Hyperlexia

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I have hyperlexia, I been able to read as long as I can remember, reading comes very naturally to me, however I have diffculty sometimes understanding what I'm reading.

I'm wondering how else on the group strongly suspects they have Hyperlexia.

Oddly enough my sister is probably dislexic, reading has always been a hard thing for her.

I'm exercising a proxy vote for my daughter. Looking at the article, I'm curious though because it seems to indicate that hyperlexia and AS are separate things whereas here Dx is AS with hyperlexia. Whatever, anyway she does exhibit many of the traits of hyperlexia. She is 4 1/2 and continually surprising us with information she could only have gained by reading although she doesn't read aloud. She didn't use verbal communication at all until age 2 and then it was in complete sentences that she had heard from us or TV that she would repeat exactly including voice inflections. However, it was clear that she didn't really know what the words mean.
I'll have to go over the list in more detail for myself. I don't really remember not being able to read, but I'm 40 so there is lots of stuff I don't remember. I do know that I've always been able to tell correct spelling and sentence structure just by wether the words look "right" or "wrong", and I often use words that I don't really know the meaning of. I used to love those vocabulary tests in school when the teacher would have you use the word in a sentence instead of repeating the definition. I was like, "Oh yeah! Playing in my house now!"

The closest I come (which isn't close at all) to hyperlexia is that I have somewhat poor reading comprehension but I can still "read". I mean, I end up understanding the words most times but my attention and comprehension are inconsistent. But I can read an entire passage aloud and not be able to tell you what I just read. But I can pronounce every word perfectly.

I think this is just more a separation of my faculties (i.e., reading pronunciation and reading comprehension) where I am obviously weaker in the latter.

I definitely have this. Amazing reading comphrenesion, I tihnk I was on a college freshmen level back in 8th grade.

Writing seems to be poorer but when I talk in short sentences occasionally something brilliant and professor sounding pops up. Hmm.....

I didn't have hyperlexia,had poor reading/spelling skills till I left junior school.

It is likely that I do. I cannot remember a time when I didn't know how to read... and the first thing I remember reading is Chronicles of Narnia around first or second grade. I also have extremely poor reading comprehension, but I know what's going on in the book.

A lot of the characteristics seem to overlap those of AS. This may also seem odd, but I tell who a person is purely by the sound of their voice.

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I have Hyperlexia. I could read fluently by four years old and read a lot of books in my childhood. I spent more time reading than my other siblings. I still have a strong love for books and information.

I don't know if I have hyperlexia, but I could read before I could speak. When I learnt to read it was something I grasped pretty suddenly. My favourite toy as a 2-3 year old was this Leapfrog phonics pond my mum got from a charity shop. She actually bought it for my older brother for him to learn how to read, but I became so attached to it I wouldn't let it go ^^;

I've always been fairly good at reading, but I don't think I'd qualify as hyperlexic.