In an altruistic move, an autistic woman has quit her job as an orthodontist to become a full-time corrector of other people’s mistakes.
Emma Bernard, 38, first took up pedantry as a hobby, but has recently decided that life is too short not to spend it pointing out people’s minor spelling and grammatical errors.
“It started out as a hobby,” Bernard confessed as she pressed SEND on a resignation email from her £85k-a-year career. “I’d always be the first to point out a teacher’s accidental slip up, no matter how tiny. It went down really well, so I moved on to other students too. Then friends, boyfriends, colleagues, major news outlets. They were all equally grateful for my observations, so I guess it just grew from there.”
However, it took decades for Bernard to realise that by focusing her talents full time, she could make the world a better place entirely from the comfort of her own sofa. “There’s fixing tooth pain, and then there’s fixing the pain of seeing two letters typed in the wrong order. It’s about priorities. I finally feel like my life has meaning.”
“I’m not surprised,” commented her dental assistant, Liz McHodge, 32. “You should see the way she grins when autocorrect goes wrong in a group chat. It’s incredibly annoying.”
Bernard is uncertain what the future as an unpaid Typo Corrector holds for her, but remains positive. “I might be broke and unemployed, but the intense kick I get out of knowing I’m right and somebody else is wrong – that’s payment enough for me.”
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