dyslexic
If you're dyslexic, you have a learning disability that makes it particularly hard for you to read, write, and spell.
Someone who's dyslexic suffers from dyslexia, in which the brain has trouble translating images into language. Many think that dyslexic people simply transpose letters and numbers — reading 1234 as 4321 or mistaking b for d — but the symptoms are usually broader than this. To a dyslexic person, letters and numbers may jump around on the page, or the person might have trouble connecting letters to the sounds they make. The word dyslexic comes from the Greek roots dys, meaning bad, and lexis, meaning word.
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having impaired ability to comprehend written words usually associated with a neurologic disorder
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of or relating to or symptomatic of dyslexia
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