I would imagine it depends on what kind of dyslexia.

If someone can’t process similar looking letters well, I’d imagine most reading of even small sentences is likely painful.

I get some of that and I suck at spelling words with repeated letters because I can’t remember which ones are repeated. But, for me, the hardest part is that my brain doesn’t let me look at all the words. My eyes jump multiple words/lines at a time and hey some of the time, skimming paragraphs is fine. But when I’m trying to actually read something or learn something from the book… it feels like an impossible task.

Some of the problem is also related to ADHD where I can’t seem to actually focus on reading even if I can go through the words one by one. I have to reread sentences dozens of times before my brain finally realizes “oh there’s actually information here?”

That being said, I can and do still read. When I’m down a rabbit hole in Wikipedia articles my brain is locked in and I have the motivation to keep trying when I keep missing information.

I also think maybe I’m just really out of practice. I used to read books back in elementary school. I definitely still had trouble getting all the information out of them but when you’re reading fantasy it’s kinda fun to let your imagination fill in the gaps. Maybe I just need to start doing that again, reading for pleasure instead of purpose. I bet that would make the idea of having to read a research paper less daunting.

Oh also if anyone else is like me, I recommend highlighting like literally every sentence and trying to “translate it” especially for dense or jargon filled sentences. Like try to explain what the sentence is saying in your own words. It is tedious but it helps stop the “I’ve literally read this paragraph 8 times and not actually read any of it” phenomenon