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** Further more, sure, a lot of human society would get hung up on the created dyslexia, but there's also a lot of human society that could function more or less fine... so most businesses close down for a day or so, but a lot of things have recognizable pictures on them, along with the labels. I can see how an ATM transaction would get fouled up, but a couple trial and error runs, and you can get you things done. Hell, if nothing else, everyone just goes home, or to a bar, and watches pre-recorded shows/movies/etc. The bars might need to just run tabs for everyone, but that's vaguely doable. (cash shouldn't get too fouled up, you just need people who remember what president's on what bill..)
*** and ear plugs cancel the effect. because it's sonic. wow...
*** *sigh* Did you people even read the comic? Like, at all? Because it goes into exquisite detail on exactly how devastating it would be if the written and spoken word suddenly became unintelligible. Airline pilots would be unable to read their instruments. Doctors would be unable to read the labels on bottles of medication, leading to them being withheld or misapplied. The launch buttons for nuclear missiles become indistinguishable from the shutdown buttons.<ref>This one is a bit of a stretch, due to both color-coding and the fact that the officer in question has sat at that same panel every day for years, so he should know which one is on which side.</ref> A Chicago PD bomb squad is unable to find a plutonium bomb hidden in an airport locker because the locker numbers are impossible to read. Militaries around the world stumble across national borders, risking war between neighbors, because they are unable to read maps. See that? Interesting how things change when you bother to '''read'''.
** To answer the original question, for all Superman's [[Buffy-Speak|alien-ness]] (and this goes for Wonder Woman/Martian Manhunter/whoever), the fact that they're humanoid, capable of normal human interaction, and are for all intents and purposes people, it's not hard to imagine their brain structures are similar enough to ours for that to happen. As to whether or not dyslexia is covered by their actual [[Nigh Invulnerability|powers]], however, I can't really say.
* Why are there still Christians in the DCU? I understand in our universe, but the DCU is host to several pantheons, entities and beings of cosmic power. You'd think they'd have joined pantheism by now
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