dyslexic here.
Figured out how to overcome it in reading, but not with numbers, alas.
Never interfered with my adult life, but sure messed up my GPA.
My daughter is dyslexic. She was diagnosed early in life because I had worked for a man who is dyslexic (owned his own very successful business). When she began to display some of the “symptoms” of dyslexia, I had her tested. She has always had excellent grades, but numbers are her downfall. She will not own an analog clock or wristwatch as she cannot reliably tell time by those devices. I believe her father was also dyslexic, but never diagnosed.
I was fortunate in that they mainstreamed her at school and she didn’t realize she was “different” until she was in the 6th grade. By then she had been so successful in adapting that it was incidental to her.
She can multitask much better than her brother, who has a very high IQ. She works in IT - as you might guess IP addresses give her problems :-)
As many of said, it is amazing how adaptive people can be and what they can overcome if they have the will.
I am exactly in the same place. Profoundly dyslexic but as a kid forced myself to overcome my reading difficulties and worked hard to develop writing skills.
Math was a nightmare from my first day in first grade until the I completed grad school.
Now I can work my way though the math needed for my job often times trading off math work with coworkers and taking their writing assignments.