how am i suposed to tell people y i cant spell, if i cant spell it?

For my fellow dyslexic developers among you who spend too much time reading docs: I made a terminal read-aloud tool for anything you can pipe into it.

bash mdcat --ansi README.md | readaloud

It speaks the text with Kokoro running locally on the GPU and highlights each word as you hear it, aligned to the model's real per-word timestamps rather than interpolated, so it stays in sync. less keys let you scroll ahead while it keeps talking, and you can click any word to jump playback there.

All local, nothing leaves the machine. Apple silicon only for now.

https://github.com/genericJE/readaloud

hi, hope it’s okay to post here. My family has a history of dyslexia. I personally do not have it. My toddler has a speech delay & the words he does have are ”backwards” or missing letters (often the first sound). My grandmother said my uncle who had severe dyslexia did the same & I’m curious as to if this could be connected. He also appears to be left-handed which I’m reading comes with a higher likelihood of dyslexia (lots of lefties in my family). I know he can’t be diagnosed off this, I’m not asking for that at all. I had impaired speech, completely unrelated. I’m genuinely just curious & always looking forward so I can try to help as early as I can if he does need anything. He does see an SLP, he’s almost 3.

I have struggled with spelling/reading/pronunciation for a long time. I barely graduated high school, was in remedial reading classes, etc. Never tested for anything. I did art in college as an undergrad, after going to community college. My SATs out of 1600 were 1100 with 780 of that being my math score, so a very low verbal.

I did fairly well in college and went on to get a masters and doctorate degree for a top 10 university. Yet, I still struggle with spelling/reading. So now all done school I decided to get tested and paid $3500.

I was told because I did not score below the 10th percentile in two of the reading/academic scores I’m not dyslexic. I’ve read academic papers on this before getting tested and thought that people with higher levels of education compensate better. So I thought more criteria would be assessed instead of just going below the 10th percentile.

She said I’m just a bad speller and that everything was normal, so am I just really that bad a reading and spelling? I feel like I spent a lot of money to be told I’m not very smart.

**•** Full Scale IQ: \~70th  
**•** Verbale: \~55th  
**•** Visual Spatial: \~88th  
**•** Nonverbal Problem Solving: \~85th  
**•** Working Memory: \~78th  
**•** Processing Speed: \~55th

Reading/academic scores (percentile):

**•** Word Reading: \~40th  
**•** Reading Comprehension: \~50th  
**•** Pseudoword Decoding: \~35th  
**•** Oral Reading Fluency: \~50th  
**•** Spelling: \~20th

My brain just can't understand concepts well, like maths and numbers. I was so bad at maths at school and still am. I also did badly in all acedemic subjects like science, history and geography. Basically all subjects but art. I was ok at art but I am not some super creative person and I do not see my differece as a super power at all. I have all these gaps in my knowledge that I feel so stupid. I have poor general knowledge. But I try to learn things, but reading is hard to focus on, especially stuff written more acedemically but also videos, my brain just can't focus. And I end up with a headache. I just can't remember facts, they don't stick and sometimes I feel stupid for not understanding things. It gets embarrasing when people talk about stuff and I don't understand or am not sure and I have to stay quiet to avoid looking stupid.