When I point and click, the cursor jumps into the wrong place. Help!

Dear Apple Community,
When I slide my cursor onto a selected item, it jumps away from that letter/number or selection when I click it.
It is OK if I remove my hand, but I like to rest my palm on the keyboard to avoid repetitive strain injury.
This never happened with my white Macbook. Is it something to do with metal magnetism?
Can you tell me how to fix it?
Thanks!
Louise

Hi,
Did you solve your problem? When I point my cursor to select some thing like text or a button on a web page the cursor jumps a bit so it's hard to zero in on the correct selection, it's so frustrating!

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