Lysdexic tumble; when numbers meet letters
 So many websites have ‘captchas‘ now… those combos of jumbled letters and numbers. What of the dyslexics who tumble them both? 3 and E, come on guys, they look the same. A and 4 and 7. Where’s the difference? 2 and 5 and s? 8 and B? d and 6 and 9 and b and p and q? W and M? Z and N? I and 1? F and H? O and 0? u and n? Anyone else have this alphanumerical soup? When I was 9 I was struggling with lots of these and got through that enough to read even though visual verbal agnosia means I still read without meaning unless I use gestural signing and I still use my BPI tinted lenses for Scotopic Sensitivity so the print doesn’t swim about on the page. But these ‘captures’, I’m sure I take 3 times longer to get one right than most people. Ah, they don’t design the world for funky brains like mine.
Donna Williams *)
