Living With Dyscalculia (It’s Not Just "Number Dyslexia")
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2019
- Josie was diagnosed with Dyscalculia when she was 19. Dyscalculia is often described as "number dyslexia" but it's not quite as simple as that. It can affect your maths skills, reading clocks, remembering people's names or reading maps. Dyscalculia is actually one of the most underdiagnosed learning difficulties there is.
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I always wondered why I literally could NOT do math how hard I tried. I broke down in tears due to failing math and all the hours I would put into math just to turn around and have NOTHING come out it it. I hated thinking I was just stupid but it wasn’t until my last year of nursing school that I realized I had Dyscalculia and I learned that I can’t do paper math but I can do hands on med math!
I was in special education due to mine. I’m not diagnosed but I’m well aware that this is my issue. Back then people just assumed I was dumb.
@FlyingMonkies325 It's not even complex or hard for children necessarily- ancient peoples grasped this. But our brains have always been the same, only things that have changed are expectations and stigma. Dys-everything has always existed; dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia. Back then (think ancient Rome and middle ages) almost everyone was illiterate anyway, and had strong regional dialects, and writing as well as art was foreign to them so it didn't show. Math, formulas, symbols, quantitative reasoning are actually processed in different parts of the brain than speech, spelling, long term memory and language. That's why Dyscalculia can be linked to head injuries and memory issues such as PTSD actually, since it messes with and your brain tries to remove or erase a certain chunk of your memory. It's an issue with memory retrieval in short term memory, even if you'd think math is stored in your long-term memory. It apparently isn't, not the majority of it.
@FlyingMonkies325 yeah I do agree age definitely had something to do with it and weird standards of judging if a student has solved something properly or improperly. I used to (still do) count with fingers or memorize times tables by visual memory only and color coding- I did not calculate a single thing. Same with recognizing patterns in divisible numbers, like 4, 8, 12 are all divisible by 4 and 2. I just memorized patterns of numbers that seem to occur in groups and seem related, and did 0 actual math and got yelled at when my scores used to actually turn out higher than normal kids in 1-4th grade, just because I explained it by saying I memorized a pattern and chart and didn't do calculation 😂 that's just bs. A lot of kids who don't have dyscalculia learn that way too when they're given rules on how to solve things even though their own personal way is easier and more accessible to them it's automatically wrong bc it's not what the 'school wants'
I still passed most tests with ease until algebra where they want you to show some super elaborate concept of solving it that even some college students cannot do, even if you somehow brute force the correct answer they call you stupid for not doing it "their way"
I'm also pretty sure the part of the brain that handles issues related to dyscalculia does develop much later than speech, especially processing values, the idea of currency, banking, spending money and time. Babies learn to talk by 2ish. I learned to read at 5. I seemingly never learned how to do math lol. Of course all of the mathematicians in ancient times were also adults. They had very abstract ways of thinking and accepted any weird methods as long as the results are consistent. Pythagoras even had a weird math cult...all adult men
You pretty much had to be an adult, like 30+ to spend enough time thinking that stuff out. But there are instances of children learning other things very quickly like langauge and fine motor skills and music all throughout history because that is simply available to be developed earlier
Some people who've had actual trauma and bullying surrounding math for all of their childhood and being called stupid and bullied for years get a similar ptsd-like block when having to perform math concepts but they can handle money and time just fine. In some circumstances it's psychological too when they thrust all of this garbage onto kids who aren't even 10 and they wonder why kids despise math and start failing it by high school
@FlyingMonkies325 well I'm glad there's no more math for me lol. I've used khan before in high school a few times but that's it. I was diagnosed well into college but I finished a history major and psychology minor and going to graduate school, glad there's no more math involved.
You need a diagnosis or else they absolutely are not buying it though. Dyslexia can be recognized by people who aren't even trained, the struggle some people have is obvious.
