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Today I realized that something I do all the time in my head is actually a fun talent to share with other people. This is something I\u2019ve done as long as I can remember. See if you can figure out what it is…Here are some clues:<\/p>\n

In my bathroom, I have all sorts of fun products such as slarutan evicta oneevA, oopmahs, renoitdnoc, and noitol.<\/p>\n

I work at ytisrevinU etatS rebeW, in the tnemtraped fo ecitsuj lanimirc.<\/p>\n

I draobwons at nisabwonS.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of hard to explain this in writing because you have to understand that I can type and say all of those words with almost the same speed as I type and these words in the way that they\u2019re supposed to be written. They float around in my head in that form whenever I see them…but I see them in the correct order and then my brain plays a fun game of turning them around. Oftentimes, I use the klawssorc nairtsedep when I\u2019m going to the potssub.<\/p>\n

This is just one of the fun things I\u2019ve learned about my brain recently. I\u2019ve known for a long time that I do this in my head, but not until tonight when we were all cracking up at these fun transformations of words did I realize that 1) most people don\u2019t walk around with backwards words in their heads all day, and 2) it\u2019s actually a pretty fun and amazing talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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