Has the way you sign your name changed over the years?

Not really; my Social Security Card from almost 60 years ago looks like my signature today.

Nope. Sloppier on the electronic pads but otherwise the same.

A special thanks go out to Sister Mary Anne for my great penmanship! (p.s. The ruler bruises have almost healed WHACK!!!)

Not really.

gawd yes! Messier by far!

Yes.

Now I sign everything Batgirl .

I think it’s legal for everything except FedEx packages.

Yes. I think about it more or less the same way, but what my hand does has changed, and the time since I was taught certain moves for cursive letters is now measured in decades rather than years.

I mostly always disliked writing in cursive, and I almost entirely stopped using it (in favor of printing) as soon as they stopped requiring it for homework in 5th Grade.

Right now I don’t know if I could even sign my name, I’ll let you know when I come down.

@RayaHope What’s going on? Are you ok?
My writing is pretty much the same. A bad scrawl.

@chyna Oh, I’m more than fine right now. I had a VERY good, no GREAT friend save my life today and I am flying so high right now that I can’t even see the ground!

Yes, my signature altered a great deal at about age 30. I have no idea why.

The way I sign changes by situation. Depending on how serious i take the signature it could vary from a perfect cursive rendition of my name to sort of a half-asked part of my first name’s first letter and then just a wavy line and a few iterations in between.

Well, not being facetious, it changed a lot when I got married. It used to have a nice forward flow, but my new last name required a shift in direction and added an awkward ending. Took years for me to make it feel natural.

When I was a junior in high school, I decided that I didn’t like my handwriting. So over my last summer in high school, I carried around a notebook and devised new forms for all my cursive characters, especially the capitals. Then I practiced them with serious diligence until I had mastered them all. I remember even doing that while lying on the beach.

I still use most of those forms today.

My mature signature with married surname has not changed much in the past 4+ decades.
 

@RayaHope, I’m kinda worried about you.

My signature hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years but I have noticed that it doesn’t flow as easily as it once did and I have to think about it more, especially my first name. At school the focus was on making your signature legible and I never developed a style beyond that. It’s a pity as signatures can be quite beautiful and artistic.

I have always had bad penmanship. At one point I decided to give up on cursive writing and just connected letters when it was convenient. This affected my signature.

@LostInParadise Funny story is after so much writing cursive in Catholic Grade school I forgot how to print when I went into public school. Teachers were like, “Please print your answer”. I had to learn how to print again when I was a teen.

My signature is the only things I do in cursive. I stopped writing in cursive probably in high school. I was offered a student job in the college library because the director liked my printing.