how many different handwritings do you have?

i have about 10 handwritings i could detect up until now and variations on these.
some are very different in size and right- or left-justified (hope it is the right word) and just "style".
i am right-handed, but i have left handed writing as well.
figured out, that i have been left-handed as child as in therapy with modelling paste i am left-handed and a toy cat where i have early routine touching the face and scrubbing the nose movement is left-handed and sucked left thumb as child.
i have periods i write a lot on paper, but periods i cannot write (no ability, also on PC).
so i have more "writings" from age i cannot write (times i try writing but no ability also on PC).

i am not diagnosed DID/DDNos but confirmed having "strong dissociative disorder". whatever it means.

how many different handwritings you have?

For me I have undiagnosed DID.
But my system has been co-con for years without to much time loss.

For my system I have only figured about 3 handwriting styles
Charlie: Charlie handwriting is neat. He usually puts a heart above his i.
Barry: is extremely messy large and bad spelling. (he has literacy issues but is improving on them )
And my own messy similar to the previous host Nel.
All left handed.

I think having different handwriting is cool as well validating. I, unfortunately, only have one- which is my own.
However, you can see slight variations of it. You can usually tell between the guys and the girls. The girls have big neat handwriting that has soft/round points/edges, while the guys tend to have small sharp writing. Also, some have slightly better or slightly worse cursive than I do. It varies really often anyway.

Angel: Well, we have 22 different alters in total, so I reckon we have 22 different handwritings. Lol. Everyone has their own handwriting, though some do look similar. Mine is a relaxed cursive sort of thing. Alice's is very old fashioned cursive and looks like a font. Alexa's is very disordered and messy (but she has dysgraphia). Riley 1's is child-like simply because she's a child alter. Love makes her letters thin and tall and close together. Diana's never stays on the line and is a little scribble-like, but it's still easy to read. Riley 2's is very bubbly and large, and she uses hearts to dot her letters or punctuation. That's just a few, but we all have very different handwritings.

We have many different handwritings. Not all of them all legible. At work people can't identify who wrote our notes because our handwriting is so changeable. Our notes from the hospital in which we signed things, the doctor pointed out that each paper we signed had a different signature.

We also have different gaits.

I have at least three different hand writings that I know off, all right handed. I'm writing very much so I can't keep track of everything I've written... within the last two weeks even. But I have found strange notes here and there in my apartment that I've written but it doesn't at all look like I've written it, nor can I remember doing so.

Not all of them all legible

From a quick glance in my communications journal I see about 30 different hand writings (probability tells me this is not everyone though). Some of them are from younger kids and not at all legible, some are neat, some are messy, some are left handed, some are right handed, some are tiny, some are big, some use capital letters, some use interchangeably capital and non-capital letters, some only capital letters, some have cursive handwriting that's really beautiful, some have cursive handwriting that I can barely read at all and so forth. It's really interesting.

We also have different gaits.

Us too.

I think most alters have the same handwriting as I do.
I noticed in the journal that Christine tends to write in huge caps.
Also the littles write different.
But only Christine has written on the diary, I always forget to and it seems that the others don't want to.
-Tom

Probably 15-16, because of 20 of us, the three youngest can't write, Sphinx would be unlikely to write while in the body, and the handwriting of the twins is pretty similar. As a system, we've made lists of things to buy at the store and it's obvious that each item added by someone is written in different handwriting. The choices for what to buy are from fewer of us, though and someone 10 or older will determine what's needed and tell whoever's out something like "hey, write down 'sponges' on that piece of paper, I'll tell you how to spell it."

The general shapes of the letters are probably more consistent than not, as if we all "learned" in the same classroom. There is undoubtedly a shared area of the brain for how to write. Our system has been one where we've mostly gone into hibernation so that each person's writing is based on how each alter wrote when that alter went into hibernation mixed with how I, the host, have come to form letters when printing. Now that I think about it, I should ask everyone to write something in their own handwriting to test all this. I think the styles would be more divergent than might occur from asking a non-multiple to create 15 uniqe and consistent styles, but less divergent than 15 unrelated persons writing samples.

What I have found interesting is how increasingly under control the handwriting becomes. Since we have someone at every age from 3 to 11, except 7, it's easy to compare their increasing writing ability. Watching the range of young alters write -- or do anything that requires manual dexterity -- is one of the key things that reminds me over and over that we have DID.

I used to be able to write in messy toddler handwriting by switching to it, which was kind of entertaining. Others saw me do this and sometimes it got a laugh or they thought it was cool. What was written was what I wanted to have written but I now wonder if it wasn't Little John stepping forward and writing, since he was around for quite a while but never called attention to himself. The struggle over holding and controlling the pen or pencil was just part of "the game" as far as I saw it, what I told myself was what I was doing in order to make the writing look real. But why did I even choose to write like a small child and why was it always the same handwriting?

If we're co, then one of us can control the right and one the left and either draw a picture two-sided together or write a word, one together. For example, I can start the beginning of a word and Ellie start the end and we can meet in the middle. It's a fun party trick. We can also write the name in cursive with both hands at the same time. That kind of freaks people out. Sometimes it's fun to do.

Similarly, we can do this chopsticks and other eating utensils. For some reason that especially weirds people out.