simple things turn into big challenges
I recently went through my old posts. What a journey it has been.
When I started this journal, it was such a struggle to type. In this digital age, most of you probably have taken lessons and now type on a daily basis. I myself learned typing in high school, and even taught typing in high school! Before the dystonia, my WPM was 88 and at a recent typing excercise, I've found that I'm up to 94 words per minute.
Now, if you could imagine (knowing that you are part of this wonderful typing world) being in such an unpredictable state of movement where typing a single sentence took 30 minutes, where your focus constantly shifted from your thoughts to the screen to your hands to frustration, where the act of typing was as difficult as climbing a mountain...
that is what dystonia is like.
When I started this journal, it was such a struggle to type. In this digital age, most of you probably have taken lessons and now type on a daily basis. I myself learned typing in high school, and even taught typing in high school! Before the dystonia, my WPM was 88 and at a recent typing excercise, I've found that I'm up to 94 words per minute.
Now, if you could imagine (knowing that you are part of this wonderful typing world) being in such an unpredictable state of movement where typing a single sentence took 30 minutes, where your focus constantly shifted from your thoughts to the screen to your hands to frustration, where the act of typing was as difficult as climbing a mountain...
that is what dystonia is like.
posted by RJ at 1:11 AM
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