Trouble with capitalization on messages and texts

[AC Question]

I just got a new Samsung Galaxy S8 and the swype keyboard is not making me very happy! I have the auto capitalization setting turned on, but when I type a text sentence it still doesn't capitalize the 1st letter. I've come to discover that it's doing this because, for some reason, it's automatically inserting a space before the 1st letter of whatever I'm typing (so it doesn't see it is the 1st letter) therefore, it does not capitalize it. What's up with that?