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This is an interesting thread. I am good with words – writing, spelling (can read the jumbled paragraph as fluidly as normal text) – and I’m good with rotating shapes, but even if I proof-read a document a dozen times, I still find mistakes in it later, despite hours and hours of serious combing. It’s frustrating.
And I’ve never learned math. I can barely handle basic arithmetic. If I do it at all, I have to write it out on paper, or count on my fingers, and even then, am often wrong. I understood algebra, because that’s more of a logic or language thing – making two sides of an equation balance. I can add and sort of fake my way through multiplication, but I can’t subtract or do division well at all. I never learned the multiplication tables. The fallout from that is that I haven’t even attempted to balance my checkbook in over 20 years. I never know how much money I have because thinking about numbers completely freaks me out. When my kids were in early elementary school, they were being taught to count by 2s, 3s, 5s, etc. I found it helpful to think about numbers that way because I could visualize larger amounts in chunks. It’s easier if can see the units in my mind and assign colors to them – fives are red. Gave up on math a long time ago. Have always assumed I am just stupid when it comes to math. Hmm.
Dyscalcula does sound like Dracula’s sister. She is no doubt, at this very moment, wearing a white gown and wandering through a misty graveyard, looking for a mausoleum to hide in before dawn. My 13 year old son recently cajoled me into reading the original novel, Bram Stoker’s late 19th century book, “the” definitive Dracula, which is actually quite atmospheric. Stoker wrote it in the form a series of journal entries and letters by each of the different characters.
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