Hey dude, you get a pass. Anybody in pain can type any damn way they want to. Sorry, we didn't know the circumstances and assumed it was a 16 yr old (now all the 16 yr old's are going to come down on me - they tend to be the fastest typists around here).
As Ripster says, you get a pass.
Your shortening of words just looked quite like the average 16 year old's "lazy typing".
Given Medical problems, then I dare say people will make the effort.
Congratulations on deciding to type yourself though. Grab yourself some nice boards, minimise (Eliminate?) the pain, and enjoy.
Again, I did not know the Circumstances, and as I said, I was not having a go at you.
As Hyperlinked says, Dragon Naturally Speaking (Or the Mac variant of it), is great. Granted, you need to train it, but when you do, it's well worth it. I can talk at just slightly under my normal speed (which is pretty fast anyway), and it makes very few errors. I tend not to use it that much though, more for stream of conciousness ideas type stuff, where my poor typing speed and technique, (Compared to many on here) would interrupt the flow of thoughts. I dare say you can get a trial version for download to try out without laying down the folding on what may be an unknown quantity to you.
In no way did I intend to come over as Elitist. It just annoys me that with an awfully large number of the younger generation (I am not exactly old myself though!), the minimal extra effort for a young, probably healthy person, is simply not put in. In all honesty, it probably takes more effort to mentally remove the vowels, and use number-letter substitution than it does to actually type the word correctly in the first place. Sorry, It's a pet-hate of mine, that earns people a Block on any IM program if they use it more than a couple of times.
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