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Your brain reads the meaning fine, just argues with the letters first.
means A neurological condition that makes it hard to match letters to sounds, so reading and spelling take more decoding effort than they do for most people.
from Built in the late 1800s from Greek dys- ('bad, difficult') and lexis ('word, speech'), itself from legein ('to speak'). A German ophthalmologist coined it to describe patients who could see letters fine but couldn't make them cohere into words — so from the start it named a gap between seeing and reading, not a problem with the eyes.
- not vision
- eyes work perfectly, brain's letter-to-sound wiring differs
- intelligence link
- zero correlation with IQ, often overlaps with giftedness
- prevalence
- affects up to 1 in 5 people, mostly undiagnosed
- famous club
- Einstein, Edison, and Spielberg all reportedly had it