My cousins for example can't write (handwriting) or read to this day. They type (rarely) and need audiobooks and speech to text for papers, but both are in grad school. They're not even officially diagnosed because to them it was so clear they have issues and need help. You're totally thrown under the bus with dyscalculia even in college settings/standards.
dyscalculia can be hard to find to begin with in an academic setting especially because it produces more shame and people try to hide it because for years we've been told we are just lazy and don't like math.
Yes! I had the exact same experience but when I had my pharmacy tech and clinical medical assistant courses dosage calculations were easy because they're tangible and make sense!
After year two of primary school I stopped understanding maths. It just became a looped experience of: confusion, temporary understanding. lost recall, anxiety at not grasping it, shame for being so very stupid, quiet burning tears while the teacher stood next to me trying to explain the hell out of something 'everyone but me' understood, guilt for taking up the teachers time, pretending to understand to end the mortification of NOT understanding, not raising my hand with questions - no way, not being able to finish a worksheet, shame at being in the bottom group. THEN skipping maths class in high school, wishing for a time I could elect NOT to take maths, knowing I would never be the veterinarian I dreamed of being. Becoming something else instead.
And now in my late forties, hearing about dyscalculia.
This is so similar to me as well!
Ever since I was a kid, I felt almost called by the animal kingdom, I felt like to help them was my duty.. But ever since elementary school, solving the easiest stuff forced me to dig so deep in my head, until I forgot what I was actually trying to calculate. In middle school and highschool, it just got worse and worse, I would never say anything when I didn't understand, because whenever I did, the teacher's just seemed to shame me for being so dense with numbers.. There was just so much pressure towards the end of hs because I had to take three subjects i would specialize in. But since my grades and aptitude to understand was so bad, the teachers refused for me to take math and physics, which unfortunately, are the key subjects to studying zoology. I'm so frustrated with the school system, because all they do is make teenagers feel stupid, and shame them for it, and in the end, they wind up working in something else, never being able to pursue their dreams.
you know what......it was about time to stop understanding at primary 2......... because of their bad teaching and non sense ways of doing their calculations ........you are right and you must have fallen into the math traps created by the teachers .......( they dont know about it ) , i guess you totally got messed up with the carrying over and borrowing......... and then you are kinda forced to follow ..................this is one of the biggest math traps.........which not a lot of people know about it..........ppl only think about getting the right answer and they thought it is a strategy that can be used..........sorry ........this is one of the restrictions to me........i never teach carrying over and borrowing , side effects so much.......... most of the students learnt this way are not so good at math usually .........there are some exceptions tho.........find me for the truth......
@@AGDollFan4Ever yes cause you guys learnt the wrong way....and went off track.......thx to the school .........i bet you use carrying overs and borrowing , this is the biggest math traps you can fall into and then afterwards.......you stop growing knowledge basically .......
@@van-os5hs Do you want a change ? i can help you , math is a subject that if your foundation is off track.....you stop learning ......... school is one of the reasons why tho......... dont tell me you can be worse than my 5 years old student.......the problem here is that you havent built the right blocks for your foundation ........... just like i cannot speak Russian , does it mean i have dyslexia ? i am worse than a Russian 3 years old.....they can say mom and dad in Russian i cannot . You get what i mean ? the foundation of math is the most important core ........ but school twisted it created math traps i see a lot of people falling into......
I was diagnosed with dyscalculia last year and it upsets me so much that everybody I know with dyslexia is diagnosed as children, but I had to wait until I was 18 for my school to even consider testing their students
I was also diagnosed a few month ago, 17 at that time... It's so weird that something so obvious was never noticed by anyone who teached me. I played cello for 8 years and my music teacher always degraded me for not being able to read the sheet music. I wish I would have been diagnosed earlier... It would have saved me a lot of pain and justification
It does suck. Im 30 and just figuring it out now
@@stormyinspace6422 yes
👋 Hey I fear I might have it to, how was the testing?
Keylee Ojeda it was mainly just some math questions, some questions about “which of these is bigger” and a general life section where they asked me if when I learned to read a watch or if I have trouble with money or numbers in general.
