Letters not operating as complete shape

Hello! I’m still relatively new to this, so I’m not sure what the issue is. Whenever I export my type to use in Illustrator or motion media, some letters are divided into the shapes I used to design them in rather than the letter being one complete letter form (Attached an example). What is this and how do I solve? Thank you!

There’s an export option for this called Remove Overlaps. In the design, make sure that the elements really touch, or better, even overlap a few units.

Thank you! This is helping my problem, but has led to another. What is this notice a symptom of?
Screenshot 2024-09-06 at 1.37.10 AM

I would inspect that glyph. Probably a path direction issue. Take a look at this tutorial please:

Thank you! Helped me clean up and fix everything