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LuckyCharms

(23,314 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:31 AM 15 hrs ago

This is all too much for me.

I can't anymore...

I just can't...

Do you understand how difficult it is for me, after typing out a long post, to go back and correct every time I typed "i" instead of the word "I"? For example, correcting "i went to the store" corrected to "I went to the store".

And sometimes I have to make this correction 5 or 6 times! Do you have any idea how much of my day that eats up?

How do people deal with this problem? How do you get through this? Therapy?

Maybe that's the answer...therapy.

I just can't bear this burden anymore.

No person should be subject to this kind of stress.

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This is all too much for me. (Original Post) LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago OP
Mine is my fat thumbs typing "i" instead of "o" EverHopeful 15 hrs ago #1
I'm so sorry... LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago #3
Remember, if you go together Marthe48 14 hrs ago #11
Good thing! LuckyCharms 14 hrs ago #13
You could just use "myself". .No correction needed! niyad 15 hrs ago #2
Myself just went to the store. LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago #5
Yourself is most welcome! niyad 15 hrs ago #9
Me too! Me welcome! LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago #10
You could refer to yourself as Lucky Marthe48 14 hrs ago #12
LMAO! LuckyCharms 14 hrs ago #14
Yes, third person is good. Or the royal "we" ! niyad 14 hrs ago #15
My friend used the royal we Marthe48 13 hrs ago #16
One may also simply use "one". niyad 12 hrs ago #21
Simple solution. For example Pobeka 15 hrs ago #4
Thank you! LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago #6
Me welcome :-D Pobeka 15 hrs ago #7
LOL LuckyCharms 15 hrs ago #8
it just makes you a poet like e.e.cummings who wrote as he pleased. erronis 13 hrs ago #17
errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's! niyad 12 hrs ago #22
You'll be fine after you read a little e.e. cummings. Harker 13 hrs ago #18
That was his pen name. LuckyCharms 13 hrs ago #19
His partner i.b. gowings is fun, too. Harker 13 hrs ago #20
And his renowned urologist... LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #23
I'm your age, and now I'm giggling about Seymour Butz. Harker 12 hrs ago #24
Have you ever read the book titled... LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #25
I thought I'd heard them all. Harker 12 hrs ago #26
"Falling Trees" by Tim Burr. LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #27
"The Industrial Revolution" by Otto Mattick. LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #28
"Fifty Yards to the Outhouse by Willy Makit, Forward by Betty Wont. LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #31
I have all day, Lucky. Harker 12 hrs ago #33
I dealt with the same problem. lark 12 hrs ago #29
Google "shift key." Sneederbunk 12 hrs ago #30
OK, I just Googled it. LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #32
i prefer being shiftless. WestMichRad 11 hrs ago #34

EverHopeful

(717 posts)
1. Mine is my fat thumbs typing "i" instead of "o"
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:37 AM
15 hrs ago

I've asked for patience and forgiveness from everyone I text with and they have agreed to interpret my txts with "o" instead of "i" if it makes more sense that way

LuckyCharms

(23,314 posts)
3. I'm so sorry...
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
15 hrs ago

Would you like to go to therapy with me?

Maybe if we go as a package deal, we can get a discount!

Marthe48

(23,625 posts)
12. You could refer to yourself as Lucky
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:10 AM
14 hrs ago

(Seinfeld episode, Jimmy)

Lucky went to the store. What did Lucky get?


LuckyCharms

(23,314 posts)
14. LMAO!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:16 AM
14 hrs ago

Marthe, when I can't remember someone's name, I call them Jimmy.

Man or woman. They are Jimmy until I remember their name.

A guy I used to work with called everyone "Fishlips".

Marthe48

(23,625 posts)
16. My friend used the royal we
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:48 AM
13 hrs ago

She lived on her own, so for a long time, I thought she had company whenever we talked


Pobeka

(5,017 posts)
4. Simple solution. For example
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
15 hrs ago

Me can't anymore...
Me just can't...

Do you understand how difficult it is for me, after typing out a long post, to go back and correct every time me typed "i" instead of the word "I"? For example, correcting "i went to the store" corrected to "I went to the store".

And sometimes me have to make this correction 5 or 6 times! Do you have any idea how much of my day that eats up?

How do people deal with this problem? How do you get through this? Therapy?

Maybe that's the answer...therapy.

Me just can't bear this burden anymore.

No person should be subject to this kind of stress.
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Now the stress has been transferred to the people who can't stand bad grammar!

niyad

(134,680 posts)
22. errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:47 AM
12 hrs ago

We do not want that happening to LC!!!

lark

(26,133 posts)
29. I dealt with the same problem.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:04 PM
12 hrs ago

Only mine was misspelling and adn - so annoying. I just made it a habit to always stop for a second when needinng to use the word and think a n d. After bit of doing that, the issue disappeared. Guess I retrained my fingers?

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