It just annoys me how people don't realize it's a genuine disability, I mean most people say they're bad at maths but they don't struggle with it like I do, and my maths teachers always told me I was lazy and wasn't paying attention, instead of trying to make it easy to understand, it was like reading some crazy gibberish, and then when I was moved to the remedial maths class; the teacher there just kept calling me a retard, and said "pay attentio you stupid bitch" even though I was the only one sitting up the front trying to take notes with my textbook open while everyone else was just sitting back handballing a footy to each other. I mean if I was diagnosed with dyslexia they would've taken that seriously, but they act like dyscalculia is some made-up condition.
Literally every one of those symptoms is applicable.
OMG same all my teachers say I’m lazy and have no effort but I truly can’t do it I think I have discalcula and dyslexia and maybe even OCD I don’t know how to tell my parents I want to find out if I do have them but I can’t bring myself to tell and I’ll be super embarrassed
Hi, I’m so sorry to hear about that inappropriate and demeaning language from your teacher and for any teacher to convey such demeaning and untrue and unnecessary things to a student or for that matter anyone is completely unacceptable. It was not your fault that your teacher behaved inappropriately towards you and was the teacher’s fault. I wish the best for you. May I ask what strategies you have used to get through everyday life despite dyscalculia?
This is literally the same thing which happened to me until grade 9 and then during that year my parents saw my learning issues and took me to a child psychologist and boom I had LD, dyscalculia sucks but I know it's not my issue for getting it 😊😊 later in grade 10 I got Special education 😊 and it helped me a lot 🤗🤗 now I'm going to apply for college 🥰 in music! Although music theory is a little hard, I have a certificate and I hopefully can do well ❤️🩹
I say to my parents that I have adhd and that is why I can hardly wait and why I have to much energy but no they say because I have good grades I don’t have it wich is really unfair especially when I lose stuff they just blame it on me and thinking I don’t have it
I'm currently writing a book where one of the main characters (has a point of view in the story) is very, very intelligent but struggles with Dyscalculia. She's 13, so she hasn't been diagnosed yet (and will be diagnosed in a later book, it's a trilogy that's a adventure-based story), and I found this video very insightful! Thank you!
Where on Wattpad?
@@bareenreza992 No, I don't think I'm going to put it on wattpad, but it's currently a WIP and I'm hoping to get it published one day. :)
@@sydney9000 It would definitely be a unique story. Good luck :)
the character u mentioned seems like me lol. we're even in the same age.😂 i'm looking forward to your book cuz it seems like i'm gonna relate hardcore. props to you for writing a new and unique concept for a book.☺️ i'd love to read it! where can i read it?
@@yuri6642 It's a work in progress at the moment, but I'm hoping to get it published once I get it written. Unfortunately I've been very busy with school lately, but I'm still finding time to write it!
I am not sure if I have Dyscalculia ( I don't want to self-diagnose) but I struggled with Maths so much. Ever since we're supposed to have learnt our multiplication tables Maths became this painful ordeal I had to go through. I couldn't remember them at all. Even as a 23 year old I only remember the simplest tables (2,5,10,) so many concepts make no sense to me and my entire school life was full of teachers, friends, parents, tuition teachers getting frustrated with me. And me feeling stupid and crying. In eight standard I got the best Maths teacher I ever had, he recognised how well I did in every other subject and decided to talk to me about it. He helped me so much, he would take out extra time to explain things to me in the simplest terms and was so patient. Always reassuring me it's okay and smiling. Sadly he left my school after one year. Maybe if he had stayed I could have been better. But I will always respect him immensely for his efforts and for not making me feel stupid.
I was diagnosed at 20 years old. People don't take it seriously and for me personally is more than a struggle, specially because I'm a Science major student in Biomedical Sciences. My college sees it as a "fake diagnosis", which has taken a toll on my academic progress and my confidence. I hope someday, it can be research better.
