Amnesia and Handwriting

Feb 21, 2006 00:26

The set-up is this: Guy acquires massive trauma to his entire body, including a skull fracture. He wakes up (eventually) with Hollywood-style amnesia. No real medical knowledge needed there; that part's just your usual cliche. But I'm trying to stick in some genuine massive-bodily-injury details along with the made-up crap, adding artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative and all that.

So here's the question- part of the effects of the head injury is that he lost the ability to read and write and has to relearn. Would his handwriting be different as a result? Logic says it would, but since when has logic had anything to do with what really happens?

~psychology & psychiatry: amnesia, ~handwriting, ~languages (misc)

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