Ever been asked "Are you dyslexic?"

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Back when I was doing English 2 and the teacher was reading my work she asked "Are you dyslexic?" I said no (she seemed shocked) I then and still do write so quickly I put he instead of the and even now I find myself using TOTALLY different words than I meant to use it's WEIRD!! !! !! (I don't know much on dyslexia but there's probably more to it but from basic understanding it has to do with letters looking jumbled so it's hard to read etc.) I don't have this problem (if there is more to it then please forgive me I'm sorry if I offended anyone.)

Yes, by several people. I'm a slow reader and get mixed up and a lot. I still like reading though.

I've been asked that question, by somebody on some website, one time.

I am dyslexic. I'm glad they found out about it early enough in my life that it is not a big problem. Oh sure I'm still not good are spelling and writing. But I can read things just fine.

Only once. I tend to mispell a lot on IM and someone asked me if I was dyslexic and I said I was not and after that he was such a jerk about it.

Nope. If anything I think I may be hyperlexic.

yes

I think a whole lot faster than I used to be able to write, so for a while the school board granted me a scribe to use on tests because my writing was not only illegible, but it would rarely make sense and I had a lot of spelling errors due to my speedy mind. The problem with having a scribe is that when I'm thinking something I rarely have the capacity to put it together and vocalize it in sentences that make sense, or I talk so fast that I stumble over my words, so things got quite a bit worse and they started to think that I was dyslexic. The problem with that thought was that I was in 6th grade and reading old university textbooks for fun, so that idea was thrown out. It really just turns out that my brain works faster than my mouth too, but I've learned to cope and for my notes for class and essays are usually just written in shortform. The only issue I sometimes have is on in-class writing tasks that I have to hand in (such as essays on final exams), and usually if I feel like I'm getting ahead with myself I just stop and re-read what I've written and even if it makes me lose my train of thought I can get it back again pretty quickly.

I've been asked a few times, but it was regarding having numbers in the wrong order, which I understand is something else (don't know the word off the top of my head).

yes

If 1 was dyslexic and 6 was hyperlexia, I'd say I'm at 3. I'm in the normal range but my NT peers have spoken complicated words that I've never heard before, and I've had to ask them what those words mean. And yet I'm the one who's supposed to have hyperlexia.