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I have dyslexia and find this simulation pretty accurate. Obviously it's just a simulation though. When I read, letters aren't literally jittering around the p

I have dyslexia and find this simulation pretty accurate. Obviously it's just a simulation though. When I read, letters aren't literally jittering around the page, but I do have to do a lot of "double-takes": looking back at words and thinking hard to decode them. As a kid, reading aloud in class was always nerve wracking because of this. The game was to do these double-takes so quickly that nobody could tell you were doing all of this extra work. Often you read ahead of what you're saying so that you can double-take before saying the word.

SteveGoob 6y ago
> As a kid, reading aloud in class was always nerve wracking because of this. Yup, reading out loud was the absolute worst. I have different issues though, and because of my reading's tight associations with speech(1), I couldn't even read ahead. I think my "only-when-read-out-loud" stutter comes from the social anxiety I developed here. (1) i.e. To read words with my eyes, I have to mentally speak them to myself.