Wow, a sign of "Old Timers" disease?

[Bretrick]

I wanted to write the word "from". What I wrote was "wham"

 

[Fyrefox]

There was a band called “Wham.” Could you have been thinking of them? I find that sometimes I miss-associate or misidentify when I am multitasking, or simply get distracted by multiple demands being made on me at the same time. We are not meant to operate in this way! You can overload yourself neurologically.

To share a related experience, I went for a “Wellness” check the other day, and the buggers did a mini-mental status check on me, since I’m a geezer and all. I aced the part on remembering three objects later on, but then they wanted me to draw a clock face with hands specifying a particular time. Now I haven’t used analogue clocks in decades, I’m no artist, and no one has ever asked me to draw one representing a specific time, so I struggled a bit with this archaic item, realizing afterwards that I had drawn the hands wrong, and getting the nurse to allow me to draw a correction.

I can dance around most people linguistically, but my spatial rendering skills were never the best. There are multiple intelligences, and most of us are stronger in some than others. I didn’t want them to think that the cheese had fallen off my cracker…too far, anyways!

 

[hollydolly]

There was a band called “Wham.” Could you have been thinking of them? I find that sometimes I miss-associate or misidentify when I am multitasking, or simply get distracted by multiple demands being made on me at the same time. We are not meant to operate in this way! You can overload yourself neurologically.

To share a related experience, I went for a “Wellness” check the other day, and the buggers did a mini-mental status check on me, since I’m a geezer and all. I aced the part on remembering three objects later on, but then they wanted me to draw a clock face with hands specifying a particular time. Now I haven’t used analogue clocks in decades, I’m no artist, and no one has ever asked me to draw one representing a specific time, so I struggled a bit with this archaic item, realizing afterwards that I had drawn the hands wrong, and getting the nurse to allow me to draw a correction.

I can dance around most people linguistically, but my spatial rendering skills were never the best. There are multiple intelligences, and most of us are stronger in some than others. I didn’t want them to think that the cheese had fallen off my cracker…too far, anyways!

you sound more than on the ball to me... but as someone who cares for an alzheimers' sufferer, I can understand you might be on hyper alert...

 

[hollydolly]

I wanted to write the word "from". What I wrote was "wham"

I tell you.. the spell checker on here is crazy... I sometimes get the exact opposite of what I wrote..

 

[Bretrick]

There was a band called “Wham.” Could you have been thinking of them? I find that sometimes I miss-associate or misidentify when I am multitasking, or simply get distracted by multiple demands being made on me at the same time. We are not meant to operate in this way! You can overload yourself neurologically.

Wham was not on my mind. Totally no idea how this could have occurred.

 

[Oris Borloff]

Your fingers went off on a joy ride. Happens to me once in a while, especially if someone is talking to me and I'll use a word I hear instead of what I think.