TBH, I've been reading since I was 2 and I'm very good at spelling, but I suck at phonics and I hate it when people spell words to me without saying them first when I'm typing because I learned to type by chatting and I type the way I read, whole words (which is to say, my hands know the keystroke combinations, but not individual letters). The way I do spelling is I see the word in my mind and read the letters off; I have always sucked at sounding things out, and I too have an auditory processing disorder.

I think if I'd been forced to learn to do everything phonetically I would also suck at spelling, because spelling is the enemy of phonetics anyway, otherwise enough and cough would sound the same!

Niko is so cute.