Why can some solve anagrams immediately? Jumble of letters or a good read?(theguardian.com)
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Why can some solve anagrams immediately? Jumble of letters or a good read?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/06/why-can-some-people-solve-anagrams-immediately
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My son is hyper extreme dyslexic. He spent much of elementary school years unable to read. He is amazing at anagrams as though there is no secret or mystery at all, like a normal person reading normal text.
I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia in the 1980s. I mix up d and b and write some letters upside down (numbers are not a problem, 6s and 9s, but I was told that I write my 8s upside down). I was always a prolific reader but could not spell at all.
Early 2000s I read a paragraph [1] about how people can read sentences that have the letters scrambled as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. I think it is a general phenomenon (Typoglycemia on wikipedia [2]) and not just the dyslexic.
[1]: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
[2]: Typoglycemia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#Inter...
Early 2000s I read a paragraph [1] about how people can read sentences that have the letters scrambled as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. I think it is a general phenomenon (Typoglycemia on wikipedia [2]) and not just the dyslexic.
[1]: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
[2]: Typoglycemia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#Inter...
Very interesting. It might even offer some clues on how to treat the dyslexia itself someday.