Could you stop asking?

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Okay i dont really like when people ask me do you have dislexia or make fun of my spelling.
Im not sure if some people here even see there doing it if not thats okay because im just going to exsplane to you that i dont really like being asked that it hurts me when im asked i dont let people see that but i dont like hereing this anymore because i dont have this and you cant see this online even if i did have this but we have had it looked into no i dont but i do have problems with my spelling why i never was sure but i do try very hard so all i ask is could you stop?
Not trying to be rude to you or anything but its not something i like to be jumped on for because im just someone who has a hard time like others on this site but maybe i got one other thing thats diffrent that others here dont seem to have or i dont see they have it because in my eyes i dont see what spelled wrong or right because i cant spell i go by sounds and try to spell.
just thought i ask for you not to do that anymore why because it brings things back to me thatd i dont like to think about sometimes.

im sick of arrogant aspies making fun of other aspies who have problems they dont have, be it bad spelling, being slow, overemotional, needy anything. Screw them.

I dont got aspergers from what i understand and i cant really say i got autism because they said HFA not a real diognoses i dont think.

Attacking spelling is usually a pretty weak attack. I don't know what browser you use but I think Firefox and Chrome both have built in spell checkers if you are that concerned about being unfairly ridiculed

I cant use spell check i cant understand what words even right if i did. and sometimes when i use it my spelling ends up worse.

I think I know what this is about. Someone told you in the police thread that he/she can't read a wall of text with text speak.

It was ignorant on his/her part but I don't think he or she was making fun of you. Just saying how hard it is to read it so I revised it for him/her to make it easier to read. I hope you didn't mind. I did it to help the person out and maybe you will get more responses to your thread. I do wish I can go around revising peoples posts when they're poorly written so everyone can have an easier time reading them but I am afraid how the OP would take it. I would see it as helping them out but I am afraid they might see that as me bullying them which I'm not.

And asking if you are dyslexic, I see that as a sign that they aren't so ignorant and they don't view someone as unintelligent when they write poorly because they consider that person could have a learning disability so they struggle with spelling. I often wonder myself if the person is or not.

I agree. The spell check functions will simply assist making it more readable to others. I have seen your posts a few times, and they really slow me down, because I have to sound them out, and process them with the speech portions of my brain, instead of how I normally process written things. Though, I noticed the non-standard spelling in another thread, I ignored that portion, and focused on the real issue of that - logic flaws in an argument.

Spell check is difficult for people with learning disabilities to use because words look the same to them. They don't know which spelling is the correct one. Have you ever misspelled a word and lot of alternate spellings popped up for the correct one? Have you ever tried typing in a word and the program could not recognize the word so no spelling suggestions popped up?

Spell check was made for people who have no problems with spelling and it's to correct typos so they wouldn't have to proofread. It just saves them the time.

Misspelling of words doesn't really bother me - as long as the spelling is reasonably phonetic, I can usually decipher what people are saying.

I have more of a problem with a 'wall of words." I am a fan of using paragraph breaks and using short paragraphs all-together. It just makes it easier to read.

Also, I tend not to use too much 'text speak' when I am writing. I use it more like I would a spice or seasoning. I little OMG or LOL, but I wouldn't write a whole sentence in text speak. Then again, I was an office secretary for a couple of years and tend to 1) type fast; and 2) type in complete sentences because "text speak" wasn't invented in the early 1990's and would not have been appropriate to a professional office.

Regardless - I tend not to call people on their spelling or grammar. I am more interested in what people are feeling and thinking. Also some people are dyslexic, English Second Language or may have limited education in language arts - this doesn't mean that they are not otherwise very intelligent and/or that their thoughts and feelings are less important than someone who has perfect spelling and grammar.

We all have different strong and weak points, and if yours happens to be one that is openly visible to everyone because it's the means by which you have to communicate on here, then that's a tough call.

I suggest that you might consider putting something about it in your signature. "Please don't attack me for my writing - it's not my fault - I'm not being a lazy speller - I can't help it." Something like that.

It's worth pointing out, though, that textspeak and spelling mistakes are two completely different things. I don't see any textspeak in this particular post of yours, though I haven't read the other one that's being referred to, so I can't really comment.

Also, there is just one thing that you could remember that would make your writing easier on the eye: the word "I" is a pronoun, and it requires capitalisation. I am not saying that to be arrogant or mean or sound superior, so I sinccerely hope that is not the way it comes across. (<-----Edit: look, I just noticed a little typo of my own!) I am just giving you a simple tip that would be very easy to apply and make people less likely to point these things out. I think if you were to make an effort to change just that one thing, and also add something about your problem in your signature, it would make a difference.