come on, everybody still counts on their fingers to

head, long enough to do anything with it, i can't find it to use it, i can't copy it over, i can't directly repeat it out loud after you, it's so maddening, i triple-check and get by but it's so exhausting, every thing, every number, how old i am, i mix up the names of my 22-year partner with someone i just met, i can't organize thoughts without heroic effort

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come on, everybody still counts on their fingers to add and substract smaller numbers, right? And then for bigger numbers everyone has to look it up or just die basically, yeah?

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Dyscalculia is still one of the most misunderstood conditions. It’s often swept together with Dyslexia, despite being very different.

Dyscalculia isn’t really ‘being bad at maths’. It’s being unable to rote memorise the times table, or any other tables that can be used as cribs by neurotypical people to do maths quicker. This is because, despite the name, the actual condition is a memory problem. Specifically, a problem with our symbolic memory tables.

This is why people with dyscalculia also tend to have the following problems too:

Can’t quickly or reliably memorise long strings of numbers, such as phone numbers, even their own ones.

Can’t remember people’s names on first meeting them, or second meeting them, or third meeting them…

Problems with non-phonetic spelling, inability to ever remember the right time to use an apostrophe.

And anything else that neurotypical people have an innate ability to just stick them into their symbolic memory tables. (Your picture was not posted)