Why do people justify mocking it or writing it off, especially when you have to deal with a lot of significant figures, constants, and scientific notation?
@@coopergates9680 I have dyscalculia and I almost always get mocked, made fun off or not taken seriously when it comes up. It's just a matter of people not being able to grasp how much it can affect a person. Furthermore people don't want to understand it because it's not relatable at all and pretty unbelievable in certain respects. Virtually nobody would be willing to walk a mile in the shoes of a dyscalculic.
How do you manage all the mathematical parts of the major? I want to major in STEM but I don’t trust myself with chemistry and math
I am also dyscalculic. When I was a teenager having this learning disability really impacted my self confidence. I did go to uni and graduated,but it still affected the type of jobs I could apply for.
Wow how did you get through math to get a degree??? While having dyscalculia
dealing with my taxes, or running through my spreadsheet (yes, i have a budget written down so i know exactly what to pay who and on what paycheck...makes my life easier) paying my monthly bills and figuring out what i have left over after it all just goes out the door is hard enough with a "normal" brain.
trying to do this with a disability similar to dyslexia would cause me so much more anxiety i'd need to carry around a cart full of paper bags to breath into to calm down.
Dyscalculia has blighted my life. I have no sense of direction and become disoriented easily. I get lost all the time and don't underatand directions beyond the first step. I also hate most board games, because if I manage to grasp the rules, I have no sense of strategy. The confusion I feel when it is explained makes me feel physically sick. It is as if my brain has seized up and won't operate.
I feel you!
My psychiatrist, the one that tested me at least- put me through an awfully humiliating testing procedure to test for all known learning disabilities in adults. (I was a psych major, 3rd year at the time, so I literally knew in detail what I was being tested for- and which problem they are trying to evaluate. She knew this, and got sooooo mad.)
I breezed past the verbal understanding and expression segments such as spelling, grammar, ect, as well as vocab. I even speak 5 languages, and I was tested and diagnosed when I was 20. This psychiatrist would get SO angry when I passed tests that would suggest comorbidity with ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and more.
I have none of those, It's just Dyscalculia. She was fired not long after I got my official papers for my college and I told the office about what happened, and how she quite liberally insulted me for 'not being able to ever complete a psychology degree', and telling me I will go nowhere in life because my case of Dyscalculia seems partly trauma-induced; meaning that childhood memories around academics have likely contributed to it, and I think that's honestly one of the only things she got right with me. It was determined my general math skills without a calculator were capped at a 4th grade understanding, and with a calculator at 8th or 9th grade. She was right, I switched to sociology and finished my first BA. Now I'm in my second year on my second BA on History- literally no issues and above average performance. Nobody suspects I'm 'stupid'. Everyone called me stupid in HS and while I was a psych major.
They psych said it's such a 'nasty case' of Dyscalculia, because you wouldn't know it (I didn't even know or suspect it myself) unless you took away my calculator and gave me a timed test with long division, algebra, ect. without a calculator but with paper, then with a calculator, then with both and without both.
And then the same test but even shorter, on basic subtraction and addition, which is what happened to me in remedial college math. I understand numbers, their values, negatives, fractions, negatives into fractions, variables, clocks, time, money- you name it; as well as symbols (such as for traffic symbols) and I even remember some formulas. IDK at some point I did give up on math class and literally hid in the bathroom while in High School and cried out of shame, so I didn't listen to any lectures or readings nor does math or numbers interest me. Math and dealing with numbers literally traumatizes me at this point due to all of the insults and people saying I will never amount to anything, or claiming I'm lazy and just don't like math. I also don't remember names, I ghost people all the time without thinking, but I've chocked it up to generally not caring to learn names and maybe just not being truly open to new people. But I truly am terrible at remembering people's names unless they are friends or family. My classmates in college? IDK who the F*#$ they are, not by first or last name. Even in graduate school. I only care to remember the prof. I have no issues with nonverbal communication, body language, ect.- anything that would suggest ADHD or ASD. In terms of those functions, I'm the polar opposite. So it hurt me even more to pick up on the subtleties of the snide comments, jokes, treatment, exclusion, standoffish and degrading body language and words from peers.
