Issues with reading?

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I am a pretty slow reader compared to most people I know. Part of the reason is because I say (very quietly) each word as I read it. If I try reading silently, I have a tendency to skip over and/or transpose words and completely lose the meaning of the sentence, so I end up having to reread the same thing several times. Also, I have to "translate" the words into a mental picture or video to understand them. So, overall, much slower processing time.

If I run into a significant error in a sentence, I get somewhat confused and feel like my brain throws up the equivalent of a syntax error message, and I have to stop and reason out what it was supposed to have said.
If I come across a term I don't recognize, I have to stop and look it up. This, in certain cases, leads to me doing quite a bit of research to understand the underlying concepts associated with the term.

Does anyone else have similar experiences?

Pretty much the same. That's why I can't deal with long posts. Takes me a long time to read a book. Sometimes I have to read a paragraph over and over.

Yes, and I've posted about it before.

Yes. I don't know if my problem is exactly the same as yours but your description sounds like it. I'm far slower than other people. It probably takes me about three times as much time as it does other people to read the same thing.

I sometimes wonder if other people are not reading as carefully as I do and are missing some points. How could they read that fast and not miss anything?

I am the opposite. I read very fast and still have nearly 100% comprehension. I believe I read about 800-900 words per minute (when I am listening to music). If I don't listen to something while I read, I mentally say each word which slows me down quite a bit.