I am astounded that it took me 50 years to see my dyslexia clearly.

The stereotype that dyslexics see letters switched or backwards is totally wrong.

What applies to every conscious person is that the mind sees. not he eyes. Even sounds change in your hearing if you see a person mouthing the letter V ,while the actual sound is bah. What you end up hearing is Vah and not bah. The mind changes what you hear due to what the eyes see. All your senses work as a team and influence each other in this way. This is why we are prone to be fooled by magician's illusions.

SOme dyslexics can read just fine but it exhausting beyond your belief. Reading even if well rested can put them to sleep in 10 minutes. Dyslexic readers are using 5 times the brain mass to compensate for a more direct pathway.

This is why new insights may occur to a dyslexic than a person who process words in a linear dirct fashion.

Part of my compensation included marrying a woman who can read a 300 page book in about an hour.