Does anyone else have spelling problems?

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Not at all. I use a spell check and everything comes out purfekly spelled.

I disagree that poor spelling is a symptom of autism, but of dyslexia (you don't have to have "full blown" dyslexia).
But disorders are connected and to have one neuropsychiatric disorder, there is a very high change, to have another one or some signs of another one.

I also had poor spelling as a child and it's still not the best.

I could not spell, be good with grammer, read or write to save my life. Same with math and the like, achademicly I'm horrible. I suppose thats what a learning disablity does to you. Good with a wrench though!

My speech is perfect, but I've always had severe issues with syllabification, and often I write a word instead of another in essays, I often forget to write all the letters of a word, and similar. But exept these, my grammar is perfect.

had trouble with spelling most of my life..as you can see from my posts..it has got better a little
I did have trouble in school with certain subjects and needed extra help to to poor memory

Certainly some people with autism aren't good spellers, but I don't think it had anything to do with the autism itself (except for the general conception that autistics tend to be either very good or very bad at things). But there are probably just as many of us who are perfect spellers as those who are horrible spellers. For me, grammar and spelling has always been one of my strengths: my parents and teachers often ask me to proofread things because I'm like a human spellchecker. Written language is my "thing" -- spoken language, not so much...

Given how difficult English as a language is to spell, I think everyone has spelling problems. This is hardly any sort of indicator. German seems to be worse, with words like "Entscheidungsproblem" and "Weltanshauung" could not be any easier.

I've never heard of poor spelling having anything to do with autism.
I'm poor at it myself, but that's most likely down to my dyslexia.

All of my family members who aren't dyslexic, (everyone in the family has a lot of autistic traits) are very good at spelling ('thought I'd just mention that).

Just the opposite, I've always been great at spelling.

But when I was in high school I read a lot of novels by British authors (I'm in the US) and I began to adopt English spellings for words, like "colour" for "color" or "theatre" for "theater." This caused me problems in school. Teachers would say I misspelled the words, but I didn't consider them misspellings. To me they were alternate spellings.

I had a similar problem learning other languages, I would mix up words from different languages, smatter my Spanish with German words and vice versa. I was good with languages, just mixed up. I found it so annoying! I finally gave up on learning two languages at once, or any foreign languages at all for that matter, because it was so confusing. But I was a great speller even in my foreign language classes. Go figure.

I have always loved words as such, the way they are composed of letters, and spelling has always been easy for me. I learn the correct spelling by looking at a word once. A bigger problem for me is grammar and style, and no doubt the exact meaning of words, too. (I am a Finn.)

Right you are. German and Finnish are notorious for their compound words: everything is lumped together with neither spaces nor hyphens.

Entscheidungsproblemfindungsgehilfenfachangestellte.


At least you spell them pretty much the way you pronounce them in German, in a lot of languages you don't, like French for example.

Last edited by Raziel on 13 Jan 2013, 3:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My spelling is decent however there is always room for improvement though.

I find French is at least consistent with its relation between spelling and pronunciation. In general, once you've figured out how to pronounce a sequence like 'eau', 'ouille', or 'ieux', they'll be the same in every word you'll encounter. None of the absurdity you'll get with English, where 'tough', 'though', and 'plough' do not rhyme.

Finnish language is phonetic in two directions: every written letter corresponds to one spoken sound and vice versa. There are no ambiguous cases because letters like C, Q, and X are not considered Finnish.