11 Oct 2007, 4:02 pm
Krexie I don't think I'm dyslexic, but I can offer this:
I love the keyboard. My thoughts go straight from my brain onto the keyboard and into text at an extremely rapid rate. When I'm really on a roll - a lot of caffeine and in my groove - I can do 75-85wmp from a dictation tape, faster when it's coming from my head. I don't typically reverse letters in typing, unless I'm very tired or partially distracted by noise in the room or something like that. I do not watch the keyboard when I type. But I've had a LOT of practice typing - many, many years.
On the flip side, when I try to handwrite things it's an entirely different scenario. I have to labor over each word, and constantly switch letters around. Quite often I'll be writing one word and a letter from a word further down in the sentence I intend to write pops in there. Sometimes I can't get the letters to form correctly (check my handwriting in the thingy I scanned for Postie earlier in this thread - that's my best writing and it took me several tries). Sometimes the pen or pencil literally just flies out of my fingers in the middle of a letter and pops down on to the floor. It's extremely aggravating! I usually go through three or four post-it notes before I have one that's legible enough to put on a document to forward to another desk.
Thank gawds for email and word processors!
(I remember school with fountain pens and ruled notebooks, and no erasures allowed. It was absolute hell.)I'm not dyslexic, either but I have the same problem as you, Krex. I find I switch letters, miss letters and even miss entire words. I've decided it's because my brain goes far faster than my fingers. They just can't keep up so I don't hit the keyboard hard enough and I skip words while I'm typing. It's freakin' annoying and it usually takes 5 minutes just to write a short post because I don't like making spelling and grammar mistakes.
11 Oct 2007, 4:28 pm
11 Oct 2007, 4:29 pm
I was wondering that exact same thing.
I would suspect the lungs wouldn't take it too well. 
I didn't really think much about it because the depths of stupidity a person can sink to doesn't surprise me anymore.
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11 Oct 2007, 4:56 pm
Your descendants would be left with a nice life-casting of the inside of your lungs.
They can also make counter tops out of them too.
11 Oct 2007, 5:12 pm
Your descendants would be left with a nice life-casting of the inside of your lungs.
They can also make counter tops out of them too.
What did I miss and why are we sniffing these hypothetical shavings?
Two more health related questions.....
(This has been my listening to NPR day
)Anyone else concerned about consuming food/drink from plastics due to the synthetic estrogen(and other hormones) in them(Did you know they think mens wees maybe be smaller in the recent generations because of this 
)They also included the plastic lining in canned foods and PVC pipes that carry many of our water supplies to us(Not that I actually drink anything as mundane as tap water without the added toxins of a plastic water filtered pitcher.
How about the long term effects of aspertame?Some interesting new research about it's mimicing effect of "suger" and resulting effect on release of insuline....(Wouldnt an added increase of insuline release without calory intake result in me losing weight???It's not working
)
Another one....If my alergys are a result of an over active immune function....should I be avoiding things like Vit C and multivitamens that increase my immune function.Maybe I'm making myself sick by being "to healthy"?
and why is the sky blue and why do some catapillers have fur on them,are they cold.......
11 Oct 2007, 5:53 pm
Quoting Krex:
We no longer use our "Tuplerware" as my husband calls it, to heat food in the microwave because of that report. I prefer to use glass bowls for storage but sometimes it's not practical.
Men's wees?
Even the Irish? Sorry, had to say that. Don't hate me for it. 
I
have to stay away from Aspartane. I get anxiety attacks from it. And I love Fresca, especially grapefruit, but have to turn it down.
Interesting point. I don't know. I just started taking C and Multi V's and feel much better with more energy and better thinking. Less depressed.
11 Oct 2007, 5:56 pm
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11 Oct 2007, 6:29 pm
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11 Oct 2007, 7:11 pm
I stopped using cursive writing a long long time ago. I print everything.
For some reason my little verifier, that keeps bots from posting spam on my site switched the lettering type. I couldn't tell a simple "a" It kept reversing in my head and then it started looking like a 9. This is in slow time, I mean I was looking hard at it. I think in fast time my brain is doing the same thing, but just gets through the mess a bit faster. It still slows me down. I think part of the reason, and I just noticed this the other day, I drop words, is that it took so long to write. It was just less to write out. But I drop words in what I read and an awful lot doesn't make sense the first time through, so I'm in the habit of skimming it till the end and then going back to make sense of the sentence. Then we get into long paragraphs, which lead into chapters which lead into books. My patience, my ability to stay focused is slimmer now. But even in the old days I still skimmed, everything. I don't think I ever read a full typology book on artifacts, but had memed where to find the exact info when needed. The pictures of the artifacts themselves are all in there. Every point that was found on a site was brought to me because I could tell what it was without a book. But once I understand something fully, I can turn it inside out, side ways, up side down and stand on top of it and make the system work with ease. But to get to that point is agony, I have to really want it, like in an obsession. I flip letters constantly typing and to see what something really looks like when I'm in a hurry, is like looking at code, but I can actually read it...well most times. I have really no idea if this is dyslexia, I mean I won't sit down and even look it up, it's not like it can be fixed even if it is. I've just learned to adapt the best I can. Some of it is getting better because I can actually slow the brain race down long enough to write. Which boils down to more practice in spelling. I mean I can almost always know something is misspelled, I just can't always correct it, even though I've read (skimmed ) thousands of books. yrt can't read a book anymore. Dictionaries are beyond frustrating. So like I say, I dunno what this s**t is, but what ever it is I have it and so what. At least I can write for the first real time in my life and I don't really care if it's good or not, it isn't like I plan on writing a book. I nixed that idea fairly fast. I just want to communicate better, where it goes from there, I don't have a clue.
Only about 25ish mistakes that time, getting better. But I don't know how many words I dropped. I won't know that till I reread it about umpteen times and I don't feel like it. And after that I'd actually have to go in and tie the jump arounds and get them back in an order you normal people read, lol. 
11 Oct 2007, 7:28 pm
We no longer use our "Tuplerware" as my husband calls it, to heat food in the microwave because of that report. I prefer to use glass bowls for storage but sometimes it's not practical.
Men's wees?
Even the Irish? Sorry, had to say that. Don't hate me for it. I
have to stay away from Aspartane. I get anxiety attacks from it. And I love Fresca, especially grapefruit, but have to turn it down.
Interesting point. I don't know. I just started taking C and Multi V's and feel much better with more energy and better thinking. Less depressed.
The Kid says aspertame makes her feel sick, headachey and "off" and so we avoid it. Don't own any tupperware but have a lovely set of ceramic crocks and things that work well in the mwave. Actually, I don't care for the mwave very much. Makes textures wrong in food. We have a nice convection oven a small, countertop one, that I use if I don't want to turn the big oven on. Cooks stuff in 1/2 the time, doesn't heat the kitchen up, doesn't mess with textures of foods. Kid has a lot of weird autoimmune stuff going on that they can't identify. ANA >1:640 at the low end, has been over 1:1280. Joints hurt from time to time, connective tissue hurts, they can't say why. Light hurts. Sound hurts. The air hurts, some days, it seems. They ran out of tests to do on her, did 'em twice, did some of 'em thrice. Still do an ANA now and again, and it's always very high.
We don't know what it is, but we sure do know what it is not.
11 Oct 2007, 7:40 pm
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11 Oct 2007, 8:40 pm
That was beautiful, Nan!
Speaking of microwaves, I have experienced weird phenomena. When walking within a few yards of an operating one, I have felt the oddest, unpleasant tingling, as if I were being electrocuted. Now I won't have one in the house. 
11 Oct 2007, 8:41 pm
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