> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comme

> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers, but often times I misspell a word so completely that even the software has no idea what I'm trying to say. I also still mess up you're/your and their/there/they're all the time. In my head words are auditory not visual, so I have to put extra effort into resolving homophones. I'd actually say these kinds of mistakes are often a good indication of someone being highly fluent in a language. Isn't it more natural to write things as they're spoken rather than obey a bunch of arbitrary rules? When you learn an initially foreign language you're much more likely to pay attention to these "rules" as you don't know any better. If you speak the language well already, you will care much less whether or not your serialization of speech into writing obeys rules exclusive to that domain. Don't have any data on this but wouldn't be surprised if "dyslexia" shows up much less in people's second languages.