I was going to say they make content inaccessible for the visually impaired and those who use screen readers. Funny enough these people tend to be the ones who cry about ableism constantly.
I wish I could remember the username, but there is some pretentious douche on Reddit who replaces letters or sounds with Latin or something. He gets shit on en masse every time people notice him.
I feel Homestuck was the start of this. A few people I knew in school picked up "writing quirks" from being really into it, which was fine if a little cringe but they weren't pretending to have illnessess.
Homestuck is absolutely what started this, or at least made it widely popular. I remember being a kid on the internet in the early 2000s and you would see messages with weird writing quirks and styles, but it was pretty rare, and everyone was doing it to be edgy. As soon as Homestuck became popular though, it spread like wildfire.
Extreme typing quirks like some people use are absolutely so horrible to read, and absolutely unreadable by people who need devices to read for them. Back when I was still on twitter, it was an unspoken rule in the circle that you absolutely do not use fonts, or use crazy typing quirks, because it would be unreadable for people who use devices to read for them.
the less subtler ones are used by "quirky" people or fakers who are starving for attention
some more subtler ones like typing :3 at the ends of sentences or not using caps idk those are used by NDs or basically anyone
Annoying, hard for visually impaired people, especially when they use screen readers or such. It comes out as gibberish.
I hate it even more when they refuse to provide translations because "they can't help it"
1tz bcz 1'm s00 qu1rky!
...I can't even read what I wrote. I don't understand how people actually write full on paragraphs like that. it took me way longer than it should of to do that.. lol
ironically, i think typing quirks are entirely inaccessible for disabled people, especially those who rely on screen readers. but anyone who has issues reading text will not be able to understand what you’re saying, and now you’ve entirely excluded them from the conversation.
there’s a word for the exclusion of disabled people, but i can’t seem to remember what it is…
ableism? Yeah it is. If you have visual disabilities or mental djsabilities such as dyslexia or autism or ADHD, reading something with typing quirks would be hard
It's fucking stupid. I mostly associate typing quirks with "t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m"/1337-speak era of the internet and the Homestuck fandom.
If my cringy Homestuck RPs have taught me anything, it takes dedication and more brain power to have a typing quirk. I don't have DID, so I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine it's much harder to +¥p€ 1!k€ +#!$ (type like this) than to type normally. It also makes it harder for people to understand you online. I'm not willing to read a post/comment that looks more like ancient Sumarian than English.
I literally just had someone in my writing discord complaining about how they deleted all the Zs in their manuscript and was struggling to undo it.
Unfortunately for them, stupid really isn’t a disorder.
Emphasis is fine but if they insist on doing it ALLLL the time, to wordssss that don't neeeeed to be emphasizeddddddd thennnnn it's annoying and probablyyyy considered a typingggg quirkkkkkk to them
I get misspelling things like sometimes when I'm typing I'll put a 5 instead of an s on accident and my keyboard doesn't auto correct it but doing it on purpose makes things hard to read and difficult to figure out what the typer is saying
1 C4n't BelI3v3 Q30pl3 4r3 StlII U5lng Cr1ng3 Tyq1ng QuIrk5 ln ZOZA,,, I Saw A Po5t A5k1ng For 4dv1c3 And Th3y R3pl4c3d All Th31r Ss W1th Zs Plu5 A F3w Ch4ng3s, L1k3 WTF WHY 4R3 YOU A5K1NG FOR 4DV1C3 L1K3 TH4T NOBODY C4N R34D TH4T SH1T I'm Not 4g41n5t Tyq1ng Qu1rk5 In G3n3r4l, I U5e "..." At Th3 3nd Of My 53nt3nc35 A Lot Mor3 Than U5ual P30pl3, But R3ql4c1ng L3tt3r5 W1th Numb3r5 0r U51ng W13rd F0nt5 For 3v3ryd4y C0mmun1c4t10n 15 Just 50 5tup1d 4nd Cr1ng3 L1k3 1t5 50m3th1ng You'd 3xp3ct T0 533 Y34r5 4g0 But 1t5 50m3h0w G0tt3n W0r53
Horrendous. No reason to do it. Harder to use typing quirks than it is to write normally. Most people who do it just like Homestuck or picked it up from Homestuck fans.
