Writing and personality

Although graphology is considered a pseudoscience by many, especially for its claims of being a health and psychological state diagnostic tool etc, I think some of its basic principles are true though. I get to read writings from many different students everyday, and very often their writing seems to have a correlation to their personality, according to graphological rules.

• Students from the normal technical classes often do not bother to form their alphabets legibly, have large clumsy alignments of the words, or have some pretty dramatic in-your-face fonts.
• Many of the girls also writes in hardly visible small fonts even when they are not restricted by space constraints on the page. In fact, it might be that the space frightens them.
• Given a huge piece of mahjong paper today to do group work, most of them write in tiny fonts and constantly asks about where their writing should fit into the paper. Children on the other hand will probably delight at the space and scribble all over.
• Those who takes out considerable space on the paper writing and drawing are more often than not the more confident ones.
• One kid even used a ruler beneath the pen when writing on the huge unlined paper to straighten the script - here's one who needs to impose control!

It's really fascinating to see how often their awkward adolescent consciousness get displayed on the page, or at least that's how I see it. The blank paper is indeed a fearsome thing, daring the writer to deface boldly without shame. I think that's why many secondary school children hate art.