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Silent3

(15,909 posts)
Thu Jan 25, 2024, 05:17 PM Jan 2024

Is there a word for a handwriting/typing equivalent to stuttering? [View all]

Someone started a thread about teaching cursive in schools, and it made me think about a problem I've had for a long time.

I can't write very many words one after the other, using printing, or worse, in cursive, before I screw up and need to erase (if in pencil) or cross out part of what I've written.

My typing would be atrocious too if computers didn't make it so easy to correct typos. During the brief span of my life when typewriters were still a thing, I needed white-out a lot.

When I tried to google for a word to describe this, all I found was things about how to represent spoken stuttering in print, and a condition called "dysgraphia", which certainly doesn't apply here, because that's related to difficulty in the comprehension of written language and ability to express oneself in writing.

My problem is purely one related to the physical act of forming words with my fingers without making a lot of little mistakes.

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Interesting quesiton. Ms. Toad Jan 2024 #1
Even though I fully understand the difference between "their" and "there"... Silent3 Jan 2024 #2
Hmm. I don't make those mistakes Ms. Toad Jan 2024 #3
Related Story ProfessorGAC Jan 2024 #14
I didn't get out of class, Ms. Toad Jan 2024 #15
I Wasn't Blazing ProfessorGAC Jan 2024 #17
Though you aren't implying reading issues, I still have to wonder how dyslexics are affected... hlthe2b Jan 2024 #4
Whatever it is, I've got it too! 1WorldHope Jan 2024 #5
I feel for you! n/t Silent3 Jan 2024 #11
Possibly ''Brain Fog" ... Donkees Jan 2024 #6
Writing has been like that for me all of my life, and it's just a lack of coordination/control when writing n/t Silent3 Jan 2024 #8
I remember having to do various drawing exercises before learning cursive Donkees Jan 2024 #10
Probably not it ... but just to check ... do you write right-handed ? eppur_se_muova Jan 2024 #7
Not forced, but I did break my arm in a bicyle accident just around the time... Silent3 Jan 2024 #9
I believe dysgraphia can also involve the act of writing and is not limited to just the comprehension. egduj Jan 2024 #12
Scribbles Cartoonist Jan 2024 #13
Me too, dread having to write anything by hand. May as well give a pen to an animal. betsuni Jan 2024 #16
The yips can affect anything ZonkerHarris Jan 2024 #18
Not sure that's necessarily equivalent? Stuttering involves the repetition of Maru Kitteh Jan 2024 #19
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