# "Typing aphasia"?  -- Is that what this is called?

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I mentioned my problem as early as February 2011 :—

> [@Have you experienced these reading/writing difficulties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-these-reading-writing-difficulties/570506/20):
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> … My big problem these days is writing homophones. Not just the obvious “their” for “there” but mismatches as bizarre as “values” for “vowels”. (I caught that one previewing an SDMB post.)

The first time I used the word “aphasia” was November 2017:

> [@The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making/774070/13448):
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> … \* - I’m not trying to be [del]emphasis[/del] offensive. I don’t know the best shorthand for the various ilks of …  
> (I’ve mentioned my very mild aphasia before: a tendency to type homonyms, or near-homonyms. Open another thread to debate whether ‘emphasis’ and ‘offensive’ are near-homonyms.)

This Nov. '17 post was obviously before I started logging the instances to a file:  
emphasis -\> offensive would have been a “stellar” entry! :smack:

[del]I think it started about five years ago and got gradually worse[/del]. After typing the preceding sentence a search for ‘vowels’ tells me it’s over 9 years old, and was weird way back then! I bump my head hard once every two years or so, but have never been diagnosed with, nor had symptoms of, concussion (except mild headaches for a short while after the bumps). Any other mental deterioration is gradual, mild, and probably normal for my age (I’m 70 years old).

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