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Okay, I've written it a dozen or so time, but will write it down again, this is for the deafness, so dyslexia will be written later.
As you know, you first start hearing when you're in your mother's belly, so by the time you're born, your hearing is developed and when you get older your brain said it's normal.
However with me, because I was born deaf and wasn't discovered until I was 2 years old, my hearing hasn't been developed and it's basically 'set' (think of it like a concrete - you lay the foundation and wait for it to set) to not hearing sound and my brain think this is normal.
This make a huge difference in recognising sound, says the difference between the squeal of a double decker bus and a bird's tweet.
Now for the spelling/grammar;
Because I'm deaf, we tend to start 'late' because it take a while to teach us (some are fast learner, some aren't), especially in the english department where you learn the grammar in related to listening/speaking.
Even though I was brought up speaking and listening, my grammar/speech is still a couple or 5 years behind, and because my brain think that the quietness is normal, couldn't really tell the difference between though and thought, since they sound the same to me, much akin to the Japanese who couldn't pronounced 'R' as it wasn't in their language, it's also worth noting that those who learn a secondary language at an early age speak it better than those who learn it later (later - harder to learn).
The other aspect that hindrance my ability with grammar is going to a deaf boarding school where everyone but me use sign language, the school forbid it at lesson time/talking to teacher, but generally we're allowed to sign with each others, sign language is exactly like tezt messaging, shortening the word to push the message out more effective, says *"Hello, how are you? when did you get here?" *which take a while to put it in sign language, so it's shorten to "hello, how you, when you get here?".
There's a lots more to add but I'll leave this for now in case I might get it muddle up.