I have found a word that describes me quite well, and thought I would share it with you:
hyperlexia
means being able to read big words without understanding them, basically. I find I do this all the time...

And as an aside, I realised a while ago that I have a most appropriate name - Alex - or aLex...

roh oh! better plug this one into onelook, alex.

I have been lied to! O my wounded heart! Who would have thought that a teacher could be wrong?? What a shocking thought...
I am distraught. However, the -lex of my name still counts, I think.

Probably from Greek alexo -- ward off or defend, rather than anything to do with lego/lexis -- say, speak/speech, word

Bingley

everyone is ruining my nice little bubbles. Guess I should be thankful, really, before I make any more blunders... but perhaps, at its very heart, alexo and lego/lexis are related anyway?

I still can't believe that teacher told me wrong!

hang on another second--the medical dictionaries, Wikipedia aside, say this:

In retarded children, the presence of relatively advanced reading ability.
so it sounds like an idiot savant kind of thing; and your teacher wasn't
that far off with his "being able to read big words without understanding them".

it's just not a trait that I'd want to apply to myself. <g>