Back in 2015, a paragraph went viral where most of the words were scrambled. It is an example of a Typoglycemic paragraph. Typoglycemia is the ability to recognize and understand misspelled words when the first and last letters stay the same as they were in the original word. Typoglycemia is closely related to dyslexia, as there are many similarities, but there are also some differences that help separate them so they can be easily identified. Typoglycemia and dyslexia are not completely different because there are still some similarities. Some of the similarities between dyslexic and typoglycemic texts are that they both contain scrambled and rearranged words but the first and last letters always stay the same. While they are both readable …show more content…
Typoglycemia is the minds ability to decipher scrambled words. The word Typoglycemia comes from the rots typo, or a typing error, and hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Typoglycemia was meant to be funny as it is a typo on hypoglycemia but refers to typos. As long as the necessary letters appear in the word, it is easy to unscramble typoglycemic sentences. Typoglycemia started with a man named Graham Rawlinson, when her sent a letter to his friend and all the words were spelled wrong. When reading a typoglycemic text your reading time slows down because your brain is taking longer than usual to understand the words trying to be formed. Some factors that may affect the deciphering process include the length of the word, the order of the scrambled letters, the content of the phrase, the grammar of the word, and the surrounding context clues. Dyslexia is a neurologically based disorder which interferes with the process of spelling and reading. The exact causes of Dyslexia have been determined by researchers that a gene on the short arm of chromosome number six is responsible for causing dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most common learning disability that affects 10-15% of the population that consists mainly of men. The disorder also occurs in 60% of people who have