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Some people are just not very good at reading/writing - as much as some people are not very good at numeracy, or spatial awareness or physical endurance or balance or colour recognition or social skills or memory tasks or . . . . well, pretty much everything.
I think our society is so reliant on good (or even adequate) literacy that we seemed to have medicalised something that could also be simply labelled "not very good at . . "
Does it exist that some people are less well adapted to lexical/literacy skills ? It seems fairly obvious that this is the case but 'Dyslexia' (the word) seems to imbue a simple and common failing with some kind of special quality, it seems over medicalised to me.
To call Dyslexia as neurological condition is also a misnomer, most things that you will find yourself lacking in will be neurological in nature, it is not as if someone's lack of numeracy is caused by demons or miasmas.