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I definitely cannot read “texts” of ancient languages or Russian, Arabic, etc, but I can look at it. I’d rephrase this to, “You can’t look at text and not read it for languages you know”.

That is true for me and I thought that was true for everyone, but my ex-wife, who was dyslexic, explained that she has to concentrate on reading each word, so just looking at a word would mean nothing to her.

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Any time one of those software licensing agreements comes up that you have to scroll through to accept I can do a very good job of seeing it and yet not reading any of it.

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if i unfocus my vision i can

also as upstockjock mentioned there’s different languages

Correction YOU cannot look at text and not read it. As someone with adhd i do this frequently.

You say that, but i’m really tired and i looked at this 7 times before i actually had to focus and read it

yuo cna envn look at tish snetnece and raed it wiuotht envn rllaey raeding it

an english person could look at dutch and read it without trying, because they both use the latin alphabet.

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I suppose so…I mean it wouldn’t be comprehended but sure I guess it’s “read”. Looking at an alphabet of another language is like looking at a piece of art. You don’t understand what it means but you can give it your interpretation of meaning.

yeah