I just noted an article about bad handwriting with autistic spectrum kids. My father is ambidextrous and has terrible hand writing. My handwriting was always the worst thing I got grades in….
…unless I drew my words. If I wrote while thinking I was drawing, my handwriting comes out unique and pretty. In addition, I could write almost as well with my left hand if I was also “drawing” the letters rather than writing them.
I’m not sure what this means as regards autistic spectrum, but perhaps a shift to visual from symbolic provides leverage as regards communication. This may have something to do why gesture is easier and faster to pick up than speech. Then there is the theory that gesture preceded speech, which seems very possible to me.
