All through High School, I struggled in English class. I never broke a C in any English class I ever took. When I got to college, I managed a B in my Freshman English class. I find myself looking up those pesky grammar rules, and even submitting tickets and patches to emerging open source projects which were written by people like me-- lots of spelling errors and some ugly grammar mistakes.
I've contributed to Django's documentation. I submitted a patch to fix "noone" ("no one" is correct.) in a couple places on the open source MMORPG called "The Mana World."
I've become almost a professional note taker, and I get irked when I have a teacher who uses all caps in an outline, or consistently spells something wrong that a spell checker is sure to have complained about.
I was driven nuts when I opened a handout ...