This post made me think of it as it’s a good example of this.
Every now and then I encounter writing like this (often it’s something someone is showing me) and I just read it, and then I re-read it and then I re-re-read it and my mind just stays completely blank and I have no clue of what it’s saying. This seems to be happening to me quite regularly and honestly I feel quite stupid. I’m wondering if this is some ADHD / autism thing, granted that english is not my first language. However, like I said, it’s not that I don’t understand the words - just not the meaning of them together.
I understood it with context clues. Reading things on the internet definitely feels like I am reading an entirely different language sometimes.
Sometimes when I am scrolling past things, I pickup the words wrong because the words are matched to the look of a word instead of what the word says because I am not actively reading. That results in me reading headlines very wrong because my stupid brain filled in too many gaps and error corrected the headline to say wild shit. I scroll up to find out more and see the mistake.
I wish I had an example.Example: “Snow flurries are rare in US south – now a blizzard has hit”
I read that as “Snow furries are rare in US south – now a blizzard has hit”
The headline makes sense, but the entire meaning changes entirely because my brain gave me the wrong word.
Without knowing the details or the reality of what is being discussed, I found the post pretty easy to parse:
there’s some trend where people are putting pictures of people/things they want to bone on cakes, women are putting all sorts of weird stuff on the cake, therefore the problem isn’t how attractive/unattractive you are.
It’s targeted at incels, it’s funny, and it makes sense even if I have no idea about the apecifics or if it ever really happened.
If someone on the internet can’t make heads or tails of this, I worry about their media literacy.