It runs throughout our family. I have learned hundreds and hundred of "compensations" i.e. a lower-case "b" and "d" confused me so much that I would put the upright staff through the middle of the "o" so the letter could be "interpreted" by the reader as either one. Then when I was about age 35 a dyslexic child told me, "it's easy, you can spell the word BED can't you "B".."E".."D"....the up part of the letters make the head and foot boards....bed....

I am VERY VERY VERY happy to be dyslexic. As far as I am concerned it is a "gift" that allows me to veiw the world, its problems and solutions, differently.

My brothers and father and I didn't have a name for it until the 1980's.