Camp Kern

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,

it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Azanmig huh? And I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I found this in someone’s profile online, and loved it! How many times did you have to read and re-read the first lin

e?  Total gibberish, I was sure.  But, slowly, after a couple of tries, it all started to make sense.  Words came out of the mess, bringing understanding and a change of perspective.  It makes me wonder, how long could you comfortably read something written that way?  A paragraph?  A page? Ten pages? A novella? War and Peace?

We all get challenged in our lives.  Challenged to do things we haven’t done before, go places we’ve never gone before, and interact with people we’ve never met before.  For me, that happened at camp.  As a kid, I was awkward and uncomfortable in most social settings.  I wasn’t very athletic, and certainly not charismatic.  Camp pushed me and molded me and gave me people to learn from.  After a week of camp, I saw things differently.  And I went back for more.  Now, I work at camp full-time.

So.  How long could you read something written differently?

Trhee was an Old Man wtih a braed,
Who siad, ‘It is jsut as I faeerd!
Two Olws and a Hen,
Fuor Lkras and a Wern,
Hvae all bliut tiehr nstes in my berad!