You didn't miss anything, Gargoyle. It isn't a joke.

Gareth,

A couple of years into my employment as a writer at the university library where I work, I was talking to my boss during my annual evaluation. I mentioned my dyslexia, and he was amazed that this was the first he'd heard of it. When we work on print materials, I write what I'm going to, then I pass it off to him to see if he wants anything changed, added, whatever. As a natural editor, he also marks any of those typos and reversed words (probably assuming they're typos). So when he asked "how do you compensate for the dyslexia?" I laughed and told him I give it to him to proof read! If I can let something "cool" for a while, I can catch most of it myself. But it's hard for anyone to catch their own errors when they're close to a work, dyslexia or not, so we generally all proofread for each other.
SRS