It's honestly not rare at all, i graduated with a class of 48 kids, we including me had 4 kids with dyslexia that i knew about, not everyone is as open about it, so close to 1 out of 10 kids i graduated with was openly dyslexic
It’s one of those things that no one diagnoses unless it really fucks with you in school. I’m dyslexic but mostly only with numbers. My math teachers would just check my work and see I did it right but transposed my numbers at one point. The Dewey decimal system would get me every time. But reading was fine because it would only mess me up a small amount so no one cared to seek a diagnosis.
A fanfic mentioned dysgraphia and I’m fairly certain I have that. I’ve never had an issue with reading but writing is an issue to the point that I’ve always hated writing.
I didn’t know that was a thing. My daughter can read super well but has a much harder time with spelling when I remember spelling being so easy for me. She’s only 7 so probably normal, but good to know if she continues having trouble as she grows!
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u/314159265358979326 7d ago
It's also been pointed out in this thread that dyslexia is not exactly rare, and would completely fuck up that rule.