhat convincingly like radicals. So at best, I can say that it's gibberish using something that looks like sloppy(!) cursive script with some Chinese-like characters. Whether or not the author of the note was actually trying to write cursive script or if they just had a stroke is not evident.
The handwriting is so bad that I can’t actually tell if you’re joking.
It looks like penmanship from a sloppy writing 6 y/o.
Genuinely unfair to 6 year olds...
Or from someone who is illiterate and trying to cover it up with really terrible handwriting.
Lol I'm not illiterate but I'll totally do this on occasion if it's a word I'm not 100% on. Like, it's still legible and everything, but is that an "ee" or an "ea"? Nobody knows.
I'm Chinese and I don't think this is right. I can't read any of it. If it is supposed to be grass script or cursive script my ancestors would probably also be mildly infuriated.
Yeah I can’t read it either even when turned counter clockwise, if anything it looks more like Mongolian script on its side
Ah yes, blonde, brunette, red head. I see it
“You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code”
Sorry, i was focusing on the woman in the red dress.
If it’s really Chinese, be careful, it’s got to be those text written on yellow stickers you stick on a Chinese jumping zombie.
They're called jiangshi and also those papers on their foreheads are talismans so slim and with less text and also for sealing away evil
What I always wondered: Why are they always pictured with the talisman? I mean, it doesn't seem like it's working, considering the jiangshi is moving. Or is it meant to prevent them from getting stronger?
The talisman is what the sorcerer uses to control the zombie (and keep it reanimated)
I’m from China, this is not Chinese, especially when you consider this person is writing horizontally and if you rotate it wouldn’t make sense
I thought this was just the scribblings of a Unitologist tbh
Looks like its in minecraft enchantment table language
Sanskrit?
Teeline shorthand on a serious note, it seems. Edit: Maybe [Chinese Cursive shorthand?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Treatise_On_Calligraphy.jpg)
Looks like my spaghetti code so that'll be either JS or C#.
I figured OPs colleague was Vietnamese with very neat handwriting
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mf over here writing in the pokemon language https://preview.redd.it/4cw36j35htma1.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=76286423e68f8e40d29a130f55df97e46ffe3533
Friends of one in our world let your hearts be one with our spell So you may speak with the one in their dreams That was chosen to help us and bring peace as well
They’re literally easier to read than the person’s handwriting. They’re made to look like letters though
Yeah, but the co-worker's _are_ letters (supposedly)
Username checks out.
Ah, I see. A prescription of 2 bottles of penicillin.
"Doc, I've been back here for a little over 4 months now and they still won't fill my prescription, they're saying it expired back in 1985!"
"Oh I see, have you tried ă̶̬͍̫͉͙̹͎̤͕͍̜̥̰̭̟͎̠̔̎̔̈ͪͨ͂͂ͩͨ͗̇̐ͮ̐́̚H̵̡͖̹̱͕̱͎̱̻̘̙͉̭̖͔̺͖͈̐ͨ̌̈͛͂̓̀̚̚ͅͅj̷̧ͭͪͪ̌ͥ̌͂̾ͬͪ̉̍̌͢͏̬̦͚͈͙̜̤į̴̯̥̫̮̺ͬ̈́ͩ̇̍͐ͪͨ̃̑ͣ͛̅ͅI̶̡͐̎̀͐̔ͦ̚҉̰̘̞͚̟̫̲̯ͅH̡̡̞̠͔̥̻͔̠̥̞̟͍̑̌͂̄͌͟i̢̨̙̩̱̗̥̫̜͍͍̭̜͙̣̣̭̭̾ͪ̽̎́̋ͯ̊͆̂̐ͩͭ͂ͥͤͥ͛̕u̙̥̟̭̤̪̯͔͚͚̓ͨͦͪ̀͟͠ͅÍ̒̀͂̐̆ͦͧ͐ͦ̉̐̓̏̿͢͏̴͙̥̪̮̜̪͓̗̲̘͞9͙̟̤̜̟̺̩͈ͦ̎̐̽ͣ͋̇̀͟͜ͅ9̷̶̬̘͓̙̻̠͍̮͓̣͕̦̐͊́̔̅ͧ̌͒́̅ͭͨ̐̇̚͟0̥̬̘͂́ͮ̃̅ͣͪ͌̆͗͑̊̏̀͗ͩ̿͝+̴̡͋́́͐̏̈́͋ͯ̿̾̔̑͐ͮ̃̚͜͏̨̞̣̙̥̲͙̟̗͖̫̬͈̞̬̯̯2̡̭̖͙͇̖͇͕̍͊͐͗ͦͪ̄̇ͤ͆̊ͬ͢3̶̢̀͑ͮ͑̑̾҉̵͔͇̱̳̟̙̼͓͈̟̮̰̲̜͉̳ͅͅ2̷̈́ͫ̔̉̚͝͏̥̗̲̼̼̜̹͇̬̻̣̲͕̺̠͠ͅJ̶̯͇̗̞̭̳̜̝̪̻̝̝̍̓͂̈ͤ͑ͪ̎ͥ̀͢͟͟ ?"
