My dyslexia affects both words and numbers for me, but I do find that I have a harder time with numbers than I do with words. And if I'm tired or rushed, or there is too much stimulus around me while I'm trying to read or calculate I get "lost" and have a hard time processing what I'm seeing. Interestingly enough I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until my early 30's. In hindsight it explains a whole lot. I had such a hard time learning to read when I started school. The teacher I had was very nice and she used to come to the house every evening for a couple of hours and help me with my reading (my Dad was illiterate with poor health and between working and looking after a family of 4, my Mom didn't have time to sit and help me with my reading). I started life out as a lefy. When I started school the teachers told my parents that I would find it hard in life as a lefty and that they should correct it before it became "habit". So I was slapped at school and at home whenever I picked anything up with my left hand, and the item was promptly moved to the right hand. As a result I'm dominantly right handed for writing, but I do many things as a lefty. I need a left handed can opener, I play baseball as a lefty and I can write with both hands; the writing is faster with the right, but much neater with the left, etc. It's scientifically proven that the brain of a left handed person is wired differently than that of a right handed person. For example a stroke on the left side of the brain of a right handed person will affect the speach centre (which is on the left side of their brain), but if it occurs in the same spot on a left handed person, the speach centre isn't affected because the speach centre of a lefty is on the right side of the brain. I've talked to several people who are dyslexic and they have all told me that they too started life out as a lefty and were "converted" to being right handed when very young. So I often wonder if my dyslexia is a result of a "power struggle" between the 2 halves of my brain (wired as a lefty but trying to function as a righty). Martian_manhunter, were you by chance a lefty converted to a righty?

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi