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[gwynraven]

When I was little, learning to read, I had a problem. My mother called me a 'lazy reader'. I would glance at the first and last letters in a word or phrase and then guess at the rest based on context. Often I was right, but sometimes I was spectacularly wrong

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[galdrin]

Oh - I don't think this latest is a 'relapse'. I have to do double-takes occasionally when I've read something, with hilarious effect, and have to look again and see what it *really* said. The brain just makes interesting connections. It's not anything I ever worry about ... it's sorta the way I think, winding down interesting tangents based on something that hits me just right. So, if I do it, you're in good company.

O-M-G I love your background.

[gwynraven]

my background? The parchment thingy?

[galdrin]

Oh yes - that beautiful parchment thingy. Very beautiful.

[gwynraven]

Thanks. I honestly don't remember where I got it.

[wolfette]

heh - every time I pass a work van that has "shopfitters" on it I read it as "shoplifters".

[tewok]

I do something similar, but I haven't noticed a pattern such as yours. I will misread things such that they are much funnier than they actually are. It isn't an intentional, "Okay, let's misread all the product names in this store" kinda thing, it's just something that sometimes happens. I tend to think of it as an independent subroutine in my brain that's constantly on the lookout for ways to make the rest of my brain laugh.

[eldritchhorrors]

I'm a natural speed reader and have been since I was a toddler, meaning that I don't read individual letters or words at a time, I read phrases and paragraphs at once. Apparently what happens is that my brain picks out the important words and fills in the bits between. I'm almost always correct though, and I remember what I read. I'm thinking about reading the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica.

My real problems comes when doing math. I read math problems the same way, but since the individual letters, numbers and signs have meaning I have to slow myself down and double and triple check my work. I also can't memorize formula.

[gwynraven]

Yeah, that's what I do too. But sometimes my brain fills in the wrong bits in between :)

And I have a hard time memorizing things out of a large context too. I can memorize a long poem or speech, or song lyrics, but I can't memorize chemical formulas or times tables.

[cissa]

Yes, this. That's actually the way they tried to TEACH us to read in a speed-reading section of a HS English class! Both I and another (also probably dyslexic) girl ROCKED that section. :) And I've r5ead that some places are starting to teach dyslexic kids to read using ideograms... which is sort of how I see words; the shapes, not the letters. I can remember the SNAP when I actually learned to read; the whole sounding-out-words approach just didn't work at all for me, but then BAM, I was reading words as a whole, and have ever since (and, when actually speed-reading, also sentences and paragraphs).

Like the CP, I had a hard time with math until I learned to be able to copy a number numeral by numeral at the same time as writing it; else i get the digits mixed up. Sometimes when i can't do that, it helps to say the digits out loud; then when my brain scrambles them it sounds wrong.