bapu
I read music by ear.

Me too sometimes. 
 
But apparently I'm dyslexic. 

Bhav

bapu
I read music by ear.

Me too.

drewfx1
 
But apparently I'm dyslexic. 

So is Esvet Mumster.

Bhav
I could have just been a piano teacher / tutor.
 
I spent a very long time with sight reading practice books and loads of sheet music, but Ive never been able to read and play without requiring ages to figure out each bar of music.

I had trouble learning to sight read until I took singing lessons.  It showed a technique that was totally unexpected.
 
As a guitarist, I would read "that's an A, that's a C#, that's an A again, and that's an E."  Easy, because the frets on the guitar show me where A, C#, and E are.
As a singer, I had to find the A, and then go "up a maj 3rd, down to the root, then up to the 5th."  
 
Now I can sight-read for guitar (mostly) because I find that first note and then focus on the spacing as opposed to the actual note.  I found it much easier to see that going from one space up to the next was simply jumping 2 semi-tones.

Slugbaby

Bhav
I could have just been a piano teacher / tutor.
 
I spent a very long time with sight reading practice books and loads of sheet music, but Ive never been able to read and play without requiring ages to figure out each bar of music.

I had trouble learning to sight read until I took singing lessons.  It showed a technique that was totally unexpected.
 
As a guitarist, I would read "that's an A, that's a C#, that's an A again, and that's an E."  Easy, because the frets on the guitar show me where A, C#, and E are.
As a singer, I had to find the A, and then go "up a maj 3rd, down to the root, then up to the 5th."  
 
Now I can sight-read for guitar (mostly) because I find that first note and then focus on the spacing as opposed to the actual note.  I found it much easier to see that going from one space up to the next was simply jumping 2 semi-tones.

But I sing by ear as well bah. No idea how people can sing a pitch based on written music.

bapu

drewfx1
 
But apparently I'm dyslexic. 

So is Esvet Mumster.

Turd at 

I can sight read music and I Am a GUITAR PLAYER!!! 
let me repete that
 
I can sight read music and I Am a GUITAR PLAYER!!! 
 
It's never too late to learn!
 
Just don't try to learn out of a book

I had a hard time, because I started so young and my teachers taught me PATTERNS on the fretboard instead of learning the dots.  This was very confusing to me because I could see, for instance a pentatonic PATTERN on the fretboard, but it was divorced from any harmonic meaning.

Maybe that could be why I found it hard, I started playing very early and could play every scale by ear naturally.

Bhav
Maybe that could be why I found it hard, I started playing very early and could play every scale by ear naturally.

That was my problem before learning to sing.  I'd pick up a guitar and play almost anything by ear.  So I couldn't read sheet music because I'd have the phrasing down before I'd figured out which note was which on the staff.
 
The key was to see that the sheet music shows the note going up a 4th (for example) and then just play a 4th higher than the last note (and learning those intervals by ear). Actually trying to figure out that the 2nd line down was a D didn't matter - just that it was 4 spaces higher than the A that I was the previous note.