Your experience with hyperlexia

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Is there no one who is still affected by it? Everybody is talking about childhood but I still get problems cause of it.

I read anything in my environment, still. I wouldn't say it causes problems, aside from people wondering why I actually read the MSDS (material safety data sheets) and labels.

I learned to read by age 4. Started school a year early because of it. Reading college level textbooks by age 8. I read constantly, at least a book a day and have for years. I also have a "splinter-talent" of high reading speed.

Yes, it still affects me, every day.

I basically spend every waking moment that I don't have something else to do looking for things to read.

My use of language was affected well into my teens, and I still had a scattering of issues throughout my 20s. It was a lot rarer in my 30s, and I really haven't run into any complications over the past few years.

The issues in my 20s and 30s were mostly not knowing how to pronounce words I knew. This coincided nicely with my difficulty perceiving friendly teasing from malicious teasing.

I learned to read by age 3 and knew simple words by age 2. I don't think I was diagnosed officially with hyperlexia though. For me its part of the autism. But as I got older and yes I am old (28) I am getting more dyslexic. I reverse letters constantly and write entire words backwards. My spelling isn't as impressive as its used to be. I used to spell perfectly and now I really have to think before I spell. My reading deteriorated as well. I can't read out loud without messing up a simple word. So, I have aspects of both dyslexia and hyperlexia.