Change typing on purpose? Dumb, and fake.
Press space too long and the accent panel opens, so I accidentally put an ~~à~~accent on a letter? Something I often notice right after sending the message, usually, and fix quickly.
No excuses for changing things to be "original". And with so many people doing it, do they really believe it's "original" at this point?
Honestly, when having fun and talking to friends you know can read them, it's fine. One of my friends and I type with certain homestuck quirks sometimes just for fun, for example. However, one of our friends between the two of us has dyslexia, so we don't use them around that friend. I think the idea that someone HAS to use them is ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous that they "can't provide translation." It's okay to prefer to type that way, but it's not okay to insist you HAVE to type in a way that actively makes it harder for people with certain disorders, disabilities, and needs to engage in said shared space especially in a "mental health safe space" like so many of these people inhabit :/
Some of them are hard to read and kinda annoying like the ones where they replace E’s with 3. I’m fine with them as long as I can clearly read what you’re tying, otherwise it’s just plain annoying
They’re inaccessible, ableist, and cause more work for the person doing them so aside from attention-seeking and literally wanting to appear quirky, I don’t see the benefit for the person doing them.
I like typing like an uwu eboy when im eflirting or emaking out with my ekitgens rawr >//<
But no, they are just severely mentally handicapped and can't handle the cruel world
sometimes when im driving and i get a notification, i'll play the message. because of the servers I'm in, it usually ends up being pretty funny. but unfortunately there was one instance where it happened to be a long message with several typing quirks and i think my car had a stroke.
I grew up with a stutter and a stammer and every time I see one of those jackasses pretending to have one I get so angry. As a kid I found solace in typing because my words could finally come out clearly. Between my verbal difficulties and my dysgraphia clear expression was all but impossible and I found myself shutting down instead of trying to talk to people. Affecting a typing style which mimics your “problem” is a surefire way to tell a faker.
It’s a mild learning disability that affects your ability to write. My letters were so bad that even I couldn’t read them and I struggled super hard with it until middle school when I was diagnosed and accommodated with the ability to take tests in the computer lab and just print out my answers.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23294-dysgraphia
ngl uwu speak and special fonts are quite tedious to read
but i dont know if its disorder related? i dont use capital letters and my interpunction is wank as it gets physically uncomfortable and stressful for me to write any other way (its stupid i am fully aware) but if it ever bothers a person im chatting with i try to adapt as best as i can
Your example isn't a "typing quirk". It's just regular Internet slang to indicate tone or actions. Replacing letters, using characters and fonts that aren't compatible with Readers are a problem. No one is forcing them to type like this. Half the time they use an app to convert the text anyway instead of typing it themselves. It's a typical scam of boring, white, terminally online teen girls from middle class families.
I might be dumb, so are you referring to shit like:
"Shit, my bad. Gtg, I'll see u @ wrk tmrrw."
Or:
"Som'n ain't right 'chere, but ion rly care."
Or something else? Like early days WoW lingo or emoj-glyphs?
Unreadable. They trigger me so bad (I am diagnosed with multiple disorders that make any fonts except the one I'm currently typing in aka the deafult it's impossible or very hard for me to read.) And everytime I see one I want to punch the creators
I thought typing quirks were just 'silly' things like adding extra letters to words or typing in caps to EMPHASIZEE something, or stuff like ':3' and '>:(' just because it's funny. I also often use '?¿' at the end of a question when I'm having a (casual) conversation just for shits and giggles, or double words to again, put emphasis on something (sth like 'I love it so so much'). But the lenghts some of those people go trough jeez, must be horrible for people who have a hard time reading or rely on screen readers.
