Turned down because of dyslexia!

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If I'm paying a ****-ton of money to have someone's sperm implanted in me, you can sure as hell bet I want that sperm to be as perfect as possible.

That said, if there was full disclosure when choosing the sperm ("this person has dyslexia") then I don't see it being that big of a deal. It's just not profitable. People won't pay money for that, so it's better business to decline the person and spend resources on someone without any (known) disorders or diagnoses.

I think that's stupid. That's one of the most dumbest reasons that I've ever heard.

That's old terminology. Try googling Non-Verbal Learning Disability (NVLD or NLD.) I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to find your people. It's a cognitive difference that is closely associated with ASD. And you are describing it perfectly. These folks have very little ability to visualize with their mind's eye.

I'm totally different. There's a good chunk of the ASD population that is VERY good at visualizing and sucky at auditory processing (Hearing.) That's my type of ASD. We tend to be really good at directions, and can read facial expressions great when we bother to look at you.

I've been told I likely have dyslexia and dyspraxia. Some say that dyslexics are creative but it's also associated with:

difficulties with numbers (dyscalculia)
poor short-term memory
problems concentrating and a short attention span, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
poor organisation and time-management
physical coordination problems (developmental coordination disorder, also called DCD or dyspraxia)

(NHS website).

The website also lists difficulties such as swapping words, transposing letters, etc.

Also, from my degree I've learnt that dyslexia isn't even 'one' disorder as viewed by the professionals. It's a collection of reading difficulties that affect different people differently.

Personally, I think it's quite reasonable. Why on earth would you deliberately create, often lifelong, obstacles in a child's life if you've literally got a bank of choice? This isn't two people sitting down and saying "I'd like child like me/let's have kids together."

Bad times for me, though as I've heard that you get a discount on IVF if you donate eggs and being a lesbian I'm going to need some sort of artificial conception. Nobody would want my - ASD/ADHD/deaf/probably dyslexic and dyspraxic genes.

If you are suggesting Aphantasia is old, defunct terminology you are completely wrong. The inability to visualise with the mind's eye has no doubt been around for a long time, but it's only recently that the term aphantasia has been used and with it much research done about it.