Intelligence truly is a weird thing, especially when it's super concentrated. I consider myself to be an at least fairly decent C++ and Rust programmer at this point, and I know many other programming languages as well to varying degrees. And yet, I struggle to spell words that many would consider basic in English, the one and only language I natively speak and grew up speaking. I do blame part of this on learning contracted Braille so young, as one example I didn't know how to spell "necessary" until I was like 13, but I also wonder how much of it is because I don't speak any other languages, and the part of my brain that I should be using for spelling English words is being used to remember all the syntax rules of C++ templates.
Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to Quin • • •99% of that is not being exposed to enough writing.
A sighted person sees text all the time. Ads, subtitles, billboards, products, not to mention phones and computers.
The only way to fix this (as a native speaker of a language) is to overcompensate by being an extremely avid braille reader.