Dyslexia doesn't sound too bad, right? You simply read some letters backwards now and then. Aside from that time you tried to order your Lord Of The Rings -loving niece a 12-inch Bilbo figurine online, what's the worst that could happen? But after talking to real dyslexics Wayne Bellamy and Thomas Ferry, we discovered that the disorder is in fact more serious than we ever thought. For example ...

5 Real Dyslexia Looks Nothing Like You Think

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According to pop culture, if you want to know what it's like living with dyslexia, check out Charlie Day's character on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. While real dyslexics do struggle like that, the condition is a lot more complicated. There are actually 37 symptoms of dyslexia, ranging from acting disorderly to having problems concentrating or possessing poor motor skills.

As Wayne explains it: "You know that Siri question where you ask why firetrucks are red, and [she] says, 'Because firetrucks have eight wheels and four people on them, and four plus eight is twelve, and there are twelve inches in a foot, and one foot is a ruler, etc'? That's pretty much how my mind goes. I'll appear to zone out in a conversation and then talk about something that appears off-topic [because] my brain has gone off on four tangents and arrived at Kevin Bacon."