Do you know someone who can't read?

[lester1/2jr]

My next door neighbor Joyce's late brother Johnny was a good guy. He was our town's garbageman and a super nice dude who unfortunately succumbed to heart related illness. I learned later that he had a learning disability and could not actually read. Illiteracy was very common in history but is almost unheard of now particularly here in the hoity toity northeast. I'm not sure how he navigated life, but I guess he mostly stuck close to home and like recognized where stuff was from memory. Have you ever known anyone who couldn't read? Can you read?

[RCMerchant]

No, I don't.
I can't imagine life without books. I learned how to read before I was in kindergarten.

[Trevor]

I've never met anyone who couldn't read.

A member of my family is a special needs person and she devours books.

[Rev. Powell]

I don't know that I've met anyone that can't read. I have some intellectually challenged relatives and they can still read. With texting culture, not being able to read at all is pretty rare, I think.

[ER]

Through the public library I was a literacy coach for an Appalachian lady named Tammy, back when I was seventeen (and they, uh, kind of thought I was twenty-one), and like most illiterate people, or in her case "functionally illiterate," she had all manner of ways of getting through in a literate society, amazing and even admirable tricks of deduction and memorization. I was very proud of her for learning to read, which she did quickly and avidly, but nowhere nearly as proud as she was of herself.

[Alex]

I would imagine anyone who can't read would have a problem answering your question.

There was an old couple that used to stay across the road from my gran. Neither of them could read. I remember them bringing a letter over and asking if I could read it for them, but they stunk of cigarette smoke so badly I was struggling not to throw up.

Beyond that, only kids who haven't learned to read yet.

I have occasionally vaguely wondered if emoji's are going to replace the alphabet for many people.

[Leah]

We had someone at work in 2020 who couldn't read. He ended being fired for arriving at work 5 1/2 hours late.

[lester1/2jr]

"I would imagine anyone who can't read would have a problem answering your question. " thank you for explaining my own joke to me !

[Alex]

You're welcome.