To think there there's a huge lack of reading comprehension on Mumsnet?

[Tuhelime]

It's so frustrating. The OP will ask, for example, 'can anyone recommend the best way of getting from Brighton to Norfolk? I'm travelling alone and can't drive', and there'll be numerous responses saying 'the public transport isn't great, I'd take your car OP'.

Or there'll be a post saying 'I'm upset because my friend seems to have ghosted me. I've tried ringing and texting and even knocked on her door! She's alive because she's posting on Facebook', and then there's the answers of 'are you not worried something has happened to her OP?! If it was my friend I'd go round and knock on the door!'

It happens in simple threads to upsetting ones and it drives me insane.

Sometimes the 'actual' problem isn't in the OP. The initial question is only an indication of what's going on.

The OP is struggling and their actual problem isn't what they think it is.

Sometimes the clues are in the OP's posts.

Why do you need to go to Brighton anyway?

Maybe your friend is ghosting you as she's sick of being your taxi driver

On AIBU it is often very obvious if the OP has a very skewed view on the situation.

It's only several posts on that the true problem becomes clear.

I've just read a thread which on line 4 in the OP it says her DM is 92. Thirty threads later someone asks "How old is your Mum?" FFS RTFT.

I think people also overestimate general levels of reading comprehension.

Many people can be functionally illiterate at times - especially when tired. They can read the words but don't take in the full meaning. They skip read and miss out bits. It's more obvious in men when they are not fully listening in a verbal conversation.