Why is my hand always writing the wrong thing?

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What it says on the topic. It's bothering me a lot because now I have to write quite a bit in school, and my hand has a habit of writing the wrong word in place of what I meant to write. Sometimes when I cancel it out to rewrite it again, my hand just rewrites the same (wrong!) word again! Often this happens several times and I have to make a conscious effort to make my hand write out all the correct letters one at a time. It's not because I have bad spelling or grammar; my english is pretty good. I can tell that I've written the wrong word, but it's like my hand has a mind of its own and automatically writes words my brain isn't telling it to write. Usually it's a word that is pretty close to the word that I actually mean to write (in terms of spelling), but sometimes with the exception of the first few letters, it's a completely different word It's almost as if there's a mild disconnect between my brain and my hand.

This has been plaguing me since primary school, but now when I have to write a lot under stress, it just gets even worse. Is there a name for this and can it be stopped? It's tiring having to stop writing every few words to cancel and rewrite something over and over again.

There is. If it wasn't for computers and LaTeX, I wouldn't be the Trencher I am today.

The sensory scrambling issues are one of AS's most serious impairments, but they're almost never mentioned. It's like AS is just some sort of social disorder. These sensory scrambling issues are real, and there's not much you can do about them.

I have a similar problem, but its like my brain moves faster and my hand rushes to keep up and misses letters or even whole words. for example, sometimes if I try to write "The blue box is over there" it will come out "The blox isohere". I didnt realize it was an Aspie trait...

because it is connected to your brain.

(actually i can not go to sleep without apologizing for this post.,i am so sorry. i am sorry about being very sorry and and i am sorry i was more sorry than i should be accordi,,,,,,
i do not give rats ass.
i have no use for them , but i would never give even one of them away.if i was in possession of a container ship full of them.

so good night my battery is flat.

Oh darn. I was hoping something could be done to make it stop. Having to rewrite the same wrong word up to five times in succession is driving me crazy.



When this happens, I just end up with an illegible scrawl. Sometimes both happen. My hand writes stuff my brain doesn't tell it to, and then I miss out on words and letters. The most irritating part is that the word that I don't mean to write usually ends up being the one that is spelled right.



I don't get this... I'm going to assume it's sarcasm and not circular reasoning.

I've always done the same thing but mostly it was just writing the wrong letters. Now I just use a keyboard.

i also get this with keybords, if i rush trough a section of writing.
i can only write or type so fast (although it is quite a bit faster then most of my peers, it's still limited), and i can think of what i want to write faster then i write it down, especially if i make an error and correct myself, without thinking about it.
this makes my hands and brain be on different parts of the story, and if the gap becomes too big, my hands will just skip ahead a bit to match up with what i'm thinking, sometimes mid-word...
nothing really you can do about that, except train yourself to take little breaks of thinking so your hands can keep up the pace without skipping

In school, sometimes I was just writing the wrong letters. I have a horrible handwriting anyway. I also have to type a bit slowly, because I'm prone to make mistakes, despite having learned touch typing.

I've started doing this with typing recently (unintentionally!), but not writing. Probably because my ataxic cerebral palsy makes it so it's impossible to write very fast.

Tippex is a great invention! Only way to make my course notes basically understandable, but time consuming.

I have the opposite to this problem I can write and type the right words but I say the wrong words.

Dtto. I never actually thought about the possibility of accidentally typing the wrong words, even though I tend to say the wrong words. Maybe I'm just too enamored of written language--it's beautiful, right there in front of you, doesn't shift and fade like spoken language does. Sometimes when I'm not paying attention I do write something that I didn't intend to write, but that happens so very seldom that I can't even think of a specific instance right now; and, anyway, most of the time I realize my mistake and correct it even before I submit the post.

This has been my experience also. Although, I make more mistakes in typing than I used to, but I usually catch them immediately.

It bothers me if I type the wrong thing & then don't catch it until other(s) have already seen it.

I have written things but miss a word or letter. On the computer I have typed things but instead I type something else. I have no idea why that happens. It's an embarrassing thing because it seems BS because I were to say this happens to me I don't expect anyone to buy this issue because it doesn't make sense. It's like my mind has a mind of it's own so it types something else instead than I really wanted to type and I don't always catch it until it's too late.

When handwriting, my brain sometimes gets a letter or two ahead of what my hand is doing (I'm not that fast a handwriter, because I like to write neat and am capable of doing so) and so I sometimes skip a letter or two, but always catch it within a letter or two of that.

Likewise, when typing, I might occasionally skip a word because my brain gets a word or two ahead of what my hands are typing. And I HAVE, on occasion, posted stuff on Facebook with a word missing because Facebook doesn't grammar-check.