Is it normal to read words wrong, and continue to do so, without noticing?

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Note, I've never actually talked about this with anyone just because it doesn't hinder my learning or understanding at all, it just makes me look like an idiot sometimes.

Sometimes when I'm reading anything I tend to mix up or completely skip letters when I pronounce, spell, or read them in words. I actually can't come up with many instances off the top of my head, but certain words like unnecessary I legit can't spell without looking it up. Sometimes it's just smaller words like foil that I'll mis-write as 'foli', or phrases like 'with the' that I mis-write as 'withe'. And as someone who's had pokemon centered around most of their life, I always seem to mess up the name because of overlooking letter placement and will legit not notice until someone says the name out loud (I remember two I had trouble with were kecleon and suicune).

I'm wondering if anyone else does this, and if it's normal. It doesn't hinder me at all so I'm not worried about it, just curious

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  • LloydAsher
    4 years ago

    I got dyslexia too. How I overcame it and how I use countermeasures against reading faults is to recognize the context of the surrounding text and if words dont match up re read it. Dyslexia isnt blindness so you can force your brain to recognize words. Best way to train this is by reading out loud. By reading out loud, it slows how fast you read and gives you better insight on what its saying.

    Edit: had to proof read my own comment, found grammatical errors and fixed them. Didnt want to be a hypocrite.

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  • Tealights
    4 years ago

    Dyslexia.

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago

    I'm no expert, but it sounds like you may be dyslexic at the milder end of the spectrum.

    Google 'dyslexia test' and see how you score.

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  • [Old Memory]
    4 years ago

    dyslexia? Sounds like one of my friends who has that and he’s a lot like you have said. One day he even said “that’s so wired” and didn’t even really notice he said weird with the letters in the wrong spot. And he said it in person. He’s not great at reading and usually listens to books on tape.

    I notice lots of my family are the same when it comes to reading and it’s like they hurry cause they’ll see a long word starting with a letter and like assume what it is. I always catch on and even sometimes it makes no sense yet they don’t notice. Idk if it’s normal or not but I’m sure I do it too and don’t notice. I have a hard time focusing when reading.

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