Sounds like you are trying and do understand, thats great, more then I got.

I had to laugh about the hand writting being worse then a Dr., I heard that so many times about mine too. I don't know about your son, but I started writting that way so no one could read my mistakes, I guess I thought I was fooling people.

I think you are right, pride has a lot to do with it. Pride can be a down fall in some cases, as you know.

Could his problem also be the reason he doesn't want to read his papers to you? Just wondering. He might not feel confident enough in his reading, with those letters moving and all.

I wish I knew what to say to help you out, your stuck between a rock and a hard place. Wanting the best for him but fighting with his pride, embarrassment, age and dyslexic. Thats a hard battle. He has to get over his embarrassment and pride first before anything else. It took me a long time not to be embarrassed about it, as much, you just have to keep telling your self that it's not your fault, it makes you no less of a person then anyone else, just special. It takes a special person to turn a word around so well. LOL

Have you done the tutor route, trained to teach children with dyslexia? I so wish they had that back in my day, but back then you where just thought of a dumb, it wasn't as well known. Even now my husband said I sould have not put my problem out on the forum. He feels I opened myself up to get hurt by others. There are still people that look at you as if theres something wrong with you.

I know you said he's not good at typing, but thats is what has helped me, the more I write and or type, the less mistakes I make, use or lose it. One of the main reasons after I retired that I got online. Once I didn't have to do paper work any more I saw a decline in my skills, so I starting chatting and going to forums like this one. I'm still not great at it but a he$^ of a lot better then I was.

BTW: numbers are no different then words, they can swim around too. Dyslexia does not limit its self to just words, so I have been told.