I'm depressed.

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People keep treating me like I'm the trash they walk on.

I'm getting sick of being disrepected by loons.

I keep getting called stupid all the time because of my spelling disabillity that sometimes comes along with asperger.

I fell like people are always going to think I'm a dolt.

If you type something on a computer, you can use spell-check.

And I once met a teacher at a college in another city, close to where I live, who has trouble spelling.

If it were a trade-off to not be such a good speller because it makes one more intelligent, I think that I envy the fact that I waste my brains' abilities with such a good ability to spell. People who are dyslexic have a difficult time with spelling as well and some dyslexics have enhanced other abilities such as seeing things holistically and thinking in pictures.

Disability or defecits is usually the underlying charactoristic of true intelligence. I have defecits: procrastination, weak ability to plan and organize things ahead of time etc.. With age, its gotten better, though.

Its interesting, isn't it?

Ive played scrabble on my PC an online for years its really helped my spelling.

I'm dyslexic as well. I have found the spell check on the Google tool bar (free) to be very nice. It allows me to add words and some don't. Which means I get to add slang and as I add to the dictionary, it remembers and gets easier to use. The more I write the easier it gets to remember things too. I can tell when a word is misspelled most times, which makes it all the more aggravating. What also used to be hard is my brain race would go so fast, if I stopped to look up words and correct it, I would forget what I was aiming at in the writing. I don't read like normal people do either. But yet I was a literacy volunteer, I didn't even know I was dyslexic till a little while ago and I'm 57. I think the reason I did as well as I did with being a volunteer, is some of the people had the same problem and didn't know it either. I got to show them the way I had learned how to deal with it.

But yeah, school was horrible. I flunked my way through English and would somehow end up with a D. Got out of High School by the skin of my teeth. Dumb? They don't mess with me, I can out think most and they know it, if they don't I'm all to happy to prove it.

Only 14 mistakes that time, getting better. Oopsie 15, misspelled getting, why the hell do you need two t's?