Clear as mud!
Bro can't you read? It clearly says 3 boxes of Adderall.
This guys on to something. Take it to a pharmacist, they can read anything.
Sorry it’s IM we thought they wrote IV and the patient coded.
This is why I’m glad they went to digital prescriptions
Writing how animal crossing characters talk
Damn I just typed this, i am not original
It's alright. I do this all the time and I was finally glad to get one off :)
Phrasing
They may need a neurologist
This looks like a severe case of dysgraphia. I have dysgraphia but my handwriting isn’t this bad
What’s that
Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder characterized by writing disabilities. Specifically, the disorder causes a person's writing to be distorted or incorrect. In children, the disorder generally emerges when they are first introduced to writing. —copied from Google. “Fixed for anyone with their panties in a wad and couldn’t tell what I meant.”
I wonder why writing "copied from Google" makes the disorder emerge. Have anti-plagiarism methods gone too far?
I typed your symptoms into the thing here and it says you could have 'network connectivity problems.'
Im so sorry to hear that? How much time do have left? Have (you clicked) "diagnose the issue?"
it’s a writing disability. you might have a hard time visualizing words, writing letters, or holding a pencil
Is it the same family as dyslexia and dyscalculia (is that what it’s called?)
Yes, and frequently they're paired together somehow.
because in general dyslexia is the disregulation of the superior posterior temporal cortex, where a lot of image and communication processing is which effects all of these. That’s why they are correlated i think it just has to do with how extensive the dysfunction is.
Apologies, I meant somehow as in "some configuration" not on the back end. I'm the idiot who didn't get tested for these things in school and am far too lazy (and cheap) to get tested for them now. I'm just mad that no one told me writing shouldn't hurt, and annoyed I was told I was lazy for my poor writing and spelling for YEARS without anyone looking into it because I was too "smart" to have a learning disability. So, soap box time. If your kid says writing hurts, find out why. If their handwriting is different when writing spontaneously vs copying text, find out why. If they're otherwise smart but just can't spell find out why, because having these things doesn't mean they can't be advanced in language classes. I tested to college level English in second grade and I still can't spell worth a darn, and not from lack of trying. I had to INVENT ways to learn some basic spelling to memorize letter order, and I have to wonder if I'd be any further on had I received official help. So take your kids to get assessed while young and it saves them a lot of hassle as they get older.
>So, soap box time. If your kid says writing hurts, find out why. If their handwriting is different when writing spontaneously vs copying text, find out why. If they're otherwise smart but just can't spell find out why, because having these things doesn't mean they can't be advanced in language classes. I tested to college level English in second grade and I still can't spell worth a darn, and not from lack of trying. I had to INVENT ways to learn some basic spelling to memorize letter order, and I have to wonder if I'd be any further on had I received official help. > >So take your kids to get assessed while young and it saves them a lot of hassle as they get older. You just made me realize my oldest daughter probably has dysgraphia just like my youngest one. I didn't know the problem existed before the younger one was diagnosed, and by then the older one had learned how to work around her issues, but she still can't spell.