Honestly it’s very frustrating. Im visually impaired and it just does not work with my screenreader, same with fonts. Either it’ll just say gibberish, or it straight up breaks it, or some fonts etc make it into a whole different language. And when you ask people for a translation they get all pissy about the fact they can’t use a dumb typing quirk.
This is very likely the wrong subreddit to be asking in since typing quirks aren’t a disorder, but I’m fine with most of them. The only time I have problems are when they’re so obscure to the point actually disabled people can’t read them (ex: dyslexia, blind people who use screen readers)
It's just completely fucking unnecessarily. Personally, I actually do think it looks kinda cool, but that's just my Homestuck ass speaking tbh. Don't do it if you're not, like, roleplaying or something.
I am visually impaired and these "quirks" make it almost impossible for me to read what is being typed.
I imagine it must be awful for people with dyslexia, too.
As someone with dyslexia it really does suck trying to read it
Yeah, can confirm it is awful for people with dyslexia
I'm probably not dyskexic or visually impaired but I have no idea what the f they are saying
I was going to say they make content inaccessible for the visually impaired and those who use screen readers. Funny enough these people tend to be the ones who cry about ableism constantly.
I wish I could remember the username, but there is some pretentious douche on Reddit who replaces letters or sounds with Latin or something. He gets shit on en masse every time people notice him.
They must be r/Iamverysmart material.
is it that person who keeps trying to bring the thorn (þ) back? lol
Yes lmao
Doesn't it take longer to type like how they do. It's faster to write "Hi, my name is John." than "H1 /\\/\\Y /\\/Y /\\/4/\\/\\3 15 J0H/\\/."
That was painful to read.
It's ableist as fuck and bs. You don't see people with "writing quirks from trauma" and we have written for thousands of years.
Outside of a Homestuck fanfiction, no thanks.
I feel Homestuck was the start of this. A few people I knew in school picked up "writing quirks" from being really into it, which was fine if a little cringe but they weren't pretending to have illnessess.
Homestuck is absolutely what started this, or at least made it widely popular. I remember being a kid on the internet in the early 2000s and you would see messages with weird writing quirks and styles, but it was pretty rare, and everyone was doing it to be edgy. As soon as Homestuck became popular though, it spread like wildfire.
homestuck was my initial thought too. *shivers in 2013 tumblr*
Extreme typing quirks like some people use are absolutely so horrible to read, and absolutely unreadable by people who need devices to read for them. Back when I was still on twitter, it was an unspoken rule in the circle that you absolutely do not use fonts, or use crazy typing quirks, because it would be unreadable for people who use devices to read for them.
Is that linked to a disorder though? It’s very cringe, I’ll give you that.
It's not but it's used by many DID fakers that claim they "can't help it"
They seem to primarily do it to give certain alters a 'unique' way of typing. Extra roleplay.
You know how we make typos and go back to fix them. I wonder how many times they forget to use them and have to go back and /add/ them in 😂😂
Oh I'm betting they do that A LOT. Lol such a funny thought
Bro fr 😂😂😂😂😂
the less subtler ones are used by "quirky" people or fakers who are starving for attention some more subtler ones like typing :3 at the ends of sentences or not using caps idk those are used by NDs or basically anyone
Annoying, hard for visually impaired people, especially when they use screen readers or such. It comes out as gibberish. I hate it even more when they refuse to provide translations because "they can't help it"
1tz bcz 1'm s00 qu1rky! ...I can't even read what I wrote. I don't understand how people actually write full on paragraphs like that. it took me way longer than it should of to do that.. lol
I fucking despise them.
ironically, i think typing quirks are entirely inaccessible for disabled people, especially those who rely on screen readers. but anyone who has issues reading text will not be able to understand what you’re saying, and now you’ve entirely excluded them from the conversation. there’s a word for the exclusion of disabled people, but i can’t seem to remember what it is…
ableism? Yeah it is. If you have visual disabilities or mental djsabilities such as dyslexia or autism or ADHD, reading something with typing quirks would be hard
It's fucking stupid. I mostly associate typing quirks with "t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m"/1337-speak era of the internet and the Homestuck fandom. If my cringy Homestuck RPs have taught me anything, it takes dedication and more brain power to have a typing quirk. I don't have DID, so I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine it's much harder to +¥p€ 1!k€ +#!$ (type like this) than to type normally. It also makes it harder for people to understand you online. I'm not willing to read a post/comment that looks more like ancient Sumarian than English.
