Re: how do you called a person who is seeing a number, but it is another one ?

[Misswho23]

Galin,

I have the exact same problem. I work in Graphic design and have been held back at work and was eventually discharged from my job of 11 years due to those types of “carless mistakes”. I was diagnosed about a year and a half ago and take adderall and generic citalapram ( think that’s how it spelled) for anxiety.

I would proof things over and over and still have errors with numbers or measurements, I also tend to transpose letters. Mostly the letters in the middle of the words. Part of that is visual since the brain does not take in each individual letter. In fact in most cases if the first and last letter of the word are correct your brain will processes it as being correct. Make sense?

But back to the numbers. It got so bad I actually called to make an appointment with a dyslexia specialist. I told her I don’t see numbers or letters backwards like “d or b” but transpose them or read it out loud as correct but write numbers out of order. Like if a number is written out as 764 I will perceive it as 674. Or is a word is transposed I will write it as tranpsosed. the p and s switch places. Sometimes I read words different than what they are is they are similar to another word.

So while I just talked to the dyslexia specialst over the phone she suggested that what I was describing was ADD. I was shocked at the time because I had no idea it would cause that type of thing. She said yes it is a working memory thing. And the time that the eyes pick up the information then transfers it to the brain. I did talk to the facilitator of my support group and she said that I was going too fast. Which is hard because I already take a bit more time to do my work.

She suggested meditation. I know that again. But explained that it’s training the brain to what it needs to focus on and then picking up on the details. LIke the numbers. The ADD brains jumps around so much that you may not even notice and then the perception of information comes in a bit erratic.

There is a condition called dyscalculia. http://www.dyscalculia.org. But I think it’s more with learning math. I don’t remember if I read about the seeing numbers differently.

you wrote “I always thinking that the want the work finish before i have begin it. That why I’m feeling so push by the time.”

I always want to work to finish before I start. And often get so jumbled up getting the work going and then trying to speed up that the information I take in also gets jumbled up. Today I kept going over measurements of 7.25 and it should have been 7.5 for what I was doing. I did a background for a design and of course it was not fitting, by the time I figure out I was seeing it off 20 min. had gone by. So then I feel rushed taking so much time to do such a simple measurement. This also causes me a lot of anxiety and often takes away what I enjoy about my work.

This got rather long. So I will book mark this as a favorite because I’m interested in what you find out as well. I’m still looking for a better solution. Because it makes me not trust my work even though I spend a lot of extra time going over it. I still miss the obvious.

Yes I feel like this is also the source of my job issues. I’ve always been complimented on my creativity and the design of my work. But the poor time management and mistakes have cost me. At least now I have something to base it on and not think I’m loosing my mind.

Keep me updated.

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