This post made me think of it as it’s a good example of this.

Every now and then I encounter writing like this (often it’s something someone is showing me) and I just read it, and then I re-read it and then I re-re-read it and my mind just stays completely blank and I have no clue of what it’s saying. This seems to be happening to me quite regularly and honestly I feel quite stupid. I’m wondering if this is some ADHD / autism thing, granted that english is not my first language. However, like I said, it’s not that I don’t understand the words - just not the meaning of them together.

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    4 hours ago

    Happens to me every time I read an article on quantum physics. Pretty sure the universe is just messing with us at this point.

    And there’s a small but significant number of people on the internet who use “can” and “can’t” interchangeably.