Dyslexia Dyslexia is a misunderstood learning disability. Knowledge of the disability dyslexia allows its victims and their families a better quality of life. Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects the processes of reading and writing. Many people have dyslexia, and don’t even realize it, because they have either not known that they were supposed to read or write differently, or they have never heard anything about dyslexia or other learning disabilities. Dyslexia has been around forever, but no one realized what it actually was until around 1877. In 1877 Adolph Kussmaul, a German physician gave dyslexia a name, but it wasn’t dyslex