I have a mild form of dyslexia. I know this not through any doctor’s diagnosis, but through the seer simple fact that I transpose letters and numbers on a fairly regular basis.
And it seems to be getting worse. Or at least changing.
See, I use to pretty much just swap numbers around, which made things like balancing a checkbook interesting. Instead of entering $14.95, I’ll enter $14.59. Thank the gods for Quicken, it makes finding those little errors so much easier.
Lately my dyslexia is attacking words. Sure, it would crop up now and again — I have trouble words such as ‘trial’ which I almost always type as ‘trail’. Now, I’m not a great speller so some of my spelling errors are simply bad spelling and not dyslexia.
However, I have recently developed a trend of typing words backwards. Not just transposing letters mind you, but spelling words correctly and entirely backwards. Mostly it seems to be when I type ‘the’ it will come out ‘eht’. ‘That’ has been typed ‘taht’. Just the other day I was working on a Web page and adding some code. Instead of typing ‘<div>’ I typed ‘<vid>’.
I think what is most odd it watching myself do it. My brain composes a sentence, sending the words to my fingers. Brain says “the”, fingers move, and I see “eht” appear on screen. Brain stops. Brain looks at screen and says “won s’taht ddo…”
y can’t be what was typed…
Comment by Wendi Strang-Frost — August 20, 2004 @ 9:08 am
necessarily a misspelling, but entirely the wrong — and might I just add, unrelated — word.
Not just starting to type the wrong word. The whole wrong word.
Really weird.
Comment by Gemma — August 24, 2004 @ 9:50 am