Posted: Jan 06, 2011 12:17 pm
paceetrate wrote:
Just to clear this up, it's because "atheist" isn't just a word with an i and an e in it. It's because it's a suffix (-ist) attached to a word "the" from "theos" meaning "god". With "a-" being the prefix meaning a negative. So it's: a (no) the (god) ist (person). "Person who does not believe in gods." Or something like that. ;P
Anyway, I was thought to be dyslexic when I was younger, although I was never tested. Mainly because I was forever getting "d" and "b" messed up. The only time I have a hard time reading now is when I'm really tired.
However, I seem to have a lot of the problems with numbers that I hear dyslexics have with written words, so I can sympathize a bit. Like you said with the not-reading-names thing, I almost never read numbers when written in text unless it's a small number, like 4 or 20. Anything more than two digits and have to slow my reading down tremendously to actually "read" it, and the more digits the worse it gets. If it's a really big number, I'll just skip it entirely and be like "really big number of blah blah blah" and keep reading.
Apparently the i before e except after c rule is redundant because there are more exceptions to it than... er, followers.
As for numbers, I do the same thing, but never thought of it before. I have a huge issue with numbers in general as I cannot seem to see them as abstract things. But I've long found that maths is worthless to my daily life. Unlike reading and writing, which present problems daily, everyone carries a calculator in their pocket on their mobile phone. I have rarely had to use maths since school where my phone calculator was not of help. My phone doesn't have a dyslexic friendly dictionary on it, though. Calculators almost always help, dictionaries only help if you know the MOST of the word you're looking for and I often don't. Not to mention that the book format is something hat drives most dyslexics to despair. When I was at school, more emphasis was put on maths than English, yet quite frankly mathematics is worthless to me and can piss off.