Re: Ending & Beginning today. Big day.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, the serial 7s were not good fun. But the doc believes that if I had ADHD I would have made mistakes, and I didn’t – I went the wrong direction once (up in numbers, not down) before I caught myself, and I took forever because it was really, really hard to keep the original number in mind as well as do the subtraction, and I had to use my fingers to help, and had to talk aloud to help concentrate on the numbers (lots and lots and lots of number repetition happened before I could move onto the next step). I would have been a huge amount faster if I had been able to use paper. If I had been given a time limit then I would have failed badly, as time pressure just messes with my head when I am trying to work something out mentally. I guess I don’t feel an ADHD diagnosis (the cognitive assessment part of it, at least) should be based on serial 7s alone!!! Though I would love to know how others with diagnosed ADHD do with it 😉

I did very well in most maths at school, as long as it did not involve mental work. I remember struggling with written questions (eg. farmer Joe had a water tank that was so high and held so much water etc), because I had to mentally sift through the problem to pick out which numbers went where in the equations, as well as know what equations to use and in what order. If it was simply a matter of doing a sum (even a complicated one), then I excelled (if I had paper!!).

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