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[ladygreek]

I have a cousin who can't read, and I just found out a year ago.

All these years he hid it well--that is until we went to his mother's funeral in LA and he asked me to read the obituary to him because he forgot his glasses back in Houston. Then the next day we went out to eat. He asked me what I was ordering and I told him. He told the waitress I'll have what she is having.

The thing is I have never seen him wear glasses, nor had any of our other relatives including his brother. That's when we figured it out and asked him. He finally admitted it.

I had a co-worker the same way. He would sit and "read" the paper, but one day he made a comment about something he had "read" and it wasn't in the paper. What he would do is listen to folx conversations and then memorize what he had heard.

Then one day a group of us were going to a meeting in his car. We kept telling him to go a certain way because it was faster. But he refused and went his own route. We came back the same route. He had learned to get from point A to point B a certain way and could not deviate because he could not read the street signs.

There are more examples like this. At least Fantasia is doing something about it while she is young. Both of these men are over 50 years old.