[Hitch]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Clearly, shoot yourself to put yourself out of your own misery. (Really, we know it's always autocorrect at fault. )

Thanks, pal. I needed that.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Do you know for a fact it's a medicinal effect.

Strokes can leave a similar effect - including mini-strokes (Transient Ischemic Attack). Following a minor stroke, I was left with a problem with a specific group of words - aggravate, arrogate, exaggerate, aggregate etc. I know the word I want - e.g 'arrogate', but I will say, write or type another word - e.g. 'exaggerate' or 'gravitate'. A couple of neurologists have told me it's not an uncommon residual effect of strokes.

BR

Great, you're a huge comfort, too. Yes, my take on it, as this seemed to have come on VERY suddenly and hopefully will stop soon, is it's this prescription. (I just triple-checked that to make sure I didn't mean proscription...this is killng me!)

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I would add that that particular problem diminished over several years, to the extent that I can now say its gone - i.e. the brain rewired itself. Yet, other mental faculties (short term memory, attention span etc) have gradually deteriorated over the same period.

BR

Oh, great. You know, I think it was the V&R thread where I mentioned that according to my typo-catcher, Grammarly (FWIW, if you do a s**tload of typing every day, in browsers, it's fantastic for finding dumb typos! The grammar part--dunno and not so much. That's not what I use it for. At least, it's not WHAT I've used it for...she said, now worried...), I've typed something like 7 million words in the last few years. I write a romance novel's worth of words (60K words) every 10 days.

The LAST thing I need is to be having to check every single thing I type, to make sure I haven't made homonym errors. Or anything else. It's...god. It's just horrifying.

Hitch