From your reply that states : "Not absolutely certain that it is my perfectionism but I'm thinking it's not. It's a matter of self-pride... how you portray yourself to the public. Kinda like "pride of ownership"?
Be that as it may... you either have it or you don't, you either care or you don't. It's a personal choice, I suppose. Maybe because I am a writer and Heather is a professional, it bothers us. Yes, she and I have the personal choice to not read those posts."

SeptemberMorn,
Please note :
Many of us are "professionals", but at a mental health support forum(s) you will find things aren't always "black and white" and there are times we have to put our "professions" aside and look into the "grey area". . . going way beyond proof reading, spellings,mispellings, grammar,punctuation, who dotted their "i's",crossed their "t's",etc.
I do agree with Heather, you and some others,that it is important to be concerned about our spelling,grammar, punctuation,typos, etc. and I understand where you are coming from on that, I am also a writer/artist, but those rules of writing at such a site as ours, which is a mental health support website and it's true purpose is not to obsess over our writing ability or disability, as some of us (including myself) did in college.
Now, this is not to be meant or taken as an offensive reply, but only to shed some light on the prime directive.
I truly understand Heather's point, except in many situations not everyone who comes here for support, wants to have additional anxiety worrying about if they are making typo errors, mispellings,etc. and maybe some of us haven't taken in consideration that there are some out there that may have some form(s) of physical disabality not always allowing their typing or spelling to be perfect. So I hope we can all meet a happy medium here on the contents of the original post by Heather and the replies that followed.
Thanks for allowing me to add my 2 cents, and I stress again this was NOT meant to be taken as sarcasm or offensive, if it is seen as that it wasn't meant to be.
Take care,
"darkeyes"

] In giving advice seek to help, not please your friend [/i]
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