Do you ever go through a patch of not being able to spell?

[glazbagun]

This week I've been littering the internet with mis-spellings. Minutes ago I used "discression" instead of "discrecion", and have been mixing up a,i and o whenever there's been a phonetic similarity. Even on the occasions when I catch myself, I still often find myself correcting it, convinced it's not right. It's as though words stop becomming words and just return to a bunch of funny symbols. Is my brain rotting, or am I just getting old?

[glazbagun]

FFS. I meant "discretion". Living in Birmingham has made me a mong.

[G_T]

Maybe it's nothing to do with getting old or some sort of dyslexia. Perhaps you're just a retard?

[Penny-lope]

All the time

[mattviatura]

noep

[AndrewW-G]

Yes all the time, I write my responses in word and copy and paste into IE

[130R]

My grammer is always impeccable

[swiftpete]

I put it down to drinking. It kills lots of brain cells, but usually you don't notice them going, until you need to fetch a word out of your brain and the connection isn't there any more so you forget how to spell a word that you know. I think your brain must reconnect somehow, like the terminator rerouting power after being stabbed with a great big spike, but that's my non technical idea of what happens. Forgetting how to spell a word isn't really that bad, but it's the memories of good times that disappear without you even realising that are more worrying.

[halo34]

Do you know I have been suffering exactly the same problem and its getting worse.

Now to the point where I have to spell check a couple of times at work.

Not only that taken to misplacing complete words now as well - ok so maybe thats just because I am a dunce.

[becksW]

Becomming? Or becoming

[timlongs]

In my politics exam yesterday I kept putting decesion instead of decision. Frustrating!

[J500ANT]

No.

But I do get this thing where I mean to type one word, my brain is thinking of that word, and my fingers type an entirely different (but a proper) word. That freaks me some times.

[Steamer]

rufly frum wen I woz bown too rownd about nou

[becksW]

J500ANT said:

No.

But I do get this thing where I mean to type one word, my brain is thinking of that word, and my fingers type an entirely different (but a proper) word. That freaks me some times.

I'm definitely guilty of that one as well

[Lois]

Most days, hence why I have firefox spellchecker

[Famous Graham]

becksW said:

J500ANT said:

No.

But I do get this thing where I mean to type one word, my brain is thinking of that word, and my fingers type an entirely different (but a proper) word. That freaks me some times.

I'm definitely guilty of that one as well

Ditto - I call it full-word dyslexia

[Davel]

Only between 6.45 am and about 11.00 pm each day.

[pacman1]

130R said:

My grammer is always impeccable

I saw what you did their.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Yes, usually when I'm at work, when I shouldn't really be posting on forums.

[jagracer]

glazbagun said:

Minutes ago I used "discression" instead of "discrecion",

Their both rong, it's discreshon