It's true. If you can read the below passage, the you are gifted. If not? Then let's just say that's your problem.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmnan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uniervtisy.
It deosnt mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? And I awlyas tghuot slpeling was ipmorantt!
I'm rbolasneay srue it's been dnoe.
this went around via e-mail awhile ago for me. ^^;
oddly enough, i can make sence of the words even when they're messed up like that. you'd think with dyslexia that it'd make it even harder.. but nuu~
this has gone around a million times and i'm sure most people can read it
it's not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of not having a mental disorder
calling a person stupid for not being able to read it is a pretty insensitive thing to do
We're gonna party like its 1998!
Well, I just copied it exactly as I read it out of my school newspaper. I've never seen this before, so that's why I posted it.
Your sig makes that very ironic.
And yeah, that is rather old. I typically don't like "This is SO old." replies, but this IS that old.
Still amusing; the first time I read it, it didn't hit me the letters were messed up until I started wondering what the hell they were talking about, because I read at a high speed...
I R SMRT.
I R SMRTR.
I cna raed it.
This is so old that I found that exact paragraph written in on of my father's school notebooks from the seventies. This predates the Internet.
I read entire sentences at once.
If can so read you this?@Cycle
He said he can read entire sentences at once... No where did he mention the ability to translate stupid.
lol Stair. I actually could and did read that instantly. 
In fact, I read it better than I did the original post: with the middle letters mixed up, I can recognise the words instantly but I can tell they're not spelt right. With your so sentence I actually had to slow down to notice there was anything wrong.
Only after reading Nuch's post did I realize Stair's post had any errors. o.o
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;P
Cookies to anyone who can decipher that. The answer is in the ALT tag of the image cunningly disguised as a period.