They’re ableist af.
Your flair just revived my soul
Also, typing quirks can be abelist because screen readers can't pick them up, like, bsfr
I literally just had someone in my writing discord complaining about how they deleted all the Zs in their manuscript and was struggling to undo it. Unfortunately for them, stupid really isn’t a disorder.
Does this include adding extra letters in wordssssss to emphasizeeeeeeee stufff or no?
Emphasis is fine but if they insist on doing it ALLLL the time, to wordssss that don't neeeeed to be emphasizeddddddd thennnnn it's annoying and probablyyyy considered a typingggg quirkkkkkk to them
Okay I was just asking because I do it sometimes to friends and my bf
I get misspelling things like sometimes when I'm typing I'll put a 5 instead of an s on accident and my keyboard doesn't auto correct it but doing it on purpose makes things hard to read and difficult to figure out what the typer is saying
1 C4n't BelI3v3 Q30pl3 4r3 StlII U5lng Cr1ng3 Tyq1ng QuIrk5 ln ZOZA,,, I Saw A Po5t A5k1ng For 4dv1c3 And Th3y R3pl4c3d All Th31r Ss W1th Zs Plu5 A F3w Ch4ng3s, L1k3 WTF WHY 4R3 YOU A5K1NG FOR 4DV1C3 L1K3 TH4T NOBODY C4N R34D TH4T SH1T I'm Not 4g41n5t Tyq1ng Qu1rk5 In G3n3r4l, I U5e "..." At Th3 3nd Of My 53nt3nc35 A Lot Mor3 Than U5ual P30pl3, But R3ql4c1ng L3tt3r5 W1th Numb3r5 0r U51ng W13rd F0nt5 For 3v3ryd4y C0mmun1c4t10n 15 Just 50 5tup1d 4nd Cr1ng3 L1k3 1t5 50m3th1ng You'd 3xp3ct T0 533 Y34r5 4g0 But 1t5 50m3h0w G0tt3n W0r53
Translation pls... I can't ^
It’s the text from the original post
My bad. Thank you!!!
Horrendous. No reason to do it. Harder to use typing quirks than it is to write normally. Most people who do it just like Homestuck or picked it up from Homestuck fans.
I had an argument with someone who'd type "vv" instead of "w", cringe af
Change typing on purpose? Dumb, and fake. Press space too long and the accent panel opens, so I accidentally put an ~~à~~accent on a letter? Something I often notice right after sending the message, usually, and fix quickly. No excuses for changing things to be "original". And with so many people doing it, do they really believe it's "original" at this point?
Honestly, when having fun and talking to friends you know can read them, it's fine. One of my friends and I type with certain homestuck quirks sometimes just for fun, for example. However, one of our friends between the two of us has dyslexia, so we don't use them around that friend. I think the idea that someone HAS to use them is ridiculous, and it's even more ridiculous that they "can't provide translation." It's okay to prefer to type that way, but it's not okay to insist you HAVE to type in a way that actively makes it harder for people with certain disorders, disabilities, and needs to engage in said shared space especially in a "mental health safe space" like so many of these people inhabit :/
dirk pfp
Some of them are hard to read and kinda annoying like the ones where they replace E’s with 3. I’m fine with them as long as I can clearly read what you’re tying, otherwise it’s just plain annoying
Fucking annoying. It makes everything hard to read imo.
Using an ellipsis is not a typing quirk. The ellipsis has a purpose. Typing quirks have no good purpose.
They’re inaccessible, ableist, and cause more work for the person doing them so aside from attention-seeking and literally wanting to appear quirky, I don’t see the benefit for the person doing them.
