Dyslexia and You: When Reading is the Final Boss

[Aesop Rocks]

So I have a pretty severe case of dyslexia and it has always held me back from truly enjoying books because I always end up getting lost on the page, confused, re-reading over myself, etc and this past year after the film Oppenheimer came out and absolutely rocked my world, I decided to try and combat my dyslexia by... reading? Does that make sense to anyone else. I would take my time. I wouldn't set any goals or expectations of how much to read, when, or how, but I did eventually finish the book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer after about 4 months. For a book with insanely fine print and packed with incredibly deep, finely printed details across 721 pages, I finished it and I realized it was my favorite book of all time. The true history surrounding the most important event in American history and how Hollywood it felt while reading, but accepting that what I was reading was the most detailed biography of not only one of the most important men in World History, but the most important project in American History. It made me fall in love with reading and I started to look back for different things along those same lines and remembered about Cormac McCarthy (this was before that weird expose about him and a 16 yr old in the 60s/70s) and I truly feel he was the master of American Nihilism.

So yeah! Books are cool but hard as hell for me to read. Does anyone else suffer from dyslexia and still try to power through it to enjoy reading?