I went and took a minute, so I'm going to ignore the last few posts. cote, I'm never sure how much point there is trying to talk to you about this, because honestly, it feels as if you simply want to hurt. However: you say
Whatever the reason is that you keep making these mistakes, if I were you, I would not rest until I have mastered them. Whatever it takes, and however I have to work on them. We are all different, obviously.
I know you believe this to be true. I'm sure you feel (as you imply here) that you're just someone who works harder, and is more conscientious, and you'd use those wonderful character traits to master mistakes.
But, you know, I do try. Really, I do. I've spent so much time working on this. But really, all I am mentally equipped to do is to contain the worst of it, and learn how to keep asking for help with proofreading. Honestly, highly trained professionals have assessed me and they know this isn't something I am ever likely to learn. That's not a 'woe is me' post: the point is, you're wrong to think this is always something that can be learned - however hard you're willing to work.
I can only imagine that you were not given a written exam for this position where you wrote "I would of found it difficult to pass my degree's in another language", for example.
No, as I have said, for this job, I was given an application form where I could ask for allowances for my disability. And they made allowances: there were typos in there, and they accepted that. Not everyone is going to judge as unnnecessarily harshly as you.
I don't know how familiar you are with today's competitive job market, but usually a hundred CVs arrive for each position and you can bet that the one with perfect spelling and grammar will be chosen for an interview before one with glaring mistakes.
I love that you think a hundred CVs is an example of 'today's competitive job market'. You have no clue how competitive academia is. And yet, actually, people do want to help you out. I am sure sometimes my CV has been rejected for glaring mistakes (though, frankly, I feel it's much more likely I lost out for the right reasons - that someone else was better than me).
But demonstrably, employers do not always discriminate against people like me. If they did, I would not have this job. I don't know why you're so bothered by the fact that I do have this job, and that I have somehow managed to cope in the world without learning how to eradicate all errors.
To me, this is an example of the fact that many people are willing to give someone like me a chance. I appreciate that so much. I feel so lucky. I think people who have dyslexic children ought not know that it is possible for a dyslexic person to get a job, even a job that requires quite a high level of written English.
Yes, of course employers will still be biased, and will use crude measure to whittle down numbers of CVs, and of course some jobs are not compatible with these errors.
But there is some hope. There are some positives.