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LuckyCharms

(23,287 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:31 AM 8 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 8 hrs ago OP
Mine is my fat thumbs typing "i" instead of "o" EverHopeful 8 hrs ago #1
I'm so sorry... LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #3
Remember, if you go together Marthe48 6 hrs ago #11
Good thing! LuckyCharms 6 hrs ago #13
You could just use "myself". .No correction needed! niyad 8 hrs ago #2
Myself just went to the store. LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #5
Yourself is most welcome! niyad 8 hrs ago #9
Me too! Me welcome! LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #10
You could refer to yourself as Lucky Marthe48 6 hrs ago #12
LMAO! LuckyCharms 6 hrs ago #14
Yes, third person is good. Or the royal "we" ! niyad 6 hrs ago #15
My friend used the royal we Marthe48 6 hrs ago #16
One may also simply use "one". niyad 5 hrs ago #21
Simple solution. For example Pobeka 8 hrs ago #4
Thank you! LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #6
Me welcome :-D Pobeka 8 hrs ago #7
LOL LuckyCharms 8 hrs ago #8
it just makes you a poet like e.e.cummings who wrote as he pleased. erronis 6 hrs ago #17
errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's! niyad 5 hrs ago #22
You'll be fine after you read a little e.e. cummings. Harker 6 hrs ago #18
That was his pen name. LuckyCharms 5 hrs ago #19
His partner i.b. gowings is fun, too. Harker 5 hrs ago #20
And his renowned urologist... LuckyCharms 5 hrs ago #23
I'm your age, and now I'm giggling about Seymour Butz. Harker 5 hrs ago #24
Have you ever read the book titled... LuckyCharms 5 hrs ago #25
I thought I'd heard them all. Harker 5 hrs ago #26
"Falling Trees" by Tim Burr. LuckyCharms 5 hrs ago #27
"The Industrial Revolution" by Otto Mattick. LuckyCharms 5 hrs ago #28
"Fifty Yards to the Outhouse by Willy Makit, Forward by Betty Wont. LuckyCharms 4 hrs ago #31
I have all day, Lucky. Harker 4 hrs ago #33
I dealt with the same problem. lark 5 hrs ago #29
Google "shift key." Sneederbunk 4 hrs ago #30
OK, I just Googled it. LuckyCharms 4 hrs ago #32
i prefer being shiftless. WestMichRad 4 hrs ago #34

EverHopeful

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

(23,287 posts)
3. I'm so sorry...
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
8 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

(23,621 posts)
12. You could refer to yourself as Lucky
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:10 AM
6 hrs ago

(Seinfeld episode, Jimmy)

Lucky went to the store. What did Lucky get?


LuckyCharms

(23,287 posts)
14. LMAO!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:16 AM
6 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

(23,621 posts)
16. My friend used the royal we
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:48 AM
6 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
8 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

(134,663 posts)
22. errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:47 AM
5 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
5 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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