Dissimulation in Handwriting

Study Group - May 6, 2013

Cover Stroke General

Repressed Spontaneity Repressed Emotions Hides Plans and Intentions Self-Deceptive Manipulation of Truth Avoids Facing Facts Dissimulation

Cover Stroke Upper Zone

Self-Deception Vanity Intellectual Hiding Secretive of Plans

Cover Stroke Lower Zone

Reluctant to be seen or understood Feels threatened Prevents others from knowing them Secretive of feelings Emotional hiding Emotional dishonesty Cunning Frustrated ambition

Cover Stroke Middle Zone - Garland

Self-deception Emotional inhibitions Manipulates truth Dishonesty

Cover Stroke Middle Zone - Arcade

Lacks understanding Unnatural Calculating Shrewd Sly Lying

Cover Stroke Middle Zone - Thread

Hard to pin down Avoids commitment Illusive Cunning Manipulative Deceptive

Cover Stroke Middle Zone - Angle

Calculating Sly Shrewd Con-artist

Cover Stroke Lower Zone

Instinctual inhibition Sexual hiding Material hiding Erotic dissimulation Insincerity

Arcades - General
Defensive Goes directly to the goal Secretive Concealment Ego more important than environment Unwilling to show inner most feelings Guarded attitude Covers or fails to show true intent Hidden agenda

Arcades - Flat
Hiding Unreliable Schemer Hidden agenda Plotter Secretive Defensive Con-artist Swindler

Arcades - High
Takes credit for others work Vain Receiving flattery is more important than the truth Extreme reserve Makes mountains out of mole hills Makes everything complicated and dramatic than need be

Arcades - Looped
Schemer Hidden worry Concealing Hidden agenda Self-interest Closes self-off

Secondary Thread
Hostility Unhappy with their day to day life (illegible in mid-word/middle zone) NOTE: Purpose of writing is communication, this kind of threading makes the words illegible.

Baseline - Wavy
Unreliable Moody Unstable Inconsistency Yields to outside influence Untrustworthy Dishonest

Counter Strokes - General

Egotism Boastful Bluff Vanity Cunning

Counter Strokes - Pasty

Sexual seducer Amorality

T-Bars - Long
Domineering Wasted mental energy

T-Bars - Long and High

Controlling Zealous Dictatorial

T-Bars - Descending
Aggressive Pushy Defensive Bully / Bossy Defiant Domineering Depressive Weak willed Wants own way

Fragmented Stroke Upper Zone Upstroke

Insecurity Apprehensive Fear Uncertainty Doubt about imagined events and adversity Anxiety

Fragmented Stroke Upper Zone Down-stroke

Unrealistic Reluctant to look at past Mental and psychological impairment

Coiled Forms Middle Zone

Selfish Denial Manipulative Inability to accept past or learn from it Highly secretive Leads a double life Fanatical Chronic liar

Coiled Forms Ovals

Denial Manipulative Keeps personal affairs to self Highly secretive Leads a double life Liar

Double Looped Ovals

Fences self-off Has own private world Deceives others by not talking Deceives self through ignorance Lying

Letters Omitted
Deviousness by way of omission Leaving out pertinent information

Letters Made to Look Like Other Letters

Letter o to look like the letter a and vice versa Deviousness by being intentionally vague Lack of clarity Leaving self an out Often done with numbers to confuse the person regarding the actual price

Printing - General
Reluctant to make contact Mask ---------------------- Artificial Hiding --------------------- Pretentious Eliminates emotional communications Hides behind faade of cool disassociation from feelings Overreacts Prevents closeness and intimacy Self-centered Fraudulent

Persona Handwriting
Appearance of writing is more important than the message itself True self is kept hidden deep inside He wears a mask that he has created for himself His behavior is artificial Needs to be seen as perfect Spends a lot of time on his personal appearance Needs to control everything He is ruled by fear His insecurity is his root of trying to be perfect

Signature Does Not Match the Text

Concealing Smoke screen Difference between social self and private self Dishonesty Dual nature (what you see is not what you get)