It isn't often that the Desk recognizes itself in something.
But the more it read on the Dyslexia site the more it realized that they were talking about it.
Aside from the part about above average intelligence, the Desk can directly relate to most of the symptoms of Dyslexia. We'll say it here and now: Nobody has ever seriously accused the desk of having above average intellect.
While at it's day job, which involves working with detailed and specific information about technical matters involving both IDs for high capacity circuits as well as individual telephone numbers for voice commmunications, the Desk has written either an individual numeral or occasionally an entire ten digit phone number or circuit ID (a combination of letters and numbers) backwards, or sometimes, even upside down and backwards or a mirror image. Something it cannot do intentionally- even though it CAN read things that are backwards and upside down- such as sitting across a table from its boss who is doing its performance review.
In the Desk's case only:
Learning even short phrases in a foreign language is almost impossible. Recalling them correctly sometime later is all but unheard of for it. Taking a Spanish class for credit- futile.
Cursive writing is something the Desk goes out of its way to avoid. Not only is it's handwriting illegible, it is nearly indecipherable.
Also memorization can be fun. The Desk has been typing for nigh on thirty years, and it still doesn't know where some of the keys are on the keyboard. Quote Bible verses from memory, not easily. Memorizing Number Sequences like phone numbers, lock combinations, driver's license number... sorry.
Mathematics in general are actually painful and at times humiliating for it...
Tangent:
In college, the Desk had to take a math class to graduate. The simplest class that counted as a math credit was something along the lines of introduction to statistics. The Desk took it. In the class you had to pick various numbers out of story problems, then plug them into the correct formula and do the math to come up with an answer. The Desk could find the right numbers, and even guess correctly which formula to use. But then it would come up with some answers that had nothing to do with anything else on the paper.
We won't discuss the three years it spent in Algebra 1 class in high school. Finally being passed out of sympathy for being the only senior in the sophomore class.
End tangent.
