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Especially over the last few months I've been noticing my ability to spell has gone down the drain big time. I find myself typing words into google to get corrections because I just can't seem to get the words right!
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and then , of course, there is the problem with then than affect effect etc.... those swim in my brain. used to be non issue.
and of course there is just plain writing the wrong word. sometimes they are sort of close in how they look , if not in meaning, like superb and suburb. but other times there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to how my brain came up with it.
you are not alone !
I go through stages where I cannot recognize words that I often use. For instance the word ''toy'' may be incomprehensible for me for a month or two even when I see it in print or hear it spoken, then suddenly I have no trouble with it. As if the link to that tiny bit of data is blocked.
Hi Rusty! Another Brisbanite. I do hope I don't develop that symptom. It wouldn't surprise me at all tho.
There seems to be more ME/CFSers on here from Brisbane than any other part of Australia.
What gets me is when spell checker says there is a spelling mistake and I can't see it, I end up googling it and staring at the word and then at my post for ten minutes trying to work out what the difference is. Most times I just copy it over to my post to avoid the effort.
Another things is knives and forks. Instinctively you should know which hand holds which. But for periods of time (usually over a month) I sit down to meals where I just sit there swapping them from one hand to the other trying to work out which goes where. Not only cannot I not remember, but I can't feel what is right. Bizarre, like two different mechanisms or types of memory fail at the same time.
> Does anyone else find their ability to spell is completely messed up?
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