Our handwriting tells tales on us. When we are happy and we want the reader to read every word we are careful writers. Other times we simply write for various reasons, to record dates, ideas, write personal letters and often we write these in haste. No matter how careful or how careless we write, our handwriting individualizes us. in other words it tells tales on us. It does that even when we mind our P’s and our Q’s.
Our handwriting is changeable, and is subject to our moods and to our physical and our mental health, and to time limits, and especially to how well we are into the writing. If it is a chore and is something we must do, as in homework, or in filling out blanks about our medical history at the doctor’s office, our writing will not be our best.
Most criminals that write ransom and give other directions, will go to great lengths to change their handwriting. Is it possible to thwart the expert handwriting analyst? There is no way we can control the curves, the missing dots and the carelessness of absentmindedness. We shouldn’t try. It is impossible to do and unless we are writing ransom notes or other self-incriminating evidence, we shouldn’t bother; and even most criminals never get by with faking their writing.
But, with diligence and patience, and a great deal of practice, a good graphologist can detect our little secrets and, should they have a reason for doing so, show to the world the unchangeable little quirks that tattle-tale on us.
Other uses for criminal detection, other than for criminal detection, are numerous. Maybe a couple want to assure themselves they will live long together and they hire a graphologist to assure themselves they are compatible. Other uses could be in child development, and possibly in commerce. Yet, identification remains the most important use of graphology. Each person has his own style of writing and no two are alike.
How do graphologist work? Handwriting experts find out our habits by examining how we form our letters and how precise or how careless we are. If we omit certain tell telling signs such as forgetting to cross and dot letters that need to be crossed and dotted, is our writing slanted to the right, to the left, how much space do we leave between certain letters, and all the other minute peculiarities, they find out about our emotional hang-ups.
In all, there are 200 “graphical indicators”. If we slanting our letters this shows this shows how introverted or how extraverted we are. Are the letters slanted toward the right or the left, or is the writing straight up and down. A left slant tells that you are introverted, a right slant shows you are extroverted.
If the writing is up and down and does not slant, it is reasonable to suppose you are a mixture of both. Maybe a little bit extroverted with your family and a little bit introverted with strangers. I am only guessing I really don’t know.
Signatures are not too telling, the experts say. Although they are the most easy to acquire and do give glimpses of what to expect, their scantiness and their hasty execution make them poor evidence. In themselves they don’t show the whole picture. To get that, many handwriting samples are needed. In all, the graphic indicators that the analyst uses in his detection work, add up to around 200.
When one is tired or is in a hurry, it is normal practice to be more careless in how one forms his letter. He may write in a hurry and this will show. His only objective is to get the chore over. This situation will be revealed to him and if they have enough writing samples to work with, the graphologist can tell a lot more about the one who wrote all those incoherent and preposterous writing samples.
By comparing several samples the graphologist can tell if a person is faking the sample. They may know a little about handwriting analysis and attempt to deceive by deliberately writing differently. Yet, while this may work for a while, if enough writing is expected and when tiredness sets in, a reversion back to normal habits will resume.
Depending on to whom we are writing, we often try to write better and more clearly. But most of us will in time revert back to our sloppy writing habits, if that is our normal way of writing. (In front of me are my research notes and they are shabby indeed. If they were not fresh notes, randomly jotted down while researching online, a year from now I doubt if I could even read them.
What do the say about me? I have no idea what a handwriting expert would say, but I know for a fact I wanted to get the job of researching over and get in front of the television quickly; my favorite show would start in five minutes.