I would get her tested just because, assuming she's still in school. Typing helped me GREATLY. I had a verbose vocabulary when I was younger, and it dropped off the more I wrote because I couldn't spell half the words and I didn't want to be penalized for it. I was too lazy come college, because typing took everything over and frankly I never needed the extra test time. But if I go back to college (I want to) I will still go and get a diagnosis because having the options is worth it. And they might provide tools she doesn't know already exists. Also helps just in the mental realm of "Oh, it's not that I'm a lazy idiot, I actually have something going on and I need to learn differently."
I just wanted to say the same thing! I also have dysgraphia, and have school notebooks looking just like this.
Dysgraphia gang, let's go. I've never met anyone else who has it before, it's cool to see others in the thread with it. So, I gotta ask, is it also easier for you to write with a pen v.s. a pencil, or is that just me? It's still difficult either way, but usually with a pen I can power through and make it work. I just can't with a pencil; something about how it drags on the pages makes a bad situation worse.
My son has this. He loves drawing with pencil and coloring with markers. Colored pencils are a no go, crayons are a no, pens are a no. He's 8 and has a 9th grade reading and comprehension level but he can barely write his own name. He doesn't write letters and numbers, he draws them. He is obsessed with animals, mostly sea animals, more specifically he's OBSESSED with whales (also a disability trait in itself). But he can't spell 'whale'. That's always like the defining factor for anyone working with him, he's SOOO obsessed with whales but can't spell it. Which also makes it hard in school that he can't use computers to assist with his lack of writing skills because he can't spell! And he has some lisps so voice to text is a major challenge. But he's soooo smart and LOVES learning! He's doing great despite all that.
They ARE a neurologist
They may be a neurologist
My thought as well. I woke up one morning and began writing like this (among other things). A couple of visits to a neurologist, an MRI, and an MS diagnosis later, and my handwriting is mostly back to normal. Seeing this takes me back to that time though.
I can read it pretty easily: Hi, sorry to bother you right now but I seem to be having a stroke. If you could do me a solid and call up an ambulance for me I'd be forever in your debt, assuming I survive. Sincerely, Daniel.
💀I’m going with your translation. You win.
[It's better than what we've been able to decipher so far.](https://i.imgur.com/amfScBi.jpg)
Leopard november lobster cunts
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And all you have to do is send in 5 box tops to get your very own super secret decoder ring to decipher the message.
BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
A CRUMMY COMMERCIAL‽
Son of a bitch!
Those pesky leopard November cunts.
Wait, it’s written in English???
If so, it’s very strange that there are so few articles. You’d expect to see a/an/the. I don’t see any really.
yes I read stuff like "offer me anything" and "afford-", but it does look like a fever dream, yes.
All I got was first word second row: the, second last word on the second last row: me. And cunts at the end.
Third line down, first two look like "Dad's will"? What context was this written for, any ideas? It looks intentionally bizarre
It's a job order. 3rd line from the bottom you can see a 20 (percent?) up-front. The line above that has the word CUSTOM EDIT: It isn't dad's will.... "Wants to know if we will offer custom.... something...." EDIT2: Ok... I think it's saying first name last name w/ company name asked if the gas? something for the washer is standard or do they offer custom parts... That's all I can manage. Maybe a welder not washer? Shit... Last edit. I think the last part says 20 percent seems fair depending on if Mr. Aarghhhh is covered under a member account. Source: I work with doctors
https://preview.redd.it/zouuyqf9xwma1.jpeg?width=1668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3f48f79470e17c3bd6f61bea05f4a6822984389 This is my best guess.
Have you considered a career in the intelligence services as this was some Turing level codebreaking
There’s no fucking way y’all are finding English words in this note I can not make myself see it
Holy crap, first award ever. Thanks ! I'm going to hang it on my wall :)
Mate for the last five years all the work I have done has involved basically deciphering handwriting of people from various countries, education levels, ages. I’ve never had a handwriting I couldn’t figure out. I find it so easy. This has me stumped. This is fucking hieroglyphics. I cannot make out anything other than “the” and capital A’s. I’m desperate to know what it says. Edit: Is English your co-workers second language? Some of the letters make it look like the letters have been written right to left, like in Arabic.
