What amazed me was reading my gransmother's accounts of how she learned to spell... She only got through her first year of college, but I would have never known that. Btw, I've seen some pretty atrocious spelling from a few sighted people, but it's generally different from what a friend of mine calls "blind spelling." Some misspellings by blind people can also be attributed to people learning contracted braille without a solid grasp of what the contractions stood for... Some children are allowed to do spelling tests by writing the contracted form of the word. I was required to provide the contracted form and the full spelling; thus I got a braille test and a spelling test.