I think rapidcharger and I made the same mistake in the same thread, thinking the poster was intentionally making a change in a word, almost as a joke, so we took it that way.
As rapid said in his post here, nothing else in that OP's posts indicated that he (or she) had any issues, as only the one word was spelled wrong in each post, over and over.
I was subsequently notified via PM that the poster in this particular thread had autism.
So, apologies to that person, I meant no harm.
As for the idea that disabled people are mostly rude, I dispute that notion vigorously! Firstly, my nephew, who is 20 years old, has Autism and is one of the nicest people I know. His friends, many of whom are "on the spectrum", are also very nice, polite young people.
In addition, I spent five years reading to the blind in NYC at a place called TAB: The Associated Blind, and everyone I read to was SO grateful that I was there volunteering my time.
Are there disabled people that are rude? Of course, just as there are rude people who have all of their faculties. I've met plenty of the latter and fewer of the former, in fact.
I like Wayne's idea of perhaps adding a note, either in your signature or, if that isn't feasible, in the beginning of your post, indicating that you have certain issues with spelling or sentence structure.
Spell checking isn't a bad idea, as has been suggested. I use Tapatalk on my iPhone to post here most of the time and the spell check does help, although sometimes it gets in the way, as when technical jargon is being used, or slang that the program just doesn't know. It also doesn't correct sentence structure and grammar. That's on me.
I also refute the notion that most of us here on RR are disabled. That just makes no sense at all!
73 to all,
Jim
As rapid said in his post here, nothing else in that OP's posts indicated that he (or she) had any issues, as only the one word was spelled wrong in each post, over and over.
I was subsequently notified via PM that the poster in this particular thread had autism.
So, apologies to that person, I meant no harm.
As for the idea that disabled people are mostly rude, I dispute that notion vigorously! Firstly, my nephew, who is 20 years old, has Autism and is one of the nicest people I know. His friends, many of whom are "on the spectrum", are also very nice, polite young people.
In addition, I spent five years reading to the blind in NYC at a place called TAB: The Associated Blind, and everyone I read to was SO grateful that I was there volunteering my time.
Are there disabled people that are rude? Of course, just as there are rude people who have all of their faculties. I've met plenty of the latter and fewer of the former, in fact.
I like Wayne's idea of perhaps adding a note, either in your signature or, if that isn't feasible, in the beginning of your post, indicating that you have certain issues with spelling or sentence structure.
Spell checking isn't a bad idea, as has been suggested. I use Tapatalk on my iPhone to post here most of the time and the spell check does help, although sometimes it gets in the way, as when technical jargon is being used, or slang that the program just doesn't know. It also doesn't correct sentence structure and grammar. That's on me.
I also refute the notion that most of us here on RR are disabled. That just makes no sense at all!
73 to all,
Jim
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