People (who don't know what dylexia is) tend to focus on the reading part, and ignore the rest of the condition. I've always had a very high reading age, but my short term memory can cripple me. Dyslexia's the reason I can play babminton, but not tennis (I can't just hwo fast a ball is coming at me horizontally, so I can't hit it.)

I think there is a trend for certain types of people to blame things on syndromes. "It's not that I never had any time to read to my child and get him interested in books, he's dyslexic." "It's not that my child is a total dick who needs his head removing from his rectum, he's got aspergers." But anyone with half a brain will know that a condition is more than one sympton, and it's only suspicious if they only display that one.

I'm glad your brothe's got access to special school. I managed to cope enough to get me though education, but my mother and my sister really struggled.