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LuckyCharms

(23,378 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:31 AM Jun 8

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

EverHopeful

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

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

(23,378 posts)
3. I'm so sorry...
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 08:38 AM
Jun 8

Would you like to go to therapy with me?

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

Marthe48

(23,736 posts)
12. You could refer to yourself as Lucky
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:10 AM
Jun 8

(Seinfeld episode, Jimmy)

Lucky went to the store. What did Lucky get?


LuckyCharms

(23,378 posts)
14. LMAO!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:16 AM
Jun 8

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

(23,736 posts)
16. My friend used the royal we
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:48 AM
Jun 8

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
Jun 8

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

(135,291 posts)
22. errrrmmm. .Do not forget that he was confined at St. Elizabeth's!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:47 AM
Jun 8

We do not want that happening to LC!!!

lark

(26,138 posts)
29. I dealt with the same problem.
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:04 PM
Jun 8

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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