How dyslexics read
When reading, many things happen in your brains. Most people do those things automatically, some cannot. Brains "look up" the words in your mental library and join them together to put a meaning on a sentence. In fact, you are processing characters into word sounds and combining those words into language. This is the hard part for dyslexic people.
Spelling difficulties are often the result of disorientation. When that occurs, a dyslexic may look at a word in many different ways: forward, backward, upside down, etcetera. The word is pulled apart and rejoined. Dyslexic people may often see characters in three dimensions, making them appear as if they are floating. This results in various perceptions of words.
IQ
IQ-tests show that the intelligence of dyslexic students that reach higher education is above average. Great scientists and politicians like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and John F. Kennedy were dyslexic and knew how to go about with it.To be able to function well in a teaching system that is based on reading and writing, pupils often find strategies to overcome their learning trouble. The understanding of not being stupid, even though this may be suggested plenty of times, will help them using their strengths to understand and apply the subject matter.
Thinking in images
Everyone with dyslexia thinks in images, but not every person who thinks in images is dyslexic. People that do, "see" about 32 images per second.For every thought of a dyslexic person, a picture is created. Those pictures continuously need to be transformed into language. That takes some time, especially because connecting pictures and language is not automated in the regular way.
The American author R.D. Davis claims when dyslexic people read "elephant", for example, they see the elephant from all sides, whereas non-dyslexic people rather have a single image of the elephant from one side.
A major consequence of dyslexia is thus creating a whole bunch of images and the tendency of trying to make everything complete. Wanting to know the beginning and end of everthing they encounter, is a common result of dyslexia and related to thinking in images. It is therefore hard for a dyslexic when they are, for instance during a meeting, suddenly asked a question. They would have to go through the images of the meeting again to find an appropriate answer, but this consumes so much time that it is simply skipped and new images are made instead. The chronological order and structure of the happening, story or process is distorted.
When a dyslexic person is asked a question, they often will elaborate more than necessary, or will refer to the essence of what is being discussed. The tendency of making everything complete, is born out of necessity. It is difficult for a dyslexic person to find a proper way of beginning a story for someone else, easily resulting in misunderstanding and irritation.