dragonsanddemons wrote:
I used to think I was stupid because the basic math stuff, and things like reading analog clocks, came so easily to everyone else, but I still have to do things like count on my fingers. Then I heard of dyscalculia, looked it up, and found that I have almost every symptom. I suspect my mom may have it, too, but not know about it.
My problem was more of an implementation problem, than one of not being able to do it, and I never counted on my fingers that I can recall, but yeah, I had the same problems. I had laid my life down by the time I was 4, and I KNEW what I had to do, and one thing was LEARN MATH!! !! ! Logically, you would figure it would be the EASIEST. IT WASN'T! And my mother told me my eighth grade teacher APOLOGIZED to her, because my 8th grade teacher was NEW and, basically INCOMPETENT! She LITERALLY just about SAID as much! I will NEVER forget her! She was from hawaii, and never let us forget it. She even had the class sing songs, etc... some of which were from hawaii.
Anyway, the industry changed, and I moved to a different part, so the need for complicated math was gone, but I can do a lot better with math now anyway.