Forget how to read?

Factual Questions
1

Is it even possible to forget how to read? And i don’t mean forgetting how to read a forein language i mean a persons native tongue.

I have seen people attribute drops in literacy skills in some countires to lack of use basically,and i just don’t think its possible.

2

I have no clue, but it’s a neat question, so I’ll bump this from Page 2 for ya, see if anybody else has any ideas.

The summer reading program people push summer reading programs because, they say, otherwise kids’ reading skills deteriorate over the summer, but I’ve never heard anyone say that you could forget how to read altogether, barring something like a stroke or brain injury.

3

if you don’t read or use (or even think in your mind) the language for 30-40 years it isn’t so surprising, is it?

that said, it is easier to read english because of the alphabets etc. you can forget the word but you’ll still be able to read it if you remember the alphabets. Chinese on the other hand…

4

I would think that it depends on when you learn to read. Someone who’s illiterate into their late 40’s might have an easier time forgetting than a kid who learns to read by 5.

5

One time I was waiting outside a store for a very long time and to kill time I read all the notices, signs, ads, etc that were posted to the inside of the glass (it was backwards to me). I got so good at it that I could read it like I would normally read something. After that when I tried to read normally, I couldn’t! I was dyslexic for about an hour until I re-learned how to read normally. Try it sometime!!!

6

Forget entirely, no. Get lazy about it, yes. I imagine a lot of people have had the problem of being away from professionaly journals or demanding literature for a time, and finding that the lazy brain resisted getting back into shape.

7

You might want to google the term “aphasia”.
(I may have mispelled it)

8

Okay.

http://www.aphasia.org/NAAfactsheet.html

The OP isn’t talking about having a stroke or a brain injury that impairs your mental abilities–the OP is talking about simply forgetting how to read, the way you can forget how to wind a bobbin on your sewing machine, or how to tie a four-in-hand.