Not the sharpest tack on Chrome

If your like many Americans, you might have issues with grammar. I certainly do and it isn’t a secret. My life is an open book, a sometimes poorly written open book. It started perhaps when I was a tiny innocent baby and my well meaning parents vaccinated me. I got very sick, fevers of 106 for a very long time. I was hospitalized and it was hard to bring the fevers down. Fevers like that are known to cause brain damage. I got these fevers through childhood and they seemed to vanish when I no longer got vaccinations. One thing that sometimes helped when nothing else did for some odd reason was Aspirin. I remember my mother (who no longer lived with us) told my step mother about this but my step mother had to see if for herself. After getting me vaccinated it happened again, the fevers came back and my step mother knowing what we all know, that one should not give children aspirin fought the advice for as long as could till finally she just had to try as the fevers would go on and on. Aspirin didn’t make them go away, it just broke them and so I was on a lot of it till finally the episode past. I still get high fevers from time to time but not like that. It has only happened once to me as an adult, my husband was in Iraq and at an appointment a nurse jabbed me with a TB vaccine, goodness did I get sick and the fevers raged and everything really clicked. I was told I am allergic to something in vaccines. What ever it is, I was not a healthy child and had sun sickness even. That is a post for another day.

In any case, what does all this have to do with grammar, in short, I have some learning disabilities. It hits the ego a bit to admit this, specially as an adult, but it is what it is. I was never expected to be able to spell past an elementary level though I read well above grade level and loved reading. While the school system gave up on trying to teach me how to spell, I managed to get past that level on my own. I still though have a hard time with words that sound the same, have different meanings, and are spelled differently. Specially “Where, Were and Your and You’re” and these are often seen in my blog posts much to the annoyance of some others and some sponsors as well.

I try, I really do. I re-read my work, often a few times and I just don’t see the errors. I leave out whole words from a sentence or add a word that makes no logical sense that some how got scrambled between what I thought and tried to say but ended up typing something perfectly spelled but not the word I meant to include in that thought. When such things are pointed out to me I can then see them and read them as others read them and I wonder how they understand me at and I am thankful for their patience and for pointing the issues out to me.

For this reason, my poor grammar, I use two spell checking programs on my posts. The newest one I tried was called “After the Deadline” and it is an add on to the Chrome web browser. I had to disable it though as it keeps hanging up my social network posts and will wipe out a whole blog post and post it completely blank, to my utter horror! So now I need to find another program that will catch my mistakes before they annoy anyone! “After the Deadline” is not the sharpest tack on Chrome in my opinion. Not that I have the right to point fingers or throw stones I am aware. Can’t a girl catch a break though?