Comments | bwangninja: I'm diseased!

bwangninja

I'm diseased!

Aug 06, 2007 21:58

I'm 90% sure I have dyscalculia.

...a genetically-linked learning disability which affects a person's ability to understand, remember, and/or manipulate numbers and/or number facts (e.g. the multiplication tables).

Frequent difficulties with arithmetic, confusing the signs: +, −, ÷ and ×.

Reliance on 'counting-on' strategies, e.g., using fingers ( Read more... )

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reishka August 7 2007, 18:30:11 UTC

I'm pretty sure too. I still can't do simple arithmetic without having to use my fingers. And screw anything more than that, I can't do it. And yes, north=top. If I use a map, I have to physically turn the map so that the direction I am going is up.

bwangninja August 8 2007, 01:12:53 UTC

This disease actually explains SO MUCH. I couldn't even do data management, which is the easiest of the grade 12 maths. I dropped out because I started failing tests. :(

bakakim August 7 2007, 22:03:50 UTC

Poor Nikki!!
I can read a map sadly
and do change...and read the clock lol
You know what is worse? when you see a number like 4352 and you see it like that...but what comes out is 2534....YAY FOR ME!! lol *hug* I still love you....you pooor little girl!

bwangninja August 8 2007, 01:15:00 UTC

I have a rare disease :( lol
At least I can still love! *LOVE* <3

And yes you are exactly right, I see numbers backwards. When I'm cashing someone out at work and the total is like, $28.90, I'll tell them it's $82.09. lol

bakakim August 8 2007, 19:19:38 UTC

it's really not that rare...and it's not a disease it's a learning disapilatie....wow know who can't spell. anyways I have Dyslexia and Dysgraphia and a little bit of Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia. They did a bunch of test on me, and I had to take classes to learn words. I couldn't read till I was in grade 4. they did a test on me and found out that I'm reading 3 grades above what I should, and writting two below. Math I'm two grades behind. I only got good grade because I had to sit there and force myself. That's how I got better, I just had to keep doing it. why now I rock at reading, but I still need work on my spelling, speach, and numbers. I used to do that all the time with the change. *hug* your not alone...really 2 out of 10 kids have this. every go driving with me? I always have to look at my hands when I tell people to turn lol

bwangninja August 9 2007, 01:42:20 UTC

Wikipedia said 5% of the population [I'm assuming US] has mine, but I know it's a learning disability. I'm not like freaked or upset or anything, I just thought it was neat and explained a lot. XD I can get good grades in math only in summer school when it's all I focus on, and it's all I do. But then it starts disrupting my sleep. I'd had nightmares about calculus, if you can believe it. lol

bakakim August 9 2007, 15:48:38 UTC

YOU POOR DEAR!!!
a reason I never toook that class
it just looked so EVIL!!
Wikipedia LIED!!
heh heh
It's fun having them, because people can't say i'm drunk lol
ooo with math when they thought I was too slow or something, they had this book I had to work out of, I used to do that book...and then do other stuff in the class...it took 5 mintues to do that book, oh how much fun to see the look on my teachers face when I fishned...and he couldn't give me mor.e..I hated my grade 8 math techer....he was a evil man...should go egg his house