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While I agree with the other comments that it wasn't impossible to read these letters, I could feel a real strain on my eyes and thought process while reading t

by asadjb 9y ago

While I agree with the other comments that it wasn't impossible to read these letters, I could feel a real strain on my eyes and thought process while reading the page. I had to "concentrate" in-order to understand each letter, something I don't have to do with normal text. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to constantly have to read everything like that. Also, while most words were easy to make out, the ones that I don't use in everyday life; like "Typoglycemia" were impossible to figure out. I had to check what it was linked to.

Klathmon 9y ago
I have some mild dyslexia, and for me the biggest thing is that the letters don't "jump around", they are permanently out of place, or in some cases letters are consistently "added". I play a videogame where there is a character named "Medivh" (pronounced ma-deev). Even knowing that, even having played that character for over a year, I still read it as med-va. And a lot of words are like that, I'll be reading along and hit a word like constantly and read it as "consistently" even though it doesn't make sense, then get confused and need to re-read. Or like in your second sentence I read "concrete-trate" and had to reread it to make sense of the word.
- seba_dos1 9y ago
  Switching letters and words like what you described happens to me occasionally *but not consistently) when I'm really tired or not fully awake yet. Just wondering - do fonts like https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/ make it easier for you to read?
  - Klathmon 9y ago
    I don't know if openDyslexic works for me, I really don't like the look of the font and haven't really read it long enough to see if it makes a difference.
- naikrovek 9y ago
  Is it easier to type with your eyes closed? I guess I don't know if it's the eyes doing things wrong or some language center somewhere in the mind.
  - Klathmon 9y ago
    Neither really when it comes to typing, just the occasional instance where i get "lost" and end up just typing gibberish and need to go back a sentence or 2. For me I don't think it's a visual thing, it happens regardless of font, size, or how easy it is to see at the moment.
bluehatbrit 9y ago
The way you described "Typoglycemia" is exactly how I see new words. I have really awful vivd memories of having to read Shakespear out loud in English Lit at school during my GCSE years. So many words in that were new or uncommon. Over the years the words have stopped jumping around less which is nice. However I still look at new words and have absolutely no idea how to pronounce them. I think my dyslexia is very much routed in how sounds link to the glyphs, when I see a word like Typoglycemia I have to specifically recall from memory the sound that "glyce" make, it's not intuitive to me, it's entirely the fact that I've memorised it and sometimes that can take quite a while to recall. Everyones is slightly different, my handwriting looks like I've never used a pen before, it's really quite funny sometimes. Hope that sheds a bit of light on my experiences with it!
jakelazaroff 9y ago
Same. And imagine how much harder it would be to build a vocabulary if every time we encountered a new word, you had just as much trouble with it as we just did with "typoglycemia".

by asadjb 9y ago

Klathmon 9y ago

I have some mild dyslexia, and for me the biggest thing is that the letters don't "jump around", they are permanently out of place, or in some cases letters are consistently "added". I play a videogame where there is a character named "Medivh" (pronounced ma-deev). Even knowing that, even having played that character for over a year, I still read it as med-va. And a lot of words are like that, I'll be reading along and hit a word like constantly and read it as "consistently" even though it doesn't make sense, then get confused and need to re-read. Or like in your second sentence I read "concrete-trate" and had to reread it to make sense of the word.

seba_dos1 9y ago
Switching letters and words like what you described happens to me occasionally *but not consistently) when I'm really tired or not fully awake yet. Just wondering - do fonts like https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/ make it easier for you to read?
- Klathmon 9y ago
  I don't know if openDyslexic works for me, I really don't like the look of the font and haven't really read it long enough to see if it makes a difference.
naikrovek 9y ago
Is it easier to type with your eyes closed? I guess I don't know if it's the eyes doing things wrong or some language center somewhere in the mind.
- Klathmon 9y ago
  Neither really when it comes to typing, just the occasional instance where i get "lost" and end up just typing gibberish and need to go back a sentence or 2. For me I don't think it's a visual thing, it happens regardless of font, size, or how easy it is to see at the moment.

bluehatbrit 9y ago

The way you described "Typoglycemia" is exactly how I see new words. I have really awful vivd memories of having to read Shakespear out loud in English Lit at school during my GCSE years. So many words in that were new or uncommon. Over the years the words have stopped jumping around less which is nice. However I still look at new words and have absolutely no idea how to pronounce them. I think my dyslexia is very much routed in how sounds link to the glyphs, when I see a word like Typoglycemia I have to specifically recall from memory the sound that "glyce" make, it's not intuitive to me, it's entirely the fact that I've memorised it and sometimes that can take quite a while to recall. Everyones is slightly different, my handwriting looks like I've never used a pen before, it's really quite funny sometimes. Hope that sheds a bit of light on my experiences with it!

jakelazaroff 9y ago

Same. And imagine how much harder it would be to build a vocabulary if every time we encountered a new word, you had just as much trouble with it as we just did with "typoglycemia".