Can I turn off Autocomplete in iOS 8?

I am legally blind, so the iPhone has always been my smart phone of choice. The keyboard input has always worked great for me and my awful vision. Not that it is easier to see, but it worked well with my sloppy typing as a result of my bad vision. Now that iOS 8 is out, all of that has gone down the drain. Because I can't see well, I cannot keep track of my typing and what it is coming up with at the same time. Now it insists on completing words that I am still typing, which results in two or three completely unrelated words. That is the worst part of the new keyboard behavior; I'm not even going to go into the random new autocorrects it comes up with, or why every proper noun in existence needs to be in all caps. I think I'm "training" it to get rid of all that nonsense. I just want my iPhone to stop finishing my words for me. I miss the iOS 7 and older keyboards. This is highly frustrating. Can anyone give me any insight on how to possibly fix this? I have an iPhone 5C.

Will that stop it from completing my words? I know I can turn off the predictive suggestions, but that's not the issue. I can choose not to take its advice. What's bothering me is that it just completes my words while I'm typing. If disabling the suggestions of predictive text will fix that, then great, but I was told somewhere else that they are unrelated. As far as autocorrection, I usually don't mind that because it fixes my sloppy typing. There are times it annoys me, but the benefits outweigh the annoyances. I just want to type words, then it decide what to do with them, but not halfway through where it comes up with something totally different, if not two or three words. Thank you for helping!

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Thanks for replying, but that isn't the answer I am looking for. Also, there is no + sign, UNLESS you do tap the overlapping boxes.
Let me try to ask my question a little more clearly:
When I tap the two overlapping boxes on the lower left (the option to Open New Windows), the new Window that appears will show your Bookmarked FAVORITES. But with my new iPhone 6, and the new iOS 8.0.2, when I tap the two boxes to open a New Window, my Bookmark Favorites show (as they always have and should), but below them, there is a dividing line underneath them, and it says Recently Viewed Websites, and has these websites available to tap.
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