I have mild dyslexia. It makes reading take a lot longer (about 100 pages in 3 hours), and it makes telling left vs. right a bit of a chore (1-2 seconds of additional cognitive load), but other than that, it’s been okay. I don’t know if that lines up with what other people call “mild dyslexia” though. I’m judging myself based on other cases I’ve read about/heard.

Friend has it and they describe reading as quite painful. I only discovered this after recommending a book and they said they never read any unless they were forced to.

I helped them find a special font that made it much easier on their brain and sanity. Difficult part was setting up their OS and apps to use it. There needs to be more awareness for that IMO. They’re a programmer and highly advanced in math, FWIW.

Dad also has it. I suspect he also has what you have. Was in the trades as a result. Getting texts from him requires a lot of translation because he also can’t spell… at all. Oddly enough he’s a bit obsessed with money and his calculator.

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

The answer is it depends. I have a severe case but was lucky enough to have a teacher that taught me skills to work around my version of dyslexia. I also had a friend that raised in a different part of the country where instead of getting the help he needed.

They just stuck him in classes with kids that had intellectual disabilities and just gave up on him. I was able to finished collage and got a job in tech. he dropped out after 2 semesters and became a truck driver. Honestly of the two of us. I’m more lazy than he is but he never got the skills.

To comment on not trying new things. That may have more to do with the Inferiority complex that comes with not being to property communicate your ideas. It makes you feel like everyone will see that you are stupid (even if that is not the case but its how you see yourself sometimes). It makes it hard show yourself as a beginner when trying new things. It brings back all that trauma of others judging your intelligence growing up.

I have very mild dyslexia. At work, I’ll read a part number in my head, type it into the system. Database will say, part number doesn’t exist. I look back and I’ve swapped numbers around.

More of a minor inconvenience for me.

This is a form of dyslexia right?

One of my best friends in elementary/middle school was more than a little dyslexic. He could write sentences perfectly mirrored backwards. He just finished a college degree in agricultural science and IIRC was joining a USDA research program. He’s perfectly fine.

The dyslexia isn’t the problem with your acquaintance.

I have mild dyslexia or something. For example, I’ll reverse words in sentences and won’t even realize I’ve done it until my kids start laughing. When reading or listening, sometimes I’ll take in the information but it’s all garbled and my brain just ejects it. I had to adapt and just catch those moments and reread or ask for clarification. I have a post grad degree, so it made life harder but didn’t stop me.

We communicate with written words imagine if we communicated with written numbers instead

It’s lonely wild.

I’ve always been dyslexic with lefts and rights, or perhaps their names? Even now I have to catch myself most of the time when I say the wrong one.

I’m a little bad with numbers, that got worse after a head injury, so now I frequently confuse 6s and 8s in addition to the usual ‘was it 2493 or 2349?’ kinda things. As long as I double check my numbers I can do math right, but if it’s just a number sequence, they get a little mixed up.

Mines very mild though, and I’ve met/seen people that take a solid minute or two to parse it when they’re corrected.

I know a “NEET of 8 years” who basically won’t try at anything because of this. I kind of feel like its an excuse to be lazy, but I can’t say for sure.

That could go either way. I’ve heard (from family or friends) of people that have it so severely, they can’t trust themselves enough to accurately read.

That said, it could also be an easy excuse to avoid trying, but ultimately without consulting or being diagnosed by an expert, you only have their word to go on as to the severity.

My friend has dyslexia and has just started a phd in chemistry. The only time I notice is when we try a crossword and he just has no concept in his head of how long words are and which letters go where.

I didnt know that was a thing, words, reading, talking is my strong suit (and languages, spanish, french, english and a bunch of words in others like valiryan, elvish, Na’avi or so)… I cant do complex math, very basic I manage.

I found out from here something related to dyslexia realted to spacial awareness that I kinda now wonder if I hae some super mild form of because of my tendency to hit my shoulder or knee on doorways and this thing I have with parking straight into lines. When I talked to my wife she thought it was just my bad vision but I have glasses that correct my vision. Anyway I was almost held back and part of it was do to reading but once I got it I was an avid reader. Im not sure where I am going other than it seems like a small amount can be overcome I think. I can’t imagine not reading it was like a major part of who I was growing up. Always had a book.

Not much