Writing Outside the Lines with Dyslexia

I’m not sure when dyslexia became a common word. I remember seeing a commercialfor it when I was younger, but in school I was labeled dumb, lazy, and a “slow reader.”People seem to think it goes away when you get older. It doesn’t. You just learn how towork with it.

Dyslexia is like someone telling me that I’m mispronouncing a word, but then not tellingme how to pronounce it correctly. I know I’m doing it wrong, but I don’t know how to do itright.

The most debilitating for me is that I can’t...