Wow I just made an account because I had to respond to this. I've been doing this letter/word counting on and off since I was 8 or so. I was just doing some reading for a college class (counting letters as usual) and I decided to look it up for the first time. My experience is similar in some respects to the other posts i've read, but also much different. It was never a real "back of the head" experience. When I started as a kid I counted on my fingers, and certain words on certain fingers felt "right." I still remember them, I know "Glasses" was my favorite 7 letter word, with 7 fingers up, and "Kristina" was my favorite 8 letter word, with 8 fingers up. I was also young so I was constantly asking how to spell certain words that I had to count, but didn't know how to. This stopped for a while and picked back up as an in the head thing, but I still count all the words in my head, as if they're on my hands. Its hard to explain. But I basically count in groups of 5, which allows me to count super fast, like some of the other people said. I can easily keep up with movies. I am also much more..sophisticated..with my counting now. I play all types of word games, not on purpose I should mention, I try to stop all the time. But I count letters almost instantaneous so now its more of mixing the letters into new words. So if some one says "What are you doing?" I change it to "Wheat groin Day ou" in about 5 seconds. "If she wants" becomes "we fish ants" Those are just ones I do a lot, but I make new words all the time. Haha I feel like I sound crazy but I'm just so happy I found this to vent on. Only my girlfriend and one other friend know about it, and I don't think they really understand the extent of it. I used to get really bad headaches and stuff. Exercising helps a lot but I count like a mad man when I go for runs, so it helps, but its so annoying during the run. Ive actually been going into a uhh remission? of sorts lately. So I'm praying it doesn't come back. But I hope all of your personal issues with it get better. Maybe some 6 figure job counting numbers will be created in the next couple years and we'll all be insanely rich letter counting secants.
But seriously I hope you guys are doing well.
