I have a compulsion to learn other people’s handwriting. Not just to recognize it, but to actually learn how they make their letters. So if someone writes me a note, I will automatically start tracing and retracing their letters. I try to imagine what it would feel like to form my letters that way all the time.

Sometimes, it lets me in on aspects of their personality because I’ll recall another person’s handwriting that was similar. Then I compare them. Yeah, she made her letters really rounded and fat, too. I bet they share a common interest in sappy teenage romance movies.