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kaysn t1_iu1q1iz wrote

>To you guys who dont hear voices in your head, how do u read a book.

I have never had that "voice" in my head. Even as a kid.

I see the letters and I understand the words. I have Typoglycemia. A viral meme a couple of years ago of a paragraph of jumbled letters and the challenge was to read the entire passage in one go. And I read through it without pausing. (Sidenote, the purported origin of the study was incorrectly cited.)

The most basic explanation of Typoglycemia is the brain processes words just by their first and last letters. Provided that the first and last letter are in the correct place. Even if the letters in between are jumbled, cognitive process will fill out the rest. Like a form of auto-correction.

Yes, I'm a fast reader with great retention. (I'm also pretty good in jumbled word games.) Typo errors actually bother me a lot, because I'd be staring at a word blankly. Unable to "read" it.

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deaddonkey t1_iu1zww4 wrote

Don’t most people process words like that? I’ve seen a bunch of those copypastas and they’re easy to read

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1nc0nsp1cu0us t1_iu21jh9 wrote

Yeah I just looked it up. Sounds like typoglycema is a name given to this ability to infer words from a slightly mangled scramble.

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-tealeaves- t1_iu2f497 wrote

>Typoglycemia (a portmanteau of typo and hypoglycemia) is a neologism for a purported discovery about the cognitive processes involved in reading text. The principle is that readers can comprehend text despite spelling errors and misplaced letters in the words. It is an urban legend and Internet meme that only appears to be correct.

Additional information.

Just because something is written on a shitty and clearly nonsense Facebook image your aunt shared doesn't mean it's true.

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