<font color="purple">So, there is this little boy who I sit next to on the bus, we play Pokemon together, read together, and sometimes improvise our own games. I guess you could say that he's my adoptive little brother and I'm one of his best friends (Dad thinks he has a crush on me )

In any case, I noticed that whenever I let him play my Pokemon games (nearly every day) he does not read any of the actual text in the game. Now, it's not like the reading level is too difficult considering the games were meant for his age (8+) but he still just doesn't read it (somtimes it's imortant info too, so he get's stuck and I have to be his guide) I thought this was pretty suspicious. It had gotten to the point were I started questioning if he was even LITERATE, rather then "oh well maybe he just hates reading".

But this week was special, instead of playing games he brought several Goosebumps book and we would take turns reading (he would read I page, then I would read a page") because he likes these books so much then I know it's not that he doesn't like reading. He does have a difficult time with it though. but when he was reading today something peculiar occured:

Kid: *points to the word "bop" * Does that say "bop" or "dop"?
Me. Bop

it was at this point that it made sense now: he is dyslexic! This isn't the only symptom he has either, I've also noticed that when reading he sometimes substitues words in instead of reading the actual words (that's how they diagnosed my brother) as well as generaly avoiding reading when possible, and why he reads slowly (for his age) I don't think it's severe though.

I feel kind of proud of myself </font>