And of course my english class...

[conuly]

We do free writing every day (or, in my case, free typing). And today's subject was a bit hard for me, so as I'm typing I look out the window to think. No big deal, I *do* know how to type properly. Heck, the other day I was typing all my English work with my eyese closed because they were tearing up on me and nobody said boo. But today everybody noticed and started freaking out. It's just, hello? I'm typing here? No big deal? And I type faster than you write, so maybe you should be doing your work instead of trying to distract me?

*sighs*

I'm not rehashing the fight we later had over semantics. *le sigh*

Comments

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Why were they freaking out?

[conuly]

Because I was typing while looking out the window. Didn't you know? The ability to type without looking at the keys (or screen) is one of the rarest occult abilities!

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Oh, that explains why me and infintysquared can do it, as we're both long-time occultists, but how did you pick up the ability?

[conuly]

Practice.

Honestly, do people think I type because it's so slow or something?

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

I don't know why people think you type. I would assume a person typing in class was probably taking notes. People tell me I type fast, but I disagree, because until I can type as fast as I can talk, it's not really fast.

[conuly]

Hm. How fast do you type?

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

around 60 WPM.

[conuly]

Aw, that's slow! I am inordinately proud of my 93-wpm-while-sitting-awkwardly.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Right. Whenever people tell me, "wow, you type fast," I'm shocked, due to the fact that 60 WPM is pretty slow, comparitively.

[conuly]

That's because they don't know how to type. Luddites.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

Given my dexterity issues, and that rapid typing speeds seem to be not uncommon among the autistic, I have to wonder what is going on.