My 5s are apparently unreadable for most people. Whenever someone asks me what that sign or letter is on anything I wrote I will say it's a 5 without looking. They'll say how I didn't even look. But it's always correct.

Same

I draw the "top" of my 5's with a separate line to help avoid this. Also I cross my 7's and Z's. If it's just a jumble of alphanumeric characters, I'll cross the 0's and add the serif to 1's.

My 5 wears the top line like a floating hat. It's frustrating even to myself

I went to Bangor, A55!

Same, I can't write a 5 in one smooth motion, when I try to it ends up looking like an S.

Missed opportunity for "5ame"

Yeah, I just like to sketch every letter... it's totally on purpose.

Fun fact: these pens don't actually erase, they just use heat to become invisible

They are so freaking good. I can't just write the letters in the right orders for the life of me

That is my daily driver pen type too

I just rip it up and start over. I figure it looks too suspicious.

For me it’s:

9 looks like 0

0 looks like 9

5 looks like S

6 looks like b

I've picked up a habit to (sometimes) write in all caps. On the flipside, I've picked up some strategies to differentiate letters and numbers from each other:

• 1 would have the top serif if it needs to be differentiated from lowercase l.
• 2 would start like a question mark, and then continuing on with a horizontal line, something like: ʔ︭
• 5 would be written in two separate strokes, the top one from left to right, and the second from top-left straight down, then a semi-circle going clockwise
• 6 would be written in one smooth stroke from top-right going counter-clockwise down, then up halfway, then intersecting itself at the bottom rather than bottom-left. (Kinda like φ)
• 7 would have the middle bar (differentiating it from a 1)
• 9 would have two strokes, first is a loop starting from top-right counter-clockwise almost meeting itself; second stroke goes from where the first one ends straight down-left-ish
• 0 would have a light stroke going from top-right to bottom-left
• D would be two strokes, kinda like this: |>
• I would have the top and bottom serifs
• J would have its top serif and its tail emphasized and angular, kinda like this: ˧˩̅ (I really hope the unicode characters show up properly)
• S would have its upper part smaller, and its lower part larger and more emphasized, so that it'd look more like a coiled snake.
• U would look like my lowercase u (with the right vertical downward stroke).
• V would be written in two strokes: top-left to bottom, and top-right to bottom.
• X is also written in two strokes: top-left to bottom-right, and top-right to bottom-left
• Z would optionally have the middle bar (Ƶ), but it usually doesn't need it to differentiate from 2

I'm likely past the mid point of my life and still waiting for the day when I wake to find myself imbued with this sort of audacious level of confidence.

Me: "I'm lonely. I'ma find a gf or bf."

One terrible marriage + divorce later

Me: "I'm lonely. But I'm too scared to find a gf or bf. What if it turns out like last time?"

Every oamn time