So, WHAT is it?
Dyslexia is classified as a Learning Disability. But it is more than that in some ways, because it does affect the way the person both perceives and interacts with the world at large, besides just in school.
Individuals can, as discussed above and elsewhere in this article, have various perceptual and expressive problems sometimes significant enough to prohibit them from performing various daily tasks such as reading a menu, correctly ordering what they want for lunch then counting the change from the purchase. Extreme cases would have been called Mental Retardation in a bygone day.
In mild cases, the person is able to pass without notice in the normal work and school environment with only the occasional lapse which can almost be laughed off. In extreme cases, the individual requires special classes or training and sometimes medication due to related problems like ADHD which can result in bursts of anger or other socially inappropriate behavior as a result of being 'different'. Others may be unable to function in the world at large and live in group environments with consideration given to things like complex instructions for working a microwave.
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