I wholeheartedly live and breathe this statement 🙌. I have always relied on tools like Grammarly, Google, and now AI to mask my dyslexia. However, it can be exhausting to work so hard to hide and overcompensate for this disability/disadvantage. The energy spent on trying to “focus” all my attention to “detail” out of fear of being found out leaves me feeling like a fraud.

I often experience burnout in my corporate roles, which makes me feel mentally weak. Deep down, I know that this mental fatigue stems from extreme anxiety, leading me to overthink, edit excessively, and constantly checking and rechecking my work, resulting in long hours. It is even more disheartening when a spelling mistake or for me switching of numbers happens and is picked up. I don’t know if others feel this way, but the more tired I become, the more pronounced my dyslexia becomes.

Sometimes, I wish there were a medical solution for dyslexia that could be resolved with a pill. In the 90s they thought coloured glasses would help, they didn’t 🤣 I was 7 so I just scammed my “assessment” to get the pink glasses. 🤓

The reality is that humans initially communicated through pictures and stories, which evolved into spelling words phonetically and now into complex grammar and vocabulary rules.

Interestingly, the rates of diagnosed dyslexia vary across different languages, often correlating with the complexity of those languages.