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[femme_letale]

It happens without fail. Every single time I get the 152 bus to go or come back from work, I read, in one of the shop names, Pranco Shoplifters where it should have been shopfitters. My heart sinks low because for someone that wants to write obscure traitises on seduction, seductivity, seductiveness and seductology, the spectre of dyslexia is a

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[verlaine]

Hey, I misread things in amusing ways and type predictively rather correctly (e.g. "interesting" for "interested", and "enging" instead of "engine") - and I promise you that I am about as far from dyslexic as it's possible to get...

The real reason that your brain is doing what it's doing is that it has an excess of imagination - and it's moving faster than your conscious mind can keep up with. There, isn't that a nice answer to your question?

[femme_letale]

That would certainly explain why I read shoplifters! Wouldn't it be wonderful if they had a shop in Merton High Street? I like your answer. In fact, I am going to memorise it in case anyone complains about my spelling or my lack of reading attention.

[tiny_tear]

I do the shoplifters thing as well, and with me I have avaliable, frangrance and pakcaging in my top 3.

I have never been diagnosed with anything but a friend once told me i might have a form of motor dyslexia because i am clumsy and keep bumping into things and have no proper spacial awareness (strangely I'm ok when driving)

If these mistakes only happen when typing it may not be dyslexia, i think, because it's the typing thing and getting the fingers wrong and thinking faster than typing...

[femme_letale]

I suspected it might be fingers rather than brain but hey, one is a drama queen! I like frangrance, by the way. It should be written like that always!

[tiny_tear]

but frango is a chicken in portuguese, when i have to write about perfumes i keep typing frangance and thinking the perfume will smell of chicken!

[phonemonkey]

Shoplifters for shopfitters is a fairly common one - my dad and I both see it.

Another one that we always see is Brown & Poison for Brown & Polson.

[femme_letale]

Everybody seems to think it is a finger problem. I thought it was dyslexia, but it may be that the unconscious is the one having troubles. I do the poison too and if you start putting together all my mistakes you can get a pretty picture of my soul's innermost desires...

[mzdt]

I do taht a huge amount, and blame my typing entirely. I have an odd 2/3 finger bodge - the letters come out transposed a lot - 'teh' is almost a classic. It's as simple as that. Your brain is just as healthy as mine. Oh hang, that's not good...

Good to see you last night; doesn't happen often enough. Enjoy your time away...

[mzdt]

'taht' wasn't even deliberate...

[femme_letale]

I make more mistakes on PCs than Macs. That's my poor excuse asking for a new compuetr (sic!) at work. This is getting worse, I shouldn't have said anything!!!

I will enjoy my time away after Monday, when I have to visit my lovely friend the spanish dentist. It's my mother's kind Christmas present. Good to see you last night too!