I always had problems with spelling. It just wasn't my thing. No other writing problems other than awkward left handed handwriting.

It was a specific strategy for my to have multiple spellings of the same word as a young kid...the hope that maybe one of the spellings would be correct.

Also I used to change my word choice to a word I could spell.

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