Dyscalculia
I now have a word for my one most hated disability: Dyscalculia.
As far as I can remember, whenever I was faced with numbers, I would go into what I call the lazy mode, even if I wanted to do my math, I just couldn’t. My mind would wander, and some other silly, or maybe not, symptoms would kick in like, I would put it off until the very last minute or until the instance I would get whipped by mom a belt or something.
I remember flunking grade 3. I flunked math, it was a hard time and my mother had me bring a multiplication table everywhere we went. And she or my sister would quiz me anytime.
Although I wouldn’t say I had it, this condition of mind also spilled over to my being lazy to read. Like today, the thing I really hate most with current technology is “backreading” messages in chat or chat groups. This tends to put me in a situation where I would miss a lot on events, birthdays, get togethers, prayers and the lot.
In college, I had to find a way to get over this, but the only way possible was to pair the math (like calculus) with the subject to has more or less the same math (like economics). I did not do very well with all my accounting subjects, each one of the subjects in accounting, I did twice, I would flunk the first time, and passed the second time around.
As I aged, I needed to develop a system wherein I could compute stuff in a structure manner, like designing forms wherein I would fill in the figures for the multiplicand, the multiplier would already be on the form (like percentage). This came in handy together with a calculator. Without doing this, I would have a hard time piecing numbers together. I wouldn’t be able to come up with a quotation for the client. For price proposals, I had the whole proposal in a form already. Recalculating and checking my figures would be a breeze with this kind of system.
When I used to program in my early years, I would have the same problem when I would simulate results. I would usually get my program codes mixed up, fixed, and mixed up again. Hehehe. I also felt I never had to learn object oriented programming as for me procedural or the old manner of programing suffices as long as the results were the same. Surprisingly, I rarely have a hard time debugging errors.
Anyway, I currently have no actual use for numbers, the most encounter I have now with figures is tallying figures from different denominated paper or coin money.
Dyscalculia is a learning disorder that affects a person’s ability to understand number-based information and math.
People who have dyscalculia struggle with numbers and math because their brains don’t process math-related concepts like the brains of people without this disorder. However, their struggles don’t mean they’re less intelligent or less capable than people who don’t have dyscalculia.
The symptoms of this disorder usually appear in childhood, especially when children learn how to do basic math. However, many adults have dyscalculia and don’t know it. People who have dyscalculia often face mental health issues when they have to do math, such as anxiety, depression and other difficult feelings.
There’s also a form of dyscalculia that appears later in life. This form, acquired dyscalculia, can happen at any age. This usually happens for other reasons like a medical condition.
As far as I can remember, whenever I was faced with numbers, I would go into what I call the lazy mode, even if I wanted to do my math, I just couldn’t. My mind would wander, and some other silly, or maybe not, symptoms would kick in like, I would put it off until the very last minute or until the instance I would get whipped by mom a belt or something.
I remember flunking grade 3. I flunked math, it was a hard time and my mother had me bring a multiplication table everywhere we went. And she or my sister would quiz me anytime.
Although I wouldn’t say I had it, this condition of mind also spilled over to my being lazy to read. Like today, the thing I really hate most with current technology is “backreading” messages in chat or chat groups. This tends to put me in a situation where I would miss a lot on events, birthdays, get togethers, prayers and the lot.
In college, I had to find a way to get over this, but the only way possible was to pair the math (like calculus) with the subject to has more or less the same math (like economics). I did not do very well with all my accounting subjects, each one of the subjects in accounting, I did twice, I would flunk the first time, and passed the second time around.
As I aged, I needed to develop a system wherein I could compute stuff in a structure manner, like designing forms wherein I would fill in the figures for the multiplicand, the multiplier would already be on the form (like percentage). This came in handy together with a calculator. Without doing this, I would have a hard time piecing numbers together. I wouldn’t be able to come up with a quotation for the client. For price proposals, I had the whole proposal in a form already. Recalculating and checking my figures would be a breeze with this kind of system.
When I used to program in my early years, I would have the same problem when I would simulate results. I would usually get my program codes mixed up, fixed, and mixed up again. Hehehe. I also felt I never had to learn object oriented programming as for me procedural or the old manner of programing suffices as long as the results were the same. Surprisingly, I rarely have a hard time debugging errors.
Anyway, I currently have no actual use for numbers, the most encounter I have now with figures is tallying figures from different denominated paper or coin money.