Spyke
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discuss.tchncs.de

I don't have dyslexia and I always saw a G growing up... It's a lot closer to a backwards G than it is to a D

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I was trying to be silly. Did not mean to offend anyone. I was diagnosed with Dyslexia as a kid. I always felt it looked like a backwards G, but never mistook it as such.

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lemmy.world

Downvoted but reversals and dyslexia used to be thought of as linked for a long time. These days, not so much, it's just because they're shit at writing (dysgraphia) and processing. They don't even see the letters backwards.

https://www.thedyslexiaclassroom.com/blog/is-there-a-link-between-reversals-and-dyslexia

https://rcdyslexiacare.com/dyslexia-perspective/

More:

Old example of replicating how it FEELS with Dylexia trying to read. Not how it ACTUALLY presents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

https://www.dyslexia.com/question/what-dyslexics-see/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/05/health/dyslexia-simulation/index.html

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📛Mavenreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Anecdotally, and perhaps ironically, they were right, I am dyslexic, and I definitely do perceive letters as permuted quite often. The second link really chuffs me because it's clearly a non-dyslexic person openly speculating as if they're authoritative, but this theory of "3d processing" words jives with neither other literature about dyslexia, nor my own experience. I'm pretty sure this is just someone showerthinking about a disorder. The errors I make are pretty incompatible with seeing whole words from the wrong "angle"; letters are switched, sometimes even between adjacent words (I might see "angle" as "angel", or "and rain" as "an drain"), similar graphs are misread as each other (the classic example is [b / d / p / q], sometimes also g depending on font; [w / m / E], [e / a], [T / L], so on), words can be entirely displaced elsewhere in a sentence...

So yes, like, I definitely do see some letters backwards or upside down or mirrored, etc.

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ZoopZeZoopreply
lemmy.world

Mostly, I was trying to be funny. It did occur to me as a possibility, but I didn't comment it in a serious way. I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a kid, but don't seem to have that problem anymore. Either way, I have no idea where the original or any interpretation of it comes from.

People did not like it, though.

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tpyoreply
lemmy.world

I never questioned the y but always read it as a G

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I always read it as an Ð, which is am Icelandic letter. It kinda sounds like the "th" in "the", so I read it as "Thisney"

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lemm.ee

I was so confused by this as a kid.

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Thanks for the shot of "where did your youth go, old man".

When I grew up it was borrowed VHS tapes of Disne(y/p). I was born with Disney on tape. I didn't see Disnep+ until I was already a man; by then, it was nothing to me but blinding!

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lemm.ee

I always thought the first symbol was some backwards cursive G and it's weird.

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lemm.ee

I always thought the D was a G as the kid and kept wondering why the logo said "Gisney" if they were called Disney

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I always thought the moon or circle at the start of Spielberg's amblin was an O and confused about how to read it. Oh-amblin? Om-blin?

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I always thought it's spelled Disnep and pronounced Disney.

I mean English is not my native and you guys have crazier spellings.

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It took me 24 years to realize it didn't read Gisnep

You're welcome

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feddit.nl

And for the love of all that is sacred, that first letter is not a D. And I don't know what they smoked when creating it.

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4amreply

Yeah it’s literally his autograph done with an ink brush

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I still call it Disnep, despite knowing better. I believe if you make crappy design choices you should live with the consequences and everybody should call it Disnep!

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I internally go "Disnep" every time I see this to this very day!

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I always read Disneq and I will never stop saying it like that in my head.

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How is this being down voted by anyone?

Some people have no sense of humor.

Also this is hilarious

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