Does anyone else have spelling problems?

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I was diagnosed with Asperger's a few months ago at the age of 57. I've been impressed by the tremendous explanatory power this has for a number of things that have puzzled me over the years.

Yesterday I was Googling Ludwig Wittgenstein and autism to see if anyone else thought he might have been autistic. The answer was yes. One discussion I found mentioned his poor spelling as a symptom. I'd never heard this mentioned as a symptom of autism before.

I myself had poor spelling as a child and through high school, despite reading at a high level and scoring very well on the verbal aspect of the SAT. My spelling has improved over the years due to learning finger spelling and the immediate feedback of spell check.

Has anyone else had this problem or heard of this being linked to autism?

I've had problems with spelling my whole life. My grammar also isn't that good.

Hm, I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I was always obsessive about my spelling and was proud as an elementary school student, to have never misspelled a word on a spelling test for four or five years in a row. Spelling is almost completely a visual thing for me as I learned all the required words by visualizing them in front of me. On the other hand, my little brother (the only other person in my immediate family who exhibits serious symptoms of autism), is an absolutely atrocious speller.

Mostly due to a lack of exposure to written language (not so much a problem with my English, where collocability is a more topical issue).

I have problems with spelling checkers. My spelling is good, but occasionally I use the wrong word -- There/Their/They're, or Right/Rite/Write, for example -- and the spelling checkers aren't designed to put in the correct word for you if the wrong word is spelled correctly.

yeah i have problems with spelling also.

I also end up re reading what i write multiple times and deleting parts and re writing them differently.

Natural speller, never lost a spelling bee - even won a local championship.

Ive allways bean purfict at speling, I reamber at sckol the techer sayying I wood be an aufer when I greew up as my speling was so good.

I've never heard of it linked to autism but I've had problems with spelling my entire life. I'm unable to learn the spelling of some words I have used probably thousands of times. My spell checker is on 24/7. I also have extreme difficulty with the rules of grammar but I can fake it somewhat by mimicking writing styles (misspelled writing, yet again) I have seen. I don't know why I have such a hard time with the rules of language. Ideas anyone?

I don't really have issues with spelling or grammar. In fact, writing is a passionate hobby of mine.

I was rather poor at spelling up until I was about nine. I was also a slow, laborious reader until this time, and behind my age group for reading level.

When I was nine years old, something in my brain clicked. I began to read novels, and my spelling level jumped from spelling level 3 to spelling level 10 in a matter of months. By the time I was twelve, I was reading at the level of an adult, with a vocabulary to match.

I have never had any major issues with grammar, but it took me some time to understand punctuation and where a paragraph should end.

BTW: Here is a link to the article on Wittgenstein. The comment on his trouble with spelling is a little way into the article, in the first bullet point.

http://autisticsymphony.com/wittgenstein.html