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Dyslexia is known as a condition that affects one's capability to manipulate symbols and sounds. It ordinarily appears as difficulties in reading, going forwards and backwards from letters to words and sounds, to meaning. As people do if they read aloud, as an example.

A dyslexic person's eyes see things the same as a non-dyslexic's eyes. But with the dyslexic, the brain interprets the signals received in different ways. You don't "catch" dyslexia, you're born with it. Approximately 1 out of every 10 has some form of dyslexia, to a certain degree. Going for a test for dyslexia is the only way to know for sure whether anyone is dyslexic.

A dyslexic person can learn to do practically anything the non-dyslexics do, but dyslexics learn in a different way. They need to be taught in the manner they could learn. Otherwise, they may never "comprehend it" on their own, then become discouraged and throw in the towel, thereby shutting out a whole sector of learning and development essential for their future success.

Nowadays, school-age children are routinely screened for dyslexia, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, it has only been in the last 15 or so years that screening and testing for dyslexia have been the rule, not the exception.

Virtually all adults who graduated from elementary school over 15 years ago have never been tested. Because of this there are an estimated 2 million dyslexic adults in the USA by itself.

What makes them hard to find and help is the way the educational system treated them as children. These were not understood. They got branded as dull, lazy, underachievers and mental defectives (which most were definitely not!) They were hurt and made to feel ashamed of their differences. As defense mechanisms to shield themselves, they worked out how to hide most of these differences.

Today you could find them as people employed in jobs far beneath what their intelligence would indicate they were qualified for. This so that they can avoid paperwork, having to read anything for their work. A painless dyslexic test could very well set them on the road to overcoming dyslexia and opening up an entirely new world of prospects...