Serious Q: is there a form of dyslexia or processing disorder that makes it hard to even see (words in parentheses) in a sentence? Because Lyricdancer just read a sentence with a parenthetical insertion four times out loud and skipped the parentheses every time, and then when I asked her to read all four words on the first line of text (the fourth being inside the parens) she read the three then paused for several seconds before going "oh!" and reading the fourth. She says she just couldn't see it, like gold dress/blue dress. Weird! #NeuroDivergent #NeuroScience #dyslexia
@msbellows I think in written language processing they say the first and last letter are the most important and the letters in the middle can be totally mixed up but it's still easy to read. I notice in your example there are adjacent "weird" components before the first or after the last letter that make it difficult to parse for some people perhaps
@msbellows
I don't know, but I can imagine other possible reasons for it. Just a habit one picked up while young, either because they were taught/told to, or perhaps just because they couldn't figure out the purpose of parentheses themselves, decided to just skip that content until they did find out one way or another, and then just never did. Kind of a glitch in the reading skill department, software instead of hardware. In any case, it's an interesting occurrence.
@msbellows It is relatively common in people with ADHD to "miss" words or sentences I believe?