Hi, I’m Lasky.
I was born in Guasave, Sinaloa. Life could have gone very differently for me. I live in the United States now, and I’m aware of how fortunate that makes me. I haven’t faced the kind of struggles many people grow up with.
But everyone carries something.
For me, it was always my handwriting.
It sounds small. Almost trivial. But it followed me everywhere.
In school, teachers took away my recess for weeks because I couldn’t “fix” it. I tried. I rewrote pages. I slowed down. I focused harder. It never became neat enough. I still lost the recess.
As an adult, that insecurity didn’t disappear.
The worst moment is when I have to sign something — a check at dinner, a receipt, a contract — and someone is watching on their screen while my name forms in real time. My handwriting is messy. Uneven. Chaotic.
And it still embarrasses me.
The strange part is: I love stationery.
I own Blackwing 602 pencils. Fountain pens. A $40 alien UFO pencil pouch from Japan that I absolutely love. I care about paper weight. I care about balance and grip and ink flow. I genuinely appreciate beautiful writing tools.
But every time I bought something high quality, I felt guilty.
Like I didn’t deserve it.
Like good tools were meant for people with beautiful penmanship.
Like I was wasting money because my writing didn’t look “worthy” of it.
I never saw a brand for people like me.
People who love writing but don’t love how it looks.
People whose thoughts move faster than their hands.
People who cross things out and scribble in the margins.
People who were told to “fix it.”
People who couldn’t.
I was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, and that experience forced me to look closely at how small insecurities shape confidence over time. Writing has always been one of the ways I process my thoughts — even if it looks like chicken scratch.
That’s where this brand was born.
Chicken Scratch Co. exists to remove the guilt from writing.
You don’t need perfect penmanship to deserve quality tools.
You don’t need aesthetic notes to enjoy stationery.
You don’t need to fix yourself to participate.
This is for messy minds.
For overthinkers.
For scribblers.
For people whose handwriting will probably never be “good enough.”
Messy minds make beautiful things.
Welcome to Chicken Scratch Co.