The curious tale of how I mistook my dyslexia for stupidity - and talked, sang, and drew my way out of it.

Sometimes I tell people I’m dyslexic and they don’t believe me. I love to read, I can mostly write without error, and I’m fluent in more than one language.

Also, I don’t actually technically know if I’m dyslectic cause I was never diagnosed. Instead I thought I was pretty dumb but if I worked really hard no one would notice. Later I felt inordinately angry about why anyone could possibly care about the exact order of letters when the gist is perfectly clear even if if if I right liike tis.

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I mean, clear to me anyway.

I was 25 before it dawned on me that all the tricks [...]

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Outline:

(02:29) Read Out Loud

(04:42) Draw the Letters

(07:46) Sing it

(09:40) Substituting brain processes

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.