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i just thought of this, im a bit dyslexic (i think) but what if someone is not? then theyre lexic?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

i thidn theire dolexic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dys effectively means disorder of. Lexic reading and writing ability. It's a disorder of reading.

In the same family you have some others. Dyscalcula is a disorder of maths ability. Dyspraxia is a disorder of motor control.

Science likes Latin based words. Because it's a dead language, the meanings don't change/drift. Most scientific language can be deconstructed this way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Science might like latin words, but this one is greek. The dys- prefix means difficult, lexia means "ability with words". Oh, and greek is not dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Literate.

Hyperlexia is a thing, kids with super-reading.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

this should be a real thing for someone who can read really well and has an extensive vocabulary.

people with it are often in honors english classes and read a lot, and also figure out very minor implications of things based on word choice at ease

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Instructions unclear, I have become a lexer and now am in need of a parser and linker.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

it depends? I think there might be three states

Dyslexia, ??? (lexia, like you say?) and Hyperlexia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Wtf I'm somehow both of these

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wasn't aware of the term, but that's my mom. She learned to read before she was 3, and was reading books meant for middle school children by the the age of 4. Moved on to grown up/high school and beyond books by the time she was like 7 or 8. She's also been a life long lover of word and number games, and taught me how to count cards when I was kid. She can count cards in games with 2 and 3 decks. Got kicked out of a casino for it when she was in her 20s. Lol.

Eta:

Her sisters (closest in age is 11 years older than her) taught her to read, and all of her siblings were also young readers, but none quite as young as her.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

TIL(Today I learned) about hyperlexia thx!