I have dyslexia and I may be an outlier but it actually has helped me in life.
Firstly, I can read forwards, backwards, upside down, mirror images, etc. Doesn't matter, it is almost the same to me. The only reason I read faster forwards is simply because that is the way I mostly read. But when I was a kid, I like to read my books by turning my books upside down but my mom hated it when I did that and discouraged that (FWIW, I learned to read when I was 4).
I'm ambidextrous and can do everything with either hand. I play ping pong with either hand but I trained my left hand to play CHinese style and my right hand plays American style both at the same skill level. I bowl either handed (I bowl better left-handed), I can hit in baseball and golf ball either handed, and I can throw either handed though I do throw better right handed than left handed simply because I throw more with that hand.
I do get numbers confused visually very easily, they just get scrambled in my head, however, that does not happen if I 'hear' the numbers. But if I read a phone number as 915-128-5469 then I would remember it all jumbled like 951-182-5649 or something like that. But if I say the number to myself as I'm reading it, then I would remember it correctly.
However, the most powerful thing about my dyslexia is that I think way differently than everyone. The best way I can describe it is I think backwards. For some reason, this has been invaluable for me when getting my degrees in math and physics. Every test I've ever taken, I always approach the problem differently than 95% of my classmates. Oftentimes, I would reach the right answer with a completely different approach that the teacher never saw before. To be clear, it was never a genius approach in which I'm inventing some new concept. No, my approach was nothing genius or clever just "different" using the same tools that everyone else had just applied in a way different or "backwards" way.
But my dyslexic super power really comes into play when arguing socio-political-economic issues. Because I think backwards I don't approach problems the same way everyone else does and it just allows me to see the issue from a different perspective. For instance, lets take a political argument like a police shooting.
The first thing everyone does is they look at the specific instance from the perspective of whatever side they support. So, if they support police, they look at it from the standpoint of the cop. If they support the person who was shot, they look at it from the standpoint of the person shot.
I do the opposite. I naturally do not support police, so when a police shooting occurs I immediately put myself in the position of the cop. I have a bias towards those who experience hardship by the State so I naturally take a position against said people. This is completely counter to what people naturally do.
People use the term "Devil's advocate" when arguing, and to them, Devil's advocate means supporting the position opposite of your position. That is my default starting position. I immediately jump into the position opposite my position and I jump in WHOLEHEARTEDLY and I bolster the argument as much as I can and then after that I then look at the other position.
This allows me to see so much of what other people do not see and the clarity that comes from this just makes me see the truth of whatever the argument is.
THere are plenty of police shootings I support and there are plenty that are flagrantly and absolutely abhorrent and wrong.
Ok, that is enough ranting about my dyslexia