Pasting text without the grey backspace/tight paste

Hi, this question also applies to my MacBook touchpad...
I will select text, then right-click to copy or cut, the select a place to insert my cursor and paste.  However, even if there is a space after the word where I want to insert, a grey shaded area appears and it pastes attached to that word in the sentence, then I have to hover the mouse, insert the cursor and hit the space bar in order to separate the two words.  Sometimes it will overwrite a whole word if I try to insert the text before a new paragraph.  This never happens in a PC unless you specifically place the cursor tight to another word before pasting.
I don't wan't to use keyboard shortcuts, so any advice for just the mouse/touchpad only as to what's wrong or how to disable this would be greatly appreciated.

Nope. An external text editor is the best method.

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