i make weird typos

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I just made a post and substituted "half" for "have." Is this normal?

My grammar is very good, but sometimes I will insert the hearing of a word rather than the actual word. When I reread it I can catch the mistakes, but I am sometimes shocked at the weird mistakes I make. It is usually stuff like "have" becoming "half" where the meaning is completely different but the sound is the same.

Is this an Aspie trait, or is it completely normal?

I do it sometimes, its a kind of ritten dyslexia I'd say

The above error was no joke, honest!

There is nothing weird about typos. Everyone makes them. Some are caused by finger fumbling or typing too fast or slow for your thoughts, but some are caused by that mental dyslexia, where we type what the word sounds like, or a similar situation. Don't worry about it. Just check before you send or print out something, so you can make corrections. I rarely like to bother with the spell checker, as I am a good speller. Normally I just do a visual check with my eye balls, and make my corrections, either as I am typing or after I finish the thing.

I have problems with the online spell checkers anyway. They seem to be British based, and I am American. America and Great Britten are two countries separated by a common language. Some of the words are pronounced differently, and some are spelled differently, so the British spell checker and I are often in cultural disagreement.

It's called malapropism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism - which is, unfortunately, my worst problem with grammar/spelling.

Ya. I do it, too. Most of my typos are correctly-spelled. Just the wrong word. Especially "their" when I meant "they're".

I make typos all the time. Usually I can't see them till some time later (an hour or so).
I have noticed whan I make spelling erors it is letters of words later in the sentence being mixed.
If I write slowly, then I forget what I'm writing...
Lanugage has never been easy for me....

I have always had a tendency to switch pairs of letters, when writing with a pen. I see that the letters are wrong, erase them and write the word again, making the same error ...

I have almost no problem with noticing the faults, but when writing, something in the neurological process of getting the hand to scribble the letters gets the order confused. In French, I always wrote "st" and had to add the initial "e" afterwards.

It is completely normal - I see strange mistakes written everywhere.