Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore have been exploring handwriting and children with autism and Aspergers. They discovered their handwriting was poorer than that of children without the condition.
I maintain two different ways of writing that exhibit two dramatically different results. I can write as I subvocalize, letting the words pour out my fingers. The result is almost unintellible. I often can not read my own writing. Or, I can draw my words. When I draw my words I am making pictures that represent the letters that have meaning. When I draw my words they are not only readable but notably attractive.
Having had several Aspergers aspects to my personality when I was young, I was often considered one of the two best artists in my class, worst speller, and worst penmanship. Buddy Whit Watts, was also a good artist and bad speller. There is a pattern here.
I think it has to do with being good at symbol but not at sign. As beings still mostly familiar with primary process (one time, one place, no opposites) the autistic can experience one thing representing another in a fashion that the two are the same, but they are not good at split consciousness where one thing is associated with other things, but they are not the same.
Writing is not drawing. Understanding the difference suggests an understanding of the different consciousnesses associated with the two.
