Handwriting

[cogitoergobum]

Happy Xmas, ed_ucate!
I've read a few anecdotal reports that people with Anorexia Nervosa tend to have small handwriting and I've just come across a case study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders about a girl with both Micrographia (small handwriting) and Hypophonia (low volume speech) which seemed to be exascerbated when her AN got

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[stacey1981]

I certainly don't fit it at all. My handwriting is huge I've even had teacher say while I don't have to worry about reading your handwriting. My sister too had anorexia and we both have almost identical handwriting. If I try to write small I just feel constricted so I can see why someone who is normally constricted would just end up writing small. I see it more as a function of anxiety and trying to be perfect rather than trying to disappear.

[circusbarre]

Interesting! My handwriting is usually somewhere in between, smaller if I'm really concentrating.

[basket_star]

Hm, my handwriting is not small atall, it's very much average, kinda loopy infact. I never wanted to disappear. Infact, (although I am ashamed and embarrassed to admit it) I always wanted the care, attention and concern of certain people, specifically successful women and medical professionals.
I do identify more with BN than AN, although I am diagnostically anorexic, I am definitely not the 'textbook' case of anorexia (if such a thing exists)..

[spiderpiggle]

interesting

[ditchinzimbabwe]

I also have small and very neat handwriting and have been diagnosed with EDNOS...because I still get my period (though it is induced by birth control due to PCOS)...otherwise, it would be AN.

I also tend to wear very baggy/otherwise not-form-fitting clothing in an attempt to go unnoticed (i.e., all of my clothes do not flatter me at all/make me stand out in a crowd). For me, it's not so much 'disappear' as much as it is to go unnoticed, esp by the opposite gender.