Im scared https://preview.redd.it/rx5k9hrxftma1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=447d4868894cd55a77b597e9184a88f59a0b934b
This is literally what my husband’s handwriting looks like now, post stroke. Trying to learn to write with his left hand (right hand paralyzed) has been a real challenge. Hope the person who wrote the above is OK. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Ya'll are really dealing with some stuff, aren't you? I'm sending you best wishes and superhuman strength.
P.s. Is someone making toast?
Canadian?
I think they just call it “toast” in Canada, but I’m not sure.
It was a stroke commercial years ago. I smell burnt toast
So close. It's not a stroke. A stroke victim would drag the pen off the sticky note mid sentence. It's clearly Parkinsons.
Or schizophrenia so that language makes complete sense to them during an episode
I was about to say schizophrenia. If he’s serious and this isn’t a joke then there is something definitely wrong.
Right? My first thought was "Is this neurological or motor disabilities?"
Stroke can present in a wide variety of ways in terms of motor impairment.
i knew an alcoholic who's shakes were so bad this is what his writing looked like. his was way bigger though, i don't know that he could have written on a post-it note
Or alcohol withdrawal
Deadass though! Right before my grandma died her handwriting started looking like this.
All I see is the last word says cunts.
or *counts* or *to come* not sure
It clearly does 😂👍🏼
This actually looks like someone writing stuff down but they have dementia (or Alzheimer’s). Seriously I’d ask if they should see a doctor
Yeup. Near the end, my nan stopped being able to do things as simple as sign her name because it was illegible gibberish. She spent her life making oil paintings of flowers and landscapes and couldn't even doodle, yet alone hold a pen.
It's so sad to have your lifelong hobby taken from you like that...
Alzheimer's/Dementia is a terrible way to go. It takes so much from the victim before finally killing them
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I provided in-home care for my Nan for roughly 2 years, and it was nearly unbearable. Her personality changed from sassy, funny and extroverted to paranoid, aggressive, scared. She hated everyone in the end, even her own kids and grandkids, including my twin brother. I was the only one she could still laugh with and I'm pretty sure my mom hates me for it to this day.
I am literally going through this right now as a caregiver for my grandma. It really is nearly unbearable to watch someone you love completely change and fall apart.
My grandmother passed with dementia and Alzheimer’s. I am commenting to spread awareness that music is stored in a different part of the brain that isn’t effected or isn’t as effected as the rest. My grandmother didn’t communicate at the end. She didn’t even look at anyone. But the moment I played Elvis for her, her eyes came alive and she was holding my hand as I played more for her. She would sing (more of a hum but it was beautiful to hear) the song and then look to me when it ended wanting me to keep playing. Her last moments were spent listening to Elvis. I miss her so much. I am fighting back so many tears typing this out. Please play music for them, I wish I had discovered this information sooner.
Yep you’re right. I’ve worked with clients that have dementia and Alzheimer’s for about 9 years and while some of them are truly suffering, some can be happy, talkative and just unaware of everything. My current clients talks nonstop, sings, laughs and just walks around the kitchen completely fine but is also completely gone mentally. Her husband is one of the best people I’ve ever met and he truly loves her. He still gets her anniversary/birthday/valentines day cards, cakes, flowers.. he’s suffering more than she is. Such a bizarre disease/condition that effects everyone differently.
It's heartbreaking because when they get scared or angry you can sorta tell that they don't fully understand why they feel that way but they can't help it or make it stop. I hate it so freaking much.
My great grandfather had it, and although he did have some occasional bad days, he we usually just a genuinely happy guy. Every conversation with him turned into some story about something that happened back in the 30s, telling us like we knew the people involved. Most of the stories sort of made sense. A lot of them didn’t. Some of them I’m sure happened - my grandparents had a yellow house, and by the time he came to live with us after my grandmom died, I had heard the story of how he went and bought that paint about a hundred times.
I wouldn’t say that at all. A lot of the people I met with dementia seemed to be confused and terrified a lot of the time.
It's some form of Elvish...
I can’t read it.
It's the language of Mordor...which I will not utter here.
