After Effects crashes when I type in a text box

After Effects has started crashing when i type more than a few characters worth of text in a text box. 

It's happening in any After Effects project I use. I tried updating after effects to the latest version (23.2.1) and that didn't help. I also tried using the 2022 version and that had the same problem.

I tried "reset character" as a previous post reccomended and that seemed to help for a moment and then after a few seconds it crashed again. 

I've also tried:

Purging disk cache

Deleting my preferences,

Uninstalling and resinstalling after effects,

Updating my Mac OS to the latest version of Monteray

Having creative cloud open or closed while AE is open.

Turning the computer off and on again.

I'm on Mac OS Monteray 12.6.3

Mac studio 

Apple M1 Max

64gb ram

I'm doing projections for a theatre show that uses lots of text. I also often use text so this is very annoying. 
A workaround is to make all of the text image files in photoshop and import them but it's not ideal as I'd prefer to be able to edit and animate them in after effects.

Since I started troubleshooting this issue After Effects has also crashed twice trying to open a project. And crashed once trying to import a photoshop file.