Today’s harvest yields this gem under the title, “Girl’s upside down world,” from Lucy Waterlow of the Sun Online:
THE world of a 17-year-old girl has been turned upside down - because that is the only way she can read and write.
Gemma Williams has a form of dyslexia which means she can only understand words when she reads them the wrong way up and back to front.So from an early age, she has only been able to read a book by turning it upside down.
And when using a computer, she can only make sense of it when the screen is rotated.
But the condition has not held back Gemma, from Castleton, Greater Manchester, as a cure has been found in the colour orange.
With no disrespect to Ms. Williams, any bets about how accurately Ms. Williams reads when holding books up-side-down? Any bets about whether she would read just as well with the book right-side-up as up-side-down when reading with it right-side up and able to obtain, say, £100? Any guess how much it might have cost to find out about the benefits of the orange overlays? Any guess about reading accuracy with and without the overlays when accuracy without the overlays is worth, say, £100?
Here’s the thing: I suspect Ms. Williams actually has reading problems. I suspect the up-side-down and orange overlays are simply superstitions that haven’t been checked very carefully.
Link to Ms. Waterlow’s story. Maybe this paper is, like Weekly World News, just tugging at my leg.
Latest Comments