Teacher Says She Suddenly Suffers From "Word Blindness" Where She Can Write But Can't Read

Gizmodo - One fateful Thursday morning, a kindergarten teacher and reading specialist—known only as M.P. for the sake of anonymity—found that the same attendance sheet she’d been using for years suddenly appeared to be covered in hieroglyphs. Not only that, she quickly realized that everything she logically knew to be covered in writing was entirely incomprehensible to her. Though she wouldn’t find out til later, M.P. has been the victim of a stroke that left her with an incredibly rare neurological disorder—one more commonly known as “word blindness.” Of course, problems reading may have been the first symptom, but it wasn’t the only thing she was having trouble with. After checking herself into the emergency room, M.P. was officially diagnosed with alexia without agraphia; in other words, she’d lost the ability to read but could still write and understand language with total clarity. It seems that the stroke had created a disconnect between her brain’s “language zone” and her visual cortex. So though visual inputs to her language zone were disrupted, other sensory inputs (auditory, for example) remained fully intact, explaining why she could still write and understand spoken English. When shown a word, M.P. could decipher it letter-by-letter with the help of tactile cues such as letter tracing. M.P. will direct her attention to the first letter, which she is unable to recognize. She will then place her finger on the letter and begin to trace each letter of the alphabet over it in order until she recognizes that she has traced the letter she is looking at. “That is the letter M,” she declares, after tracing the previous 12 letters of the alphabet with her finger while deciphering a word in front of her. Three letters later, she is able to shorten this exercise with a guess: “This word is ‘mother,'” she announces proudly. She’s currently raising money for stroke research and is even in the process of writing a memoir about her experience.

Add it to the list! We now officially have a full Top 10 Power Rankings Of Fake Disorders. How the fuck does this fake disorder even work? You can write but then don’t recognize the word you just wrote? Like you write D-O-G and blink and see a bunch of “hieroglyphs?” What a bunch of made up garbage that is. Tell me you woke up with an English accent. Tell me you can only walk backwards. But don’t tell me you can still write words and then not read them back.

Chick is probably just sick of being a Kindergarten teacher. I know I would be. Every day showing up to work and kids are shitting in their pants and eating erasers and some shit. Quickest way out of the kindergarten game is to tell the principal you can’t read anymore because of a made up disorder. Retire from teaching and go write a memoir about your bullshit stroke disease and cash in. Its the most elaborate MailTime plot ever.