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a brain wired to read the world just fine, letters not so much.
means a neurological difference that makes decoding written language harder, unrelated to intelligence or effort.
from from greek dys meaning difficult and lexis meaning word, coined in 1887 by german ophthalmologist rudolf berlin describing patients who saw letters fine but could not read them.
not visioneyes work perfectly, the letter-to-sound wiring lags.
prevalenceaffects roughly one in ten people worldwide.
famous mindseinstein, da vinci, and edison reportedly struggled with reading.
upsideoften linked to strong spatial reasoning and big-picture thinking.