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The way you described "Typoglycemia" is exactly how I see new words. I have really awful vivd memories of having to read Shakespear out loud in English Lit at school during my GCSE years. So many words in that were new or uncommon.

Over the years the words have stopped jumping around less which is nice. However I still look at new words and have absolutely no idea how to pronounce them.

I think my dyslexia is very much routed in how sounds link to the glyphs, when I see a word like Typoglycemia I have to specifically recall from memory the sound that "glyce" make, it's not intuitive to me, it's entirely the fact that I've memorised it and sometimes that can take quite a while to recall.

Everyones is slightly different, my handwriting looks like I've never used a pen before, it's really quite funny sometimes.

Hope that sheds a bit of light on my experiences with it!




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