ive been meaning to get around to analyzing Taylor's writing,
here it finally is, so hooray!
and this analysis should be fun too because
I dont know hardly anything about her personal life
I just know the surface level stuff
I am not a Taylor Swift expert so
this was very very fun so here we go!
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I'll quick say my disclaimers
when I analyze writing, I'm describing what the writing would indicate to me.
im not necessarily describing the writer.
although I've been doing this for a while so usually the traits do
hold up pretty well but- yeah :D
if my analysis describes the writer- great. if not- great.
ok now:writing!
the first thing that I can't not mention
is the consistent backslant.
I talk about backslants all the time but its just super apparent
in her writing so I have to talk about it.
consistent back slants like this are a huge indicator of past trauma
or repeated trauma.
and because of that the writer is most likely more emotionally withdrawn
than someone without a backslant would be
there are other traits that indicate trauma as well, so
if you've experienced trauma but dont have a backslant,
dont freak out, back slants are just a pretty significant
indicator of past trauma for me.
hope that makes sense.
along with the backslant, this writing actually has a couple other concerning traits
stacking up as well.
but ill start with the ones that aren't as concerning first.
We've got decent spacing between both lines and words.
the space a writer leaves between words
indicates how close or how distant they keep to other people
and the space between lines is a similar concept too.
I mainly notice how distant her words are from each other though
which tells me that its probably very hard to get close to this person
regardless of if they were a celebrity or not
next im going to be looking a little closer at the personal pronoun I
for a sec because there are just some things happening here that ive never seen before
so the you look at her baseline,
if its not flat, her writing usually travels on an upward incline
which is an indicator of optimism, friendliness.
but notice every time she writes the personal pronoun I,
the trajectory of the lines are all on a downward angle
downward angles indicating pessimism
also even though her personal pronoun I has a pretty wide base,
its still pretty short alot of the time
especially in certain samples.
the thing about personal pronoun I's is they indicate how the writer subconsciously sees themselves.
so it gives me an idea of the writer's self-worth.
so with these indicators of pessimism and just, smallness
and making yourself small,
id wonder if thats reflected in the writer's self-esteem aswell.
that's just one indicator of self esteem issues,
but there's another one ill talk about too
but just so you know why im bringing them both up,
im bringing them both up not to rub it in anyone's face
or be repeating myself but
I bring them both up because when you're working on an analysis at home,
you need to be finding more than one indicator of a trait to make it worth mentioning.
because a trap that you might fall into, that ive fallen into before
is you might see a trait that indicates
lets say, depression for example.
and you get so excited that you recognized the trait,
that you ignore all the other traits which
lets say, all indicate confidence
so you fail to recognize,
"oh the writer has insecurities, but overall, is most likely a confident person"-
instead you take that one trait out of context,
and say:"ah yes! the writer is probably depressed!"
and then the writer is like- "uhhh... no."
we make mistakes, we learn :D
where was I?uh OH okay
ok lets talk about the other concerning trait
lets look at her signature.
she just writes "Taylor".
first name. no last name.
thats pretty common for celebrities.
it just means they want to be their own person.
usually inconsistencies with the last name
indicate something something going on with the writer's relationship with their family
but in this case, especially with celebrities,
I find its just people who want to make their own name for themselves.
but thats not really what interests me.
im looking mostly at... this.
notice the name getting crossed out by itself
thats never a good sign.
and people who have this trait will always be like, "oh-
"thats just how I do it, I do it on purpose!"
but ... ehhhnnnhnhnnnnn no
no. maybe? there's a possibility that your an exception
but the vast majority of the time
this would indicate self-loathing, depression,
and possibly s*icidality.
especially if it used to be not crossed out,
and then it becomes crossed out.
especially if it becomes more consistent.
for these writing samples fortunately its not a consistent thing,
so its most likely not this constant feeling
of "I hate myself"
because if you look, she doesn't always cross out her name.
sometimes its less, sometimes not at all
so what id gather from that is
out of all 4 times I see her signature,
if im basing this hypothesis im gonna make just on signature,
id hypothesize that she was probably feeling her lowest when she was writing this sample.
and funny enough when you read the content of the note
which I dont usually do.
I dont usually read the samples im analyzing
but if you read it, I'll read it now.
"criticism of my performances has been the biggest source of pain in my life."
"I sometimes feel like my college degree is on acting like im ok when im not."
so yeah she's talking about some pretty vulnerable stuff.
next ill mention how its kindof half cursive, half print.
I always get alot of questions in the comments about
what this mean because its a very common trait.
if you write in a mix of print and cursive,
so there are 2 ways that I know of currently that you can mix print and cursive.
option 1:
like this. like Taylor does.
very normal.
option 2: mixing print and cursive like this is not as normal.
(quote on quote "normal")
this second way of mixing print and cursive where
you switch, like every other word is cursive,
or like every 3 words is print.,
mixing print and cursive that way, thats a little different.
thats actually a sign of moodiness, explosiveness, unpredictability-
but this first way, this way that Taylor demonstrates
is quite normal.
because as a child, you learn to write disconnectedly,
in print. you learn to write letter by letter.
so as you get older often your writing gets more and more connected
unless you chose to stick with print.
but generally your writing gets more connected as you grow older,
so alot of people will have this half print half cursive
way of writing
so this is just a sign of maturing.
oh and her writing is pretty curvy too,
not too many angles so, friendliness.
but conclusion time!
ok to sum it up on Taylor,
looking at her writing, id hypothesize that this is a person
who is friendly and mature,
but they definetly have some issues with their self-esteem,
they also seem like the type to push people away naturally
given the space between the words
so that probably makes it hard for them to get help.
I also think they've gone through significant trauma
with the backslant and you know,
experiencing significant trauma, this alone makes it harder
for a person to know how to express their emotions to others
so I dont think this makes things easy on this writer either.
id also wonder if the writer has ever experienced suicidal thoughts
or some pretty intense depression
just looking at what we saw in that signature
mixed with the other traits that are stacking up.
like this person is probably very "fine" like
like on the outside,
on the outside you'd probably never expect them to be feeling the way they're feeling but I think they are.
even with that friendly, optimistic exterior,
that still doesn't change what they've gone through
and how they feel about themselves and their self-worth.
so . ok thank u for watching <3
thank u Taylor Swift for putting your handwriting on the internet <33