Dyslexia - and making a difference

DH is dyslexic - he has problems with reading, very slow, and much more with written work and spelling. But he trained as an electronics engineer, where he is quite gifted, and earned a good living.
He leaves all the business letters to me. I think that's why he married me

There are several types of dyslexia, depending which neural input or output is affected most eg auditory, visual, hearing, verbal etc.

DD is mildly dyslexic. Her spelling is not good and until she reached senior school her hand writing was terrible.
She finds it much easier to spell when using a keyboard. She thinks it's because she doesn't have to think about forming the letters and spelling at the same time.

Oh! I wish these conditions had been understood in the 50s and 60s when I was at school.

I struggled with writing in particular. Even now when handwriting, which I have always found difficult. I feel it feels as if my head knows how to spell but letters and words seem to come out wrong when I try to write.

I need to think about each letter and the shape as I write it.
"Slow to finish in exams" adorned all my reports.
I now don't hand write letters as I cannot do it without errors and my writing is not at all attractive to look at.

I could actually read well from an early age but it seems I have short term visual memory problems and don't easily remember the text, its much better if I read it aloud.

Thanks to the OU for getting me tested when I was 50! I am officially stated to be really quite clever.

I would hope nowadays a state school would notice and question this discrepancy between my then good reading age as I was considered to be top stream material but really under performing.