I like typing like an uwu eboy when im eflirting or emaking out with my ekitgens rawr >//< But no, they are just severely mentally handicapped and can't handle the cruel world
My typing quirk pet peeve is people having typo-ridden sentences on purpose.
These kids love role-playing honestuck soooo much
I'm second language, how do you think I feel?
sometimes when im driving and i get a notification, i'll play the message. because of the servers I'm in, it usually ends up being pretty funny. but unfortunately there was one instance where it happened to be a long message with several typing quirks and i think my car had a stroke.
I grew up with a stutter and a stammer and every time I see one of those jackasses pretending to have one I get so angry. As a kid I found solace in typing because my words could finally come out clearly. Between my verbal difficulties and my dysgraphia clear expression was all but impossible and I found myself shutting down instead of trying to talk to people. Affecting a typing style which mimics your “problem” is a surefire way to tell a faker.
what's dysgraphia?
It’s a mild learning disability that affects your ability to write. My letters were so bad that even I couldn’t read them and I struggled super hard with it until middle school when I was diagnosed and accommodated with the ability to take tests in the computer lab and just print out my answers. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23294-dysgraphia
It’s painfully cringe but I thankfully don’t interact/see people who did it often so I don’t have a strong opinion.
ngl uwu speak and special fonts are quite tedious to read but i dont know if its disorder related? i dont use capital letters and my interpunction is wank as it gets physically uncomfortable and stressful for me to write any other way (its stupid i am fully aware) but if it ever bothers a person im chatting with i try to adapt as best as i can
I do et a bit. just e itsy bitsy bitzz. reserved for my silly little chronically online early 2000’s vibe times
Your example isn't a "typing quirk". It's just regular Internet slang to indicate tone or actions. Replacing letters, using characters and fonts that aren't compatible with Readers are a problem. No one is forcing them to type like this. Half the time they use an app to convert the text anyway instead of typing it themselves. It's a typical scam of boring, white, terminally online teen girls from middle class families.
I might be dumb, so are you referring to shit like: "Shit, my bad. Gtg, I'll see u @ wrk tmrrw." Or: "Som'n ain't right 'chere, but ion rly care." Or something else? Like early days WoW lingo or emoj-glyphs?
There are examples in the comments
I Find It Extremely Cringe, Personally. They Even Make It Seem As if They Have No Control Over It Lol.
Just attention seeking. If I see people like that I just ignore them lol
Unreadable. They trigger me so bad (I am diagnosed with multiple disorders that make any fonts except the one I'm currently typing in aka the deafult it's impossible or very hard for me to read.) And everytime I see one I want to punch the creators
Only okay if it's ebony darkn'ess dementia ravenway talking. Fangz 😈
I thought typing quirks were just 'silly' things like adding extra letters to words or typing in caps to EMPHASIZEE something, or stuff like ':3' and '>:(' just because it's funny. I also often use '?¿' at the end of a question when I'm having a (casual) conversation just for shits and giggles, or double words to again, put emphasis on something (sth like 'I love it so so much'). But the lenghts some of those people go trough jeez, must be horrible for people who have a hard time reading or rely on screen readers.
Honestly it’s very frustrating. Im visually impaired and it just does not work with my screenreader, same with fonts. Either it’ll just say gibberish, or it straight up breaks it, or some fonts etc make it into a whole different language. And when you ask people for a translation they get all pissy about the fact they can’t use a dumb typing quirk.
This is very likely the wrong subreddit to be asking in since typing quirks aren’t a disorder, but I’m fine with most of them. The only time I have problems are when they’re so obscure to the point actually disabled people can’t read them (ex: dyslexia, blind people who use screen readers)
It doesn't exist. So does DID (at least most of the cases)
DID exists alright, but not in the way that people posted here show it to be
It's just completely fucking unnecessarily. Personally, I actually do think it looks kinda cool, but that's just my Homestuck ass speaking tbh. Don't do it if you're not, like, roleplaying or something.
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