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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by shoes_for_thee on Monday July 13, 2020 @10:46AM (#23821312)
See, for example... when I first read this comment, I read:

"Eye movement disorder involved," then I got to the bottom of the text, and re-read it correctly. This happens to me fairly often. Am I dyslexic?

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Re:Website allows you to experience what it is like to live ... by linuxftw on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:02PM (#23823639)
This happens to me from time to time as well, not in this particular case. I think it's related to the fact that my mind has created a certain context, and I don't read with full attention. I will regularly skip over words unintentionally and "fill in the blanks".

Sometimes I think this is an artifact of occasionally looking at groups of words as a single term. If I read each word deliberately, I don't encounter this problem.

From my understanding of dyslexia, this is not it.

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