I bet we invented the word dyslexia so they won't know we're writing about them

https://lemmy.world/post/20808570

I bet we invented the word dyslexia so they won't know we're writing about them - Lemmy.World

What’s this got to do about my Dyson?
I don’t want my son to dy!

You think that’s fucked?

The inability to pronounce “R” is called Rhotacism.

If you have it you’re literally unable to say the name of it

Relevant XKCD

18 across says “every third letter in the word for “inability to visualise””.
You’d need to figure out what word this is, and then visualise every third letter of it. Which you can’t do if you have it!

The word is

Aphantasia

A Crossword Puzzle

xkcd

I have aphantasia, and you don’t actually need to visualize anything to do that.

I, for example, have a constant verbal stream, so I’d just spell it out audibly in my head, and tick off every third letter.

So the answer for 18 across was aaaa?
Yep, the whole crossword puzzle is like that.
That’s awefull and hilarious at the same time!
The fear of long words is called “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.”

I have a very sexy learning disability.

What do I call it Kid?

From Oxford Languages (what Google uses):

late 19th century: coined in German from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek lexis ‘speech’ (apparently by confusion of Greek legein ‘to speak’ and Latin legere ‘to read’).

Good to know, in general, but the irony of this term is still funny to me.
all those kinds of imparements are puns. like haveing a lisp. or to stutter. all speech and reading imparements are words that are hard to pronounce or read by the people affected. no idea why. just saying its the rule and no exception.