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Not everyone reads like that. A good test to note if people uses pattern recognition is the way they pronounce a character proper noun after reading a book: I never can pronounce a character's name at the end of a book as I have never actually "read" it but only "recognized" it.

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I also don't read aloud in my head for the most part. I get caught with this exact problem with character names -- I have to sound it out for the first time when I try to say it.

However, you are making a different point. Anyone who reads 'fluently' recognizes the shapes of words in one glance -- whether he reads aloud in his head or not. No one is looking letter-by-letter.

I know exactly what you mean. More than once I've read the book and on the second-to-last page I've realized that I have been reading (and mentally pronouncing) the name of the protagonist incorrectly.

I have other similar dyslexic traits to the OP. I can read and write well but I can't read out aloud. I don't usually find reading books enjoyable and I need to have code snippets and math formulae to break the wall of text.

But is this really a dyslexic trait? I use this method of reading most of the time by default because it allows me to read much much faster than reading the whole thing out. I often get pissed of at badly written text because of this because it slows me down a lot. For technical text it's often impossible to do this.

This is not a dyslexic trait. It is just a method very popular among dyslexic people as it is much easier for them to read this way

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