Wednesday, July 11, 2018
10/ Long Paragraphs
Like many people with active or chronic Lyme, I can't read long paragraphs. Just can't do it. Something happens in my brain, and the words start to swim. Nothing gets processed. This has forced me to part company with a number of writers, and may help to explain why I like Robert B. Parker's books so much. Bring on the snappy dialogue!
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That is terrible. But also fascinating because Sophia,my daughter with dyslexia,can't either.
ReplyDeleteShe uses an e-reader and changes the font and spacing and sometimes gives up and listens to the audio book.
Her eyes just can't track.
The idea that Lyme disease manages to mimic dyslexia this way leaves me speechless.
I didn't know that about dyslexia, Bridgett. I have other neuro symptoms too. The tick bite that caused them was on the back of my neck, and had stayed, unnoticed, for several days.
DeleteI have trouble with long paragraphs too -- or long blocks of text that should have paragraphs. If I see them online (Facebook makes it difficult to insert a line break) I copy them, paste them to Word and format them myself.
ReplyDeleteI have to do that with emails from one of my friends. She has a Ph.D. in English, so her paragraphing is probably accurate. But for me, it's unreadable.
DeleteIf anyone reading this doesn't know how to make a line break on FB, simply hold down the Shift key while hitting Enter.
You may want to avoid your president's twitter account.
ReplyDeleteTrust me, I do! Ditto his rallies.
DeleteI hope that when I sometimes do my deliberate paragraph-long sentences that you will still manage to slog through them!
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly - though I am just an imitator of the master. I do remember a while ago having to punctuate a one-sentence post for you!
DeleteI hate when I've slogged through several pages of block text (nightmares of Henry James novels) and I suddenly realize that I've no idea what I'm reading. It's the literary version of a long dull commute - the reader's mind goes on autopilot.
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