There are two musicians I know who are both Cambridge graduates and who were also diagnosed as dyslexic when small children. They considered this not a "gift" but a blasted nuisance. Each, however, received appropriate remedial tuition and are now where they are, playing in top bands.

I know another with Asberger's Syndrome who refuses all therapy or treatment. He's a total pain in the arse, as is anyone else with this condition, and is unable to play in bands with others.

None of which has anything whatsoever to do with "home education" (cranky or not) but it certainly exposes how preposterous it is to regard someone with a learning difficulty as somehow "special". Appropriate intervention by skilled experts can and does get round or overcome such problems and enables a more or less "normal" life (whatever that is).