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Dyslexia is one of many types of learning difficulties. There are many types of these difficulties and just about everyone has one to some extent or another. With dyslexia, the learning difficulty may range from a person with horrendous dyslexia who is functionally illiterate, to someone who is just fairly bad at reading and writing. In some instances, you'll find dyslexics who are actually okay at reading and writing seeing as the condition describes a wide range of cognitive problems, including things such as difficulty understanding directions, reading maps, and/or doing logical puzzles. You'd think that in fiction this would be portrayed accurately. You would be wrong.

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  • Dyslexia is one of many types of learning difficulties. There are many types of these difficulties and just about everyone has one to some extent or another. With dyslexia, the learning difficulty may range from a person with horrendous dyslexia who is functionally illiterate, to someone who is just fairly bad at reading and writing. In some instances, you'll find dyslexics who are actually okay at reading and writing seeing as the condition describes a wide range of cognitive problems, including things such as difficulty understanding directions, reading maps, and/or doing logical puzzles. You'd think that in fiction this would be portrayed accurately. You would be wrong.
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  • Dyslexia is one of many types of learning difficulties. There are many types of these difficulties and just about everyone has one to some extent or another. With dyslexia, the learning difficulty may range from a person with horrendous dyslexia who is functionally illiterate, to someone who is just fairly bad at reading and writing. In some instances, you'll find dyslexics who are actually okay at reading and writing seeing as the condition describes a wide range of cognitive problems, including things such as difficulty understanding directions, reading maps, and/or doing logical puzzles. You'd think that in fiction this would be portrayed accurately. You would be wrong. In fiction dyslexia is a condition where people somehow see the letters in words to be all scrambled up and in the wrong order, often portrayed as going so far as using lots of hilarious Spoonerisms. Dyslexics in fiction also usually cannot spell either which is usually credited to their dyslexia. They also only have full-blown dyslexia that manifests itself as illiteracy, never as just mild difficulties. Additionally in fiction there are no other types of learning disabilities. If someone is bad at reading, they get a Very Special Episode about dyslexia. But there aren't any Very Special Episodes about problems with math, called dyscalculia; if someone is bad at math, they're lazy or stupid. Or normal. Despite growing awareness of dyslexia in fiction, anyone with dyslexia is usually undiagnosed and seems completely surprised to learn they have it. This was very true in the past, but is becoming less so. If you have further interest on the subject or want to know how to portray dyslexia more accurately, check out our Useful Notes page on Dyslexia. Compare Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny, for media's treatment of ADD/ADHD. (On a side note, no, L from Death Note is not dyslexic. He'd still be able to spell his own name right if he was, though.) Examples of L Is for Dyslexia include:
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