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wow wait this might explain a thing i’ve always been confused about. my whole life i’ve watched other people assigned to read a piece of text who skipped or substituted specific words and i never understood why that was happening. like… it seemed like they couldn’t tell???

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Visa

SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Oct 29, 2021

(h/t @personalitygeni) this is kind of wild to get into makes me realize I don't actually know how I learned how to read, it was just sheer joyful immersion for me I don't actually really (consciously) know how to teach someone to read either apmreports.org/episode/2019/0

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

there are also a couple of rationalists who are very sharp intellectually and also literally can’t spell and that really wilded me out too. one of them told me “yeah i just have to guess the spelling from how the word sounds, every time”

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Oct 29, 2021

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@QiaochuYuan

i grew up watching a ton of TV with closed captioning on and i think it made me a little synesthetic between the sounds and spellings of words. they’re very tightly identified in my head. when people say things i don’t know how to spell i have trouble remembering

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Oct 29, 2021

i have the strongest preference for wanting captions on when watching TV of anyone i know 😅 otherwise i have to work harder to parse what’s being said y’know?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Oct 29, 2021

as a kid sometimes when i was bored i would air-type my own internal monologue. it was fun to see if i could do it fast enough to keep up