Inverted with this Troper. I'm hyperlexic, which means that at 1 and a half years old, I learned how to read, beeyitch!

Congrats. You have made everyone else on this page feel like crap. Really, thanks.

To be fair, it also means s/he has trouble communicating (potentially autistic) and doesn't play with others

I had extreme dyslexia as a kid, but it has gotten a lot better in recent years. But I somewhat commonly misspell "Henry" as Henrey" and saying "Half glass full" instead of "Glass half full". However, sometimes when I'm talking and I don't remember how a word is pronounced, I attempt to remember how to pronounce it by spelling it in my head while saying it out loud. More often than not, this results in me slightly mispronouncing it the first time, really mispronouncing it the second time, EXTREMELY mispronouncing the third, and everything after that being gibberish. When I realize what I'm doing via DoubleTake, I A: sigh, FacePalm, and try one more time before giving up or B: Purposely continue to say gibberish like I'm not doing anything wrong, and cause everyone in the room to laugh.

This troper's brother has a learning disability that nobody detected until he was older. My brother drew a picture of plane, and wrote "West Noth Airlines" on the side (yes, without the "r" in "north" and yes, we fly Northwest). Also, spring onions became onion springs, and carpark was "pakcak".

This troper is mildly dyslexic. Reading is simple enough (except with words that are only one or two letters off), however without careful concentration when writing essays, words or numbers will often get quite jumbled, resulting in one AP US History essay about the Salem Witch Trials of 1962.

After making fun of an extracurricular instructor's horrible spelling all through middle school, this troper and her friends got to high school and were informed that this individual is severely dyslexic.

The Hollywood version is occasionally TruthInTelevision, as is the case with both my husband and my daughter. They both transpose letters all the time, especially my husband. The school has been great about helping my daughter learn to cope, but people hardly even knew what dyslexia ''was'' when my husband was in school, so he's had a lot harder time of it. It was so terrible when he was in his early twenties that he managed to spell 'California' as 'Kalfornia'. I still can't let him make grocery lists because he sometimes comes up with things even I can't decipher.

This dyslexic Troper wrote her numbers backwards unit the 4th grade, only stopping with the help of a teacher, and still gets lower case b and d mixed up if she's not paying attention. She also has horrible spelling, but the result is usually words that make phonetic sense but aren't anywhere close to how they're supposed to be spelled rather than randomly mixed up letters. The exception is that sometimes she'll mix up the vowels in words with 2 vowels in a row, the worst offers are bieng(being), becuase(because) and Arcues(Arceus). Also if she reads a new word without bothering to sound it out she'll mix up or ad letters in her mental pronunciation.

Are we allowed to talk about dyscalculia? Because according to ThatOtherWiki, I could have it

This troper becomes mildly dyslexic when my mind gets ahead of my mouth. In addition to what some people mistake for AttentionDeficitOohShiny, this can result in situations of IReadThatAs and odd cases of word mashing ("Medium Mixed Breed Dogs" became "Medium Bricks Mead Frogs").

This Troper has the same problem. When my eyes/mouth just keep going (and i can talk FAST for a LONG time, much to others' exasperation), I start to garble words, to the point where all my friends now accept that i remove usually necessary grammar in exchange for more adjectives and nouns and verbs. Hilarity Ensues when i have a sentence that comes out worse than Engrish.

This Troper is dyslexic, and was flipping surprised to find out, since she hasn't had any especially strong difficulty with grammar and spelling since her early teens, give or take a few mixed up letters and words, and the fact that pink or peachy coloured text makes her eyes hurt. She didn't know until that point that dyslexia covers a far wider range of problems than just difficulties with spelling since it's a problem with how the brain processes information, and every act a body carries out involves some of those processes. My own problems include an inability to understand directions given by ear (auditory processing), trouble with explaining simple processes aloud, an inability to distinguish between different symbols such as maps or road signs, and a problem with mathematics (dyscalculia). I also garble a bit, like the above tropers (not alone, guys). Dyslexia is a pretty wide ranged thing, really... It'd be nice to see other examples of it portrayed in the media.

This troper is convinced that his sister is: she takes so long to read that I've never seen her finish a reasonably small book within a week and her sentences are a frequent source of amusement amongst everyone else. Ironically, she is studying English Literature. This troper? He would argue himself at having better than average reading and writing skills (case of point, it took him a week to read IT by Stephen King: it is almost 1400 pages long and he can still remember quite a lot of it).

I am extremely dyslexic, dyscaculic, and dysgraphic. To the extent that I had to listen to audio books though 5th grade for reading assignments (and was to all extents and purposes illiterate until 4th), still write numbers and number symbols back wards, and own a laptop simply because my teachers no longer allow me to hand write my assignments. I would qualify as a trained word blind dyslexic. They discovered my dyslexia in 1st grade and I immediately began 8 years of extensive tutoring three days a week every week (mines one month when my tutor had heart surgery) for all aspects of non-oral language/communication. As I was then attending a privet prepitory school I was "not welcome back for another semester" after my diagnoses. My current school refuses to recognize my learning disability due to my extensive verbal ability (speech was my only form of effective communication until I learned to type) and my early diagnoses. My dyslexia is compounded by myopia, ADHD, multiple forms of anxiety, bipolar disorder and all the lovely complications of living with alcoholics. This entry has been spell checked.

I accidentally found out that a freshman in my school is dysgraphic when joking about the fact that he uses an iPad to take notes. It was quite embarrassing, to say the least.

My sister is dyslexic, and it took her a long time to fully learn to read, while I've always been the family bookworm who's read everything, spells everything perfectly, etc. Joke's on me when we play Scrabble, though-- her inherent ability to scramble words makes her beat me every time.

This troper, reading from, a book on dyslexia. "For example, someone with dyslexia might read the number 12 as... CRAP, I mean the number ''21'' as 12... I swear that I didn't do that on purpose." It caused me a lot of grief in school, as no one actually believed that I'm dyslexic because of my grades. Little did they know the sheer anguish that I had to go through to get those grades, which could have been even higher, but no one wants to help the girl with straight A's get even higher straight A's. I still get palpitations at the thought of tasks like the ones that caused me trouble in school. In fact, I'm getting palpitations just writing this! Lovely.

Troper is ridiculously good with reading. Her HeterosexualLifePartner is so badly dyslexic as to be functionally illiterate. She's insanly good with art and sewing, which the Troper has two left hands for. My de facto niece ([=HLP=]'s daughter) is also very badly dyslexic, but made it work for her; because she couldn't read the subtitles on the anime everyone was watching, the kid picked up Japanese from an early age. The Japanese writing systems also are pictographic and don't reverse or invert in her head. She will probably end up reading Japanese better than English, as the kid's already reading untranslated manga.

This Tropette's best friend, who usually had me check her schoolwork and edit her spelling before handing it in.