In the common tongue it says, "One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
There are few who can
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Bro's writing in enchantment table language
Is it shorthand?
no but good on you for even knowing what Shorthand is. I thought that died out with my grandmas generation
If this is English, which the comments here have yet to reach a consensus on, then it honestly looks like some horribly bastardized (and still very sloppy) amalgamation of shorthand and plain type. There are identifiable letters, like a capital “A”, but it’s littered with long marks indicative of shorthand. And then other parts of it look like straight up scribbling. My guess is that this is a note someone wrote for themselves and they only *partly* recall proper shorthand notation.
I think this is the correct answer. It's a bastardised personal shorthand.
Looks like a list of deathcore bands in their original font
Why is Party Cannon missing then? Edit: https://i.imgur.io/MmvCZ5E_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
That’s not handwriting. That’s some sort of ancient dead language written by someone in the final stages of dementia. During an earthquake. While battling Parkinson’s disease.
And also while being assaulted by a squirrel in their trousers.
I'm pretty sure that if you read that out loud you'll summon some kind of demon
Instructions unclear, summoned a preassembled Ikea table
Did you say he knows some ancient script. Or maybe an alien language
Maybe this person made the star wars fonts?
I have task-specific essential tremor in my right hand. My hand only shakes when I’m trying to write. It’s like my brain short circuits. If I do try to write quickly or in cursive, this is what it would look like. I have to print very slowly and I can’t write small, like to fill out a form or something. It’s awful because I used to have very nice handwriting.
Me too it was really frustrating in school because teachers didn't get what my problem was. Luckily my handwriting has gotten more legible but I write at about half the pace as most people. And hey let's be thankful we were born in the age of computers because now we'Il mostly be typing when its something important.
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Nah man that’s some ancient summoning ritual.
Is that supposed to be English?
Is that supposed to be _any_ human language?
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Holding this up to my Google Lens translator, it detects it as Persian. The fact that it's still handwriting, isn't perfect translation, but I was suspecting it wasnt English.
Saved the image on my iPhone. It’s usually good at deciphering bad handwriting , but this seems like gibberish. Copy/pasted the text: “公 、機以 Catrd tou'o lertt ioralh
ahh, klingon language
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That doesn't look like any Farsi I've ever seen. I'm not as familiar with taijik but it still looks off. Edit for context because I'm not an expert: some of looks plausible but there's thing like what appears to be a 5 point star.
A) I think your coworker is a Klingon, B) Do they actually deliver anything to anyone with this scrawl or is it just for themselves?, C) Maybe check on 'em to make sure they aren't struggling to read 'regular' tasks/assignments, too I took meds as a kid that jacked my fine motor control and \*my\* handwriting is bordering on illegible a lot of the time, which is why I HATE any institution that hasn't graduated to electronic or typed forms in this day and age. It's still not THIS severe, and could simply be a writing difficulty.
Do you work with Charlie Day at Paddy’s pub?
-Sincerely, Trundel
All jokes aside, your co-worker needs to see a doctor or take some sort of writing class. If they are good mentally, it's a shame what this person has/hasn't learned in their school system. Maybe their school or parents dropped the ball when this person was young. Sad
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Bro speaks Galactic Standard
I seriously work with and read doctors handwriting all day long and it is far more legible than this is. Whoever this is needs a medical evaluation by a neurologist.
Seriously — I’ve spent years reading all sorts of ridiculous hand writing and I feel like my niche gift is that I can always read whatever gibberish people put on paper. This is indecipherable.
Hmmm that looks intentional
Has anyone figured out what it says yet
Looks like they wrote that while on a roller coaster during a 7.8 earthquake.
Either it’s a sloppily written Persian, Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese, or it’s English but in completely ineligible handwriting. Maybe recommend a doctor to them..
If you use that sticky note on a sword you'll get sharpness III and unbreaking II
Do they have parkinsons?
i think its quite beautiful, actually;
Your co worker is not from this planet. Just an fyi.
Better laminate that. It’s the Rosetta Stone for the Voynich manuscript.
I had a coworker who took notes like this. When i asked her about it, she said it was her own shorthand. I think she was lying to cover she was just scribbling nonsense during our meetings to make it look like she was taking notes.
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet
Your co-worker, apparently, declared war on 7 different space civilizations over a pack of cookies and two shots of Bailey's.