The tests I have takes say I do not have dyslexia, yet I have the symptoms. Go figure. I usually can pronounce a short word if my eyes are not messing up the letters, but if the word is long and i have never seen it before, it is considerably harder. Just for the sake of discussion, pretend I have never seen this: antidisestablishmentarianism (I actually know this word, and don't have to sound it out. I just memorized what it looks like - my spellcheck dictionary didn't even have it! lol).
Anyway, I would see a word such as this as: antisdmetlsrtlitrasitmsiblinism. And that is giving it leeway (either the letters jumble, add, subtract or fuzz together). I typically only see the first and last three or (maybe) four letters in a word. If I really concentrate, I can break it into parts like this: anti dis est ab lish men tar ian ism. I literally have to make it so that my eyes only see each of these sections at a time. If my eyes even try to look at one of the neighboring sections, they become dyslexic and mix everything around again. I am a fan of pronunciation guides.
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