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What Does It Feel Like When You Have Dyslexia?

Students with dyslexia said that it was really frustrating trying to read. Sometimes they mixed up letters, so instead of reading felt, F-E-L-T, they saw left, L-E-F-T. But if they listened to a book being read aloud, they were fantastic at comprehension. Now, I've heard that some pretty famous people had or have dyslexia. Is that true? It sure is. Albert Einstein didn't learn to speak until he was quite a large toddler. Charles Darwin is famous for his terrible spelling and punctuation. George Washington famously hired Alexander Hamilton to write his letters for him. And my favourite is probably the children's book author

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