Random life fact bit.

[kippurbird]

I think I have Dyscalculia. It's the numbers dyslexia thingy. I started thinking about it when my roommate mentioned her brother had it. And really, numbers and math have frustrated me my entire life. May have to look into it.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I think I have that. I hated math. Threes turned into fives or eights, and nines became sevens or ones or fours, and plus signs turned into division signs or multiplication signs. It sucked mightily. It still does.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

For me, the numbers jump around and switch places too. Which makes it a bugger when I'm trying to type in ISBN numbers. I can't do any mental math at all.

[eddiesteddy4711.livejournal.com]

I tend to read numerical values backwards. Ish.

Like... A total coming to twenty-four fourty-six will somehow become twenty-four sixty-four when I try to say it out loud.

Happens all the time :/ But only on the last two numbers of a total, for some reason.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Weird. I just scramble them ALL up.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

I've had dyscalculia all my life. It went undiagnosed when I was a child, and whenever anyone tried to tutor me, I'd get headaches and tics and become belligerant. It wasn't until much later that anyone realized what it was. I don't think dyscalculia was discussed much when I was in school.

I still get headaches and tics when trying to figure out math and numbers.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

It's funny. I've been run through so many different diagnostic tests and they've never picked this up.

I get headaches and then just blow it off and say I don't care, it doesn't matter.

... this might explain my massive geometry failure.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

I couldn't graduate college without passing a math course (haha, just like high school), so they let me take the History and Philosophy Of Mathematics class. The teacher was a guitarist in denim who wrote his own textbook and spiralbound the copies. Every student was guaranteed at least a B average. The only way you could fail was if you constantly disrupted the lectures or showed up chronically late. Homework was optional and included poetry or short stories about math. Lectures came with original folk music.
It was fantastic.
(I got a B plus)

I rarely passed any math class, ever. That B plus was my highest grade in any course.

[the-norseman.livejournal.com]

I got a B in discrete mathematics, so I probably don't qualify. On the other hand I hated mathematics in grade and high-school, mainly because it was just doing the same sort of task umpteen different times.

[ellyodd.livejournal.com]

If you ever want to talk to other dyscalculics, go to http://www.dyscalculiaforum.com :)