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If you grew up speaking German, you would not have ever found out that you were such a bad speller. Why? Spelling is trivial in German, as is in Spanish. Words are spelled just like they sound. There is no Spelling Bee in Germany. I cannot think of any language other than English where people can compete in nationwide spelling competition. English language has tons of weird ass exceptions with spelling so you pretty much have to learn each word. Perhaps your terrible spelling is indicative of your brilliant mind. Perhaps it is trying to tell you that these spelling rules do not make any sense. And it would be right.
Our culture has some fascination with extraordinary aptitude at one thing accompanied by extraordinary deficiency at others. Some that comes to my mind are: Sylvia Plath, a literary genius, is overcome by depression and bipolar disorder, John Nash, a mathematical genius plagued by schizophrenia. When I think of geniuses, the first thing that comes to my mind is some form of absent-minded professor type. It's easy to forget that many, if not most, "geniuses" were seemingly quite normal and free of any obvious defects. Linus Pauling, John von Neumann, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Robert Oppenheimer all with towering intellect did not suffer from any obvious defects.
Perhaps if you turn out to be really brilliant and make some memorable contribution to history, maybe your biographer will devote a paragraph or two on your biography about your difficulty with spelling and how it was fortunately overcome with dilligent application of nascent spell-checking technology.
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