opinions on texting - frustrating to me...

[marklyn]

I use the regular keyboard when I'm texting, it's smaller than the other keyboards but looks like a regular keyboard, which I like.

I seem to be having a problem when I'm typing words where it highlights the word as I'm typing it and then when I hit the space bar it sometimes clears the word and when I type a new word, the first word is gone. I've turned off all of the touch input settings (spell correction, auto substitution, etc.)

This drives me crazy... doesn't do it all the time, but consistent enough to drive me crazy.
I wish there were a way I could type a word and, no matter if I'm misspelling it or not, what I type is what I see, no highlighting, etc.