{"id":467,"date":"2006-08-13T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/13\/misfirings-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2007-10-21T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T12:13:06","slug":"misfirings-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/misfirings-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Misfirings in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chatting with <a href=\"http:\/\/vera.spoken-for.org\/wordpress\/\">Vera<\/a>, I noticed I misspelled all the time. I wrote &#8220;where <em>I<\/em> you flying on Tuesday?&#8221; without noticing it. I of course should&#8217;ve written &#8216;are&#8217; instead if &#8216;I&#8217;. Why did I write it like that? They don&#8217;t even sound alike! In the same conversation I had written &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure why <em>there<\/em> links aren&#8217;t in exactly the same place though&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My brain&#8217;s a bit wonky anyway. For as long as I can remember, I sometimes mix up the letters s and r when I&#8217;m writing by hand. In cursive handwriting they probably looked similar to me when we were practising it on 3rd grade (onwards) and nowadays I sometimes mix up even the normal handwriting letters and capital letters which look nothing alike.<\/p>\n<p>I also confuse the words &#8216;orange&#8217; and &#8216;purple&#8217;. I do know which is which, but sometimes I accidentally say one when I mean the other, and then it takes a while before I can find the correct word I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Does something like this happen to you, too?<\/p>\n<p><small>And again! &#8220;I could&#8217;ve slept <em>this<\/em> 10-11 if he hadn&#8217;t come whining behind my door at 8.&#8221; Jeez!<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatting with Vera, I noticed I misspelled all the time. I wrote &#8220;where I you flying on Tuesday?&#8221; without noticing it. I of course should&#8217;ve written &#8216;are&#8217; instead if &#8216;I&#8217;. Why did I write it like that? They don&#8217;t even sound alike! In the same conversation I had written &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure why there links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-people","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}