<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>
<p>Jinger Duggar is now <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2026/09/jinger-duggar-ditches-jeremy-starts-new-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">podcasting without her husband</a> and opening up more about her life.</p>
<p>Together with Joy, she revealed that she has a learning disability.</p>
<p>Jinger’s dyslexia wasn’t caught and diagnosed as part of her <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2021/10/jason-duggar-totally-failed-by-cult-approved-homeschool-educatio/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cult-approved homeschooling curriculum</a>.</p>
<p>Instead, it even impacted the way that Jinger engaged with her faith, right down to reading the bible.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-1024x576.png" alt="Jinger Duggar on her Call Your Sister podcast." class="wp-image-563463" srcset="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-1024x576.png 1024w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-300x169.png 300w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-728x410.png 728w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-960x540.png 960w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-1080x608.png 1080w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02-1200x675.png 1200w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_02.png 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">On the second episode of her ‘Call Your Sister’ podcast, Jinger Duggar opened up about an aspect of her childhood.<span class="image-caption-credit"> (Image Credit: YouTube)</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-jinger-duggar-has-dyslexia">Jinger Duggar has dyslexia?</h2>
<p>On the second official episode of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGh3ed0b7m8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Call Your Sister</em> podcast</a>, Jinger and Joy-Anna Duggar discussed growing up.</p>
<p>They explored a few topics, from phases (of course using the “seasons” in-group language) to first crushes (when Jinger was 9, she had a crush on an older man she referred to as a “teacher,” though she acknowledges that he cold have been a teen at the time).</p>
<p>Jinger also disclosed that she has dyslexia, a learning disability that interferes with reading.</p>
<p>Had she attended anything resembling an actual school, it’s likely that this would have been identified in childhood.</p>
<p>Instead, Jinger learned her own workarounds … but it really interfered when it came time for Jinger to read the bible.</p>
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<p>When Jinger was around 12 years old, she shared, she sat down to read her religion’s sacred text from cover to cover.</p>
<p>That makes a lot of sense for a Christian (or a non-Christian looking to better understand our heavily culturally Christian society) to do, but Jinger discovered that this was a challenge.</p>
<p>Referring to this plan as part of the “season of life” that she was in at the time, Jinger tried to explain.</p>
<p>“I [was] just determined to read it from start to finish within two months,” she shared.</p>
<p>“And somehow I relied on audio Bibles,” Jinger revealed, “‘cause I have dyslexia.”</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-1024x576.png" alt="Joy-Anna Duggar on her Call Your Sister podcast." class="wp-image-563464" srcset="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-300x169.png 300w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-728x410.png 728w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-960x540.png 960w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_joyannaduggar_01.png 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Joy-Anna Duggar on the second episode of the ‘Call Your Sister’ podcast.<span class="image-caption-credit"> (Image Credit: YouTube)</span></figcaption></figure>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-i-know-how-hard-it-is-for-me-to-read-out-loud">‘I know how hard it is for me to read out loud’</h2>
<p>“Never been, whatever they say, diagnosed,” Jinger Duggar quickly admitted.</p>
<p>Due to our nation’s healthcare system, many people do not receive a diagnosis that could better explain their lives or open access to accommodations that they need in order to thrive.</p>
<p>“But I know how hard it is for me to read out loud,” she shared.</p>
<p>“Now, reading aloud is different than reading it like looking at it,” Jinger specified, “but it still is hard.”</p>
<p>Jinger acknowledged: “So my comprehension is terrible.”</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-1024x576.png" alt="Joy-Anna Duggar and Jinger Duggar on Episode 2 of their 'Call Your Sister' podcast." class="wp-image-563465" srcset="https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-1024x576.png 1024w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-300x169.png 300w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-728x410.png 728w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-960x540.png 960w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-1080x608.png 1080w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01-1200x675.png 1200w, https://cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com/uploads/2026/09/0921_jingerduggar_joyannaduggar_01.png 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Joy-Anna Duggar and Jinger Duggar on Episode 2 of their ‘Call Your Sister’ podcast.<span class="image-caption-credit"> (Image Credit: YouTube)</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>The primary argument for sending children to actual schools instead of condemning them to homeschooling doesn’t really involve diagnosing things like dyslexia or ADHD or left-handedness or other traits that a teacher might recognize but a parent might not. It’s not even on the Top 5 list.</p>
<p>But it is on the list. And, looking on social media, it doesn’t seem that <em>anyone</em> is surprised that Jinger’s struggles with reading slipped by Michelle.</p>
<p>When your priorities are indoctrination and isolation, entire academic topics can leave the curriculum, and a learning disability or other brain difference can easily go unnoticed — or, worse, blamed on the child.</p>
<p>It’s good that Jinger knows herself well enough as an adult to identify that she has dyslexia.</p>
<p>When kids with dyslexia learn to “work around” their reading difficulties, they often engage in guesswork — learning the shapes and sizes of words instead of phonics. That’s not the same as reading.</p>
<p>Many folks online have pointed out that dyslexia often runs in families. How many other Duggars have undiagnosed dyslexia?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2026/09/jinger-duggar-reveals-dyslexia-homeschooling-struggle/">Jinger Duggar Reveals Undiagnosed Dyslexia Made Her Struggle to Read the Bible as a Child</a> was originally published on <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com">The Hollywood Gossip</a>.</p>
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