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Patient sent a work Slack message containing the word 'pleasure' rendered, by autocorrect, as 'pressure.' Spotted the typo 0.4 seconds after hitting send. Cannot edit it. Immediately sent a follow-up asterisk-correction. Then a second apology for the correction. Then a self-deprecating joke nobody asked for. The original recipient had not yet read the message. The thread is now a monument to a mistake nobody would have noticed.
Chronic. Each typo triggers the three-message recovery cascade.
None. Deleting the message would, somehow, make it worse.
Patients with Chronic Typo Death Spiral typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Typo Death Spiral present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Error textualis post-missus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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