Signs of brain deterioration

[jodawi]

I've started confusing its with it's.
I just wrote gets as get's; caught by spelling checker.


I think I'd rather be dead than have severe Alzheimer's, having seen it in action, so I often have a mild worry that I'll get to a severe stage of mental inability too subtly and slowly to be able to plan said death. This is what I think of when I find myself writing get's.

Comments

[snickerpuss.livejournal.com]

Um. More fatty acids, sir!

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

Having recently noticed that I am incapable of spelling certain words that I always used to be able to spell, I am going to reassure you that perhaps it is stress, a side effect from medication, or merely a lack of sleep, or lack of attention to our typing, that is causing this spelling deficiency on both our parts. Because, frankly, I find it rather disturbing to think it might signal the beginning of the end when I am only 30-something.

I promise I'll tell you if your posts start showing signs of mental deterioration, and you can do the same for me. Then, perhaps, we can postpone worrying about whether or not we need to off ourselves to avoid being drooling zombies.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way, but every person I've known who had alzheimer's/parkinson's has spent quite a bit of time at the clearly-knowing-what's-happening-and-able-to-do-something-about-it stage and then hasn't done anything, so probably when you get there you change your mind.