Thomas Edison, Hans Christian Anderson, Albert Einstein, Gustave Flaubert, General George Patton, Nelson Rockefeller, Erma Bombeck, athletic champions like Bruce Jenner and Greg Louganis, actors like Susan Hampshire, Tom Cruise, and Cher to name a few. What's wrong with me is just my words. I forget them and I can't manage them. It is a specific language-based disorder of constitutional origin characterized by difficulties in single word decoding, usually reflecting insufficient phonological processing abilities. Dyslexia is manifested by variable difficulty with different forms of language, often including, in addition to problems in reading, a conspicuous problem with acquiring proficiency in writing and spelling.
Some people have a talent for learning their native language.
Early in life and almost without effort, they seem to learn to understand speech and to make themselves understood. They learn reading, writing and spelling in the early grades at school or before. They present their thoughts clearly by word of mouth or in writing. Most of us must work harder and need more teaching to become as competent in these skills as we need to be. For some people, one-tenth or more of us, this learning is excessively hard.