I think everyone abbreviates now. It's not just because we have MS and we're trying to save time by abbreviating everything. Even the Normals abbreviate stuff...(I hate reading posts or texts from a teenager written in "textese". Makes my eyes bleed to see "you" abbreviated as "u", and "your" abbreviated as "ur")

I havent yet been able to let go and abbreviate everything like the teenagers seem to have done. I think a few of my English teachers would hunt me down and shoot me repeatedly if I did that...which is weird, back when I was a student of theirs, I would have been all for textese...I wasnt the greatest student. At the very least, they'd probably assign me a bunch of English homework and expect me to have everything handwritten in ink and in cursive. (I dont really handwrite much anymore)

I have kind of dropped using apostrophes, except in my own last name. (I've got one of those Irish "O' " last names) because it is faster to type when I dont have to make my numb pinky finger look for the apostrophe key.