It is fallacious to clothe prescriptive spelling standards in the guise of "truth." Truth, as you say, is never a social construct, but spelling is. Spelling changes as culture changes; culture changes as the collective psychology of a nation changes. It is not absurd then to attempt to attribute the frustration with spelling to some sort of psychological condition.
And I have no response for your other verbiage.
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Yes, many of us have taken social science courses alongside an English degree, too. Very impressive. Except that it is, in fact, idiotic to attribute a frustration with spelling to a psychological condition. That's akin to saying that people who don't like plaid probably suffer from autism. Also, truth is as much a social construct as spelling is. Truth changes as culture changes, and the collective psychology of a nation has nothing to do with culture, because you can't properly define culture. Culture is the lovely throw-around word of the would-be intellectual attempting, rather in vain in this case, to make a deep point and impress someone. Unfortunately, mate, you're coming up a little short. Plenty of us here can read, and you can throw around a vocabulary all you like, but you're still basically attempting to argue an amalgam of anthropology, psychology, philosophy and linguistics. You've spread yourself too thin and make no actual point beyond "there is no spoon." So congratulations, Mr. Wachowski. Bang up job.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?