This happens sporadically. I have severe OCD and Depression, and I’m uncertain if it has anything to do with my mental illness. I’ve suspected I have Dyslexia for a long time, perhaps since I was eleven years old.

I’ll read a sentence, and it just won’t fucking make sense. At all. I’m not sure as to why, I’ll keep re-reading it but it just won’t make sense whatsoever. This happens a lot when I’m reading or studying. It’ll be an immensely simple sentence, but it just won’t make sense, sometimes I’ll stop what I’m doing because it gets so goddamn frustrating.

This happens with numbers as well. I’ll look at a number say, 76. And I genuinely think it says 67. I don’t know what this is. If anybody sympathizes, I’d love to discuss it.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, well some of the things you described sounds like dyslexia, but if you don’t have frequent issues with words themselves and are more having issues with just parsing ideas and meaning from sentences that could be something different.

    I’m no psychologist though, so I don’t want to try and diagnose anything beyond trying out a weighted font lol

    • vselennaya [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s quite confusing, Isn’t it? Thank you so much for your input though! Any “diagnosis” would be incredibly helpful. I’ve been doing research as to what this could be for as long as I can remember it starting.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        One last light one, have you tried going to the eye doctor? I had a similar type of issue in highschool when I didn’t have the proper glasses prescription. I could read the words, but they were hard to read and that made parts of words disappear and made it difficult to focus on the sentence as a whole.