Perfectionism as a barrier to posting or talking?

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Ever found that you were about to post something on this board or another.... but then wanted to make sure you got the grammar/punctuation/sentence order, etc just right? and then when you thought about how much work that would take, decided to put it off till later and promptly forgot about it? This is a pattern I've noticed myself getting into more and more, I think it goes back to having people generally mock the way I'd talk or walk or whatever and then deciding I'd need to make extra double sure I didn't do these things... but now its becoming a real hindrance for me

If I care, I run things through spell check. For writing, I ALWAYS do, but for forum posts, it would be impractical, so I don't, usually. Hooray for apathy!

I think I've become slightly notoruious for not doing any checking of spelling, grammer, punct. etc. All I really want to do is get the thrust of my thoughts across and not worry to much about the "little" stuff.

Yes. I preview just about a 1000 times before I post. And if I still don't catch a mistake, then I edit it once I finally do after I've posted it. But I preview so much because I get paranoid about those "edited" notes at the bottom when somebody edits their post. I hate those. And I can't see mine so I get paranoid for some reason.

It's annoying. Truly.

i'm really bad for checking things that i've written / typed. the annoying thing is, sometimes i will not notice a mistake until about the tenth time i've checked it! most people would say that checking something more than twice is excessive- but how can it be when mistakes still manage to slip through the net?

I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to my posts here. The only reason I preview them at all is because sometimes I get the font formatting tags wrong.

My spelling and grammar are already so good that proofreading my writing is redundant.

I usually press caps lock or start typing slower than I think and mixing lerttres around. I check my spelling twice, and catch everything most of the time.

I perfect my writing as well when I post, or pretty much whenever I write. I enjoy having correct grammar and not always abbreviating things, or the kind of internet slang (or whatever they call it) that some use. It's hard to read and understand for me at times, and I don't want it to seep into my writing at school; it doesn't happen to everyone, but it happens to some. I re-read and double check pretty much everything I post online, and emails.

What I do is, I'll get like some opinion on what someone else says, then i'll be like "I know something about that" in my mind. Then I'll start wrting about it, then I'll read it and get like 6 more ideas as to how I can make my point more specific or clear, or funny. Then, I'll re-read it and do the same thing over like 3 more times, then I'll look at it and be like, "I don't care about this at all," and just delete everything. I rarely want to comment at all except maybe to a specific people, but then I always want to say something accusatory or judgmental about them and that ain't cool, so I'll go through that process and just be like "f****r, Your so wrong and this how, damn, damn, DAMN!" For like ten minutes and then I'll just be like wait, 'these people don't give a s**t.' and delete it. my stupid mind is always making fun of everything oh, well.

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See because I let out this little bit about me being judgmental and laughing at everyone then I get the feeling that I just want to delete all of this, but I wont do it just to make a point to myself, I guess.

Somtimes idont evn konw whati 'm saying and But then i getside trakced and forget more.

I plan everything I say before I say it.

For the record: I can actually spell very well. I just can't type for crap. I can't touch-tpye; I just peck really really fast. I seem to be using about four fingers.

I do not usually like internet slang but I am addicted to:

1. hehe
2. lol (or LOL for those comments which are really humorous)
3. kewel (or "kewelllllllll" for those comments which are really cool)
4. prolly

in addition to

5. humz...
6. hmmm...