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[brigid]

Thanks to oursin for this link:
Literacy in Early Modern England
We've got this modern vision of earlier humans, no matter when or where, as ignorant rubes who didn't know how to eat properly or clean themselves or travel or... read and write. This is yet another article about how humans from early modern England were more familiar with writing, and with holding a pen, than is generally thought. And I want to note that "using a pen" absolutely is a skill - not just with modern pens and pencils, but especially with old quills. It's incredibly easy to fuck them up entirely, to not be able to make a mark at all or to just leave a big old blotch.

"The Girl Who Smelled Pink
Interesting article about synesthesia. For me, personally, some numbers (10-12) have a personality or general feeling/aura about them. 12 is the vaguest and frankly might solely be the result of having had to memorize times tables but not being good at it.

Dyslexia Doesn't Work The Way We Thought It Did
Little article that doesn't go super in depth about the topic, but essentially dyslexia doesn't seem to be language related. It's a brain plasticity/memory thing.

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[oursin]

I'm trying to remember where it was - it must have been later than early modern, possibly even into the era of early oral history collecting - anecdote of the young woman who was perfectly literate or at least capable of signing her name, who nonetheless made her mark on the register when getting wed, so as not to shame her less-literate new husband.