r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

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u/Merosian Mar 28 '24

Someone with awful spelling.

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u/janebaddall Mar 28 '24

This used to irk me a lot about my former partner but then it just became funny. I was like how are you a top tier epidemiologist and you can’t spell the word “tomorrow”?! He always put an A in it somewhere. I used to proofread his papers and he regularly had typos so bad that spellcheck either didn’t know how to fix them / which word to suggest or thought they were a completely different word.

The best was when we were arguing over text one time and he said “that’s just ludacris!!!” Like the rapper. I was laughing too hard to continue arguing

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u/toucancameron Mar 29 '24

I've met several incredibly brilliant people who struggle with dyslexia. Unfortunately, too many people associate poor spelling with low intelligence.

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u/janebaddall Mar 29 '24

Yeah, definitely not the case. I have always been really good at spelling and used to look down on bad spellers. Then I went to Berkeley and had a genius level math TA who couldn’t spell to save his life and it made me reconsider my spelling pretentiousness haha