Re: Blind Misspelling Issue
I went to a mainstream school. I was taught spelling right along with everybody else, and I was a quick study. I began with grade 1 braille, was asked at first to use it on spelling tests, but in grade 3 or 4 (about the age of 8 or 9) I made the argument that by using a symbol for a contraction, I was still using the letters. If you're using the symbol for o-u, I said, you were still aware that you needed those letters; I even argued that to ask me to go back and forth between grade 1 and grade 2 gave me a greater potential for mistakes, which is true. They caved.
I still spell words wrong sometimes, but almost never everyday English words. It's just...never been an issue for me. Ever since I can remember, I've known how to spell, or at least how to check and see that my spelling is right. The idea of writing j-u-r-n-a-l for journal, for instance, just boggles my mind because I was never left alone in an environment where I couldn't check my work and wasn't expected to. Most misspellings of mine nowadays come from proper names (usernames, character names, places, etc), or from typos. God knows I make some of those, just like everybody else.
To those passively suggesting that some people think it's okay that we fuck up spelling, I disagree. If there's a legit learning issue and you're still getting your point across, then okay fine, I don't care. But if your only excuse is that you're blind, then that's not an excuse at all.
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