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Dicky Ticker
20-05-09, 08:53 AM
Can it become more severe as you get older as I keep mis-reading things
i.e Action camera was atomic camera


Or, is it just the ramblings of a befuddled mind:D with some hilarious results

Holdup
20-05-09, 09:08 AM
People do read what they want, normaly only if the first and last letter are the same as what you want to see, e.g. once i was rining some one with last name "Durling" that name is not stored on my phone but when it said "Dialing" i thought it said "Durling" i wouldnt worry if i were you untill you notice it a lot more. I would of also thought that you would notice it more in your spelling as well.

RatchetJob
20-05-09, 09:56 AM
To illustrate your point Holdup:

Arocdnicg to rsceearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. Tihs is buseace the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

pookie
20-05-09, 10:17 AM
very good..works a treat but I bet it doesnt work with chinese

Viney
20-05-09, 11:32 AM
Can it become more severe as you get older as I keep mis-reading things
i.e Action camera was atomic camera


Or, is it just the ramblings of a befuddled mind:D with some hilarious results
If this is so then verna is a Grade one. She read Architectural Salvage as Architectural Sausage!

missyburd
20-05-09, 11:35 AM
No, I'm not dyslexic but I do find I read stuff wrong sometimes, it amuses me more than anything else. If it starts to become more of a burden than a quirk then it could be more serious but tbh if you're tired and not thinking straight then it will happen more often. I wouldn't worry about it :-)

ophic
20-05-09, 11:38 AM
I do the same thing occasionally. I make assumptions about what something says with only a brief glance. Then a few seconds later it sinks in that it doesn't make sense and I go back and read it properly.

It's been happening more lately. I must be going nuts at the ripe old age of 32 :mad:

missyburd
20-05-09, 11:45 AM
It's been happening more lately. I must be going nuts at the ripe old age of 32 :mad:
Well I'm 21 and I do it loads at the moment, probably because I've been tired and stressed a lot of late. It's worse being a student though, for one of my recent exams I read the word "paraphyletic" as "paralytic" on more than one occasion, I was so paranoid I'd end up writing that in the exam!!

Jamiebridges123
20-05-09, 12:15 PM
I have slight dyslexia, it's not really that strong..

I can type fine, and talk and write without really many issues and the like but I sometimes muddle up words, not you're/your or the like, but more often things like queue/cue or something. I also, when writing.. get p's and b's and d's muddled up, or read a number as 1437 when it's actually 1347 or something. Didn't have a problem a year ago, started creeping along over the last year or so and in the last 6 months it's started to really irritate me. It comes in, or goes out of my mind right, but it comes out wrong. :D

Perhaps it's just stress, maybe it's something to do with being this age, maybe it's because I'm bored or have other things on my mind.

G
20-05-09, 05:38 PM
Dyslexia the excuse thing?

Bluepete
20-05-09, 07:11 PM
There are different types of dyslexia. Some have problems with numbers, some with letters, some with spelling, some wit reading. It's not an excuse at all. I was diagnosed at 15 years old when my brother was struggling during his A levels. As it can be hereditary, when he was tested, so was I. I have cross lateral dyslexia. Doesn't hold me back, never claimed extra time in exams or such like.

Have a look at the RSDH - the Royal Society for Helping Dyslexics. Very helpfull bumch od people.

Pete

ArtyLady
20-05-09, 07:13 PM
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Or, is it just the ramblings of a befuddled mind:D with some hilarious results

This one probably ;) :lol: