Forgetting words mid-sentence and making typos I cannot even see. Anyone else?
Two things have been getting noticeably worse for me (42F) and I need to know if this is a "me" thing or an "us" thing.
The first one is the words. I'll be talking and the word just...leaves. Not a fancy word. A word I've used my entire life. I stand there with my mouth open. Buffering. It comes back eventually. Sometimes five seconds later. Sometimes twenty minutes later when I'm doing something completely different.
The second one is weirder and I haven't seen it discussed much. Typos. I've always been a fast, clean typist. Now I'm swapping letters, dropping whole words, using the wrong word entirely. But here's what really gets me. I reread before I send. I look right at the message. I hit send. And then I immediately see three errors that were right there the whole time. My eyes just...slide over them.
It happens everywhere. Texts to friends. Work emails. You know, the stuff that used to be automatic.
Subjectively it feels like it's getting worse. I keep wondering if the word thing and the typo thing are even related. They feel different. One is retrieval (the word is gone). The other is more like...my brain is running a half step behind my hands. And the proofreading blindness is something else entirely. Like my attention just doesn't stick the way it used to.
Is anyone else dealing with this specific combination? The word-finding I sort of expected. But the typing thing caught me completely off guard.
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC