I will admit I am one of the people you talk about. It's not something that I'm proud of, but I can't spell for beans. I don't know why! I have an excellent memory, but I can not retain the spelling of a word. It's been a problem all my life.

I can not tell how painful(mentally)it is to try to write something. Knowing you're going to freeze up when you get to a word you're not sure about and the more you think about it, the harder it is.

Does it mean that I'm dumb, maybe. Does it mean I have a problem, yes. A problem that has never been able to correct itself. Could be I have huge gaps in my education. I went to 12 schools out of 12 grades. Different districts, different states, and different countries.

The main problem I see is, no one helped me when I was in school and it should have been identified and rectified.

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