Nwrdlls

 No, it isn't age. It's more like youth.

A change of schools at a tender age interrupted my learning how to write cursive well enough to read (hence my taking a typing class at the earliest opportunity and assiduously pounding on keyboards ever since)…so when I write notes to myself they are often lost forever in the mist of what?

This is why I just spent nearly two minutes and lots of pacing around trying to figure out a note I wrote to myself only a couple of hours ago. It turned out to be "big box," and means I'm expecting a delivery from UPS today.

The most egregious example of this deficiency is the word "nwrdlls," which I found scrawled on a blackboard next to my refrigerator about 30 years ago.

It took nearly an entire day to figure out that meant "noodles."