This even messes up the way I ask for help- I simply don't. Any help, with a pen, a location, directions, anything. The amount of mockery I've received for asking for help in my early years made me completely disregard any idea of ever asking for help.
I know my directions such as right and left too, but admittedly I am a visual and muscle memory learner when it comes to navigation. I use fingers to count and cannot eyeball-count any number higher than a six-sided die. I have to physically cover up the dots, or mark off tallies when manually counting items when it's more than 7.
I cannot read maps, graphs or charts for shit. I cannot solve mazes or puzzles. I often transpose numbers even when it's clear to me what they are saying and I know what I should write, and I have no issue actually discerning an 8 from a 9 or 1 from 7 (In Europe, you're taught to write them extremely similar)- it just comes out garbled, usually I swap numbers next to each other in a sequence (Not 1,2,3, but rather 254 becomes 245). If someone dictates a phone number, let's say; 232-3426-9245, I would typically swap out the second chunk, 3426 into 3462, you get the idea. I have no issue with spelling, my spelling is usually above average and I've never had grammar issues such as the your/you're and their/there/they're, even across multiple languages which have similar distinctions like that.
II got diagnosed once I was at my wits end, 3rd year into my psych degree. I failed remedial math SIX TIMES. t really does not rear its ugly head until I'm asked about spatial awareness and depth perception, as well as adding or rounding two very large numbers to be multiplied like 40x 500, 5000 or 50,000, or of course when you take away my calculator. It was beyond humiliating and I would skip more and more classes the more I'd fail the class and have to retake it with the same professor who labeled me as- I quote - incompetent. Teachers NEED to be aware of this condition and how to spot it in children, AND adults.
I also cannot and will not drive, do adult tasks like that- I have above average vision, but I do not drive because I found hitting the brakes and timing when to turn and pull the brakes according to how fast I'm going to be downright panic-attack inducing. I think it's vastly misunderstood as 'number Dyslexia instead of the spectrum it should be. As she says in the video, she cannot read analog clocks. I can. But I also can't count change or cash, ESPECIALLY tips for the life of me, or have any grasp on spatial things (Dodgeball and soccer flashbacks...) and imagining 3D objects. You know those tests where they show a 2D image of an arrangement of cubes from one angle and tell you to count the total cubes? I'm lost with those. My brain just refuses. I think Dyscalculia needs far, far FAR more representation. Most folks, adults and children, who have severe dyslexia also have undiagnosed or perhaps diagnosed dyscalculia. It's rare to wind up with only Dyscalculia, without Dyslexia, Dyspraxia or Dysgraphia.
I'm 72 years old and have never been diagnosed with Dyscalculia, but I know that it applies to me and it has been a constant embarrassment all my life. I have never applied for jobs that required entrance exams, or intelligence tests, because I knew I would fail. So I've done rubbish jobs my whole life. At school, which I hated with a vengeance they made me wear a dunce cap and stand in the corner of the classroom. I was ridiculed and made to feel absolutely wretched. I have always hated everything to do with school or formal education, because I felt so stupid. If you think you are suffering from Dyscalculia do something about it, otherwise there is a danger you too could waste your life like I, and no doubt others have.
This is "J". I suffered the same way. And was punished as you were. Didn't get diagnosed till I was 41!! It's frustrating. Always avoided jobs/ games that had to do with numbers.
I avoid working in stores because I'm afraid i wont know how to work a cashier ):
Luckily most tills work out the change you have to give for u .
I manage but did take me a while to work out the change to give people . I give weird change tho . Like if the till says to give 15.90 change I give a 10+5 . But then a 50c and a 10c and a 10c and a 10c and a 10c. Like I literally count in my head 6,7,8,9 with 10c pieces coz i can add 1 ok lol . Coworkers grab coins instantly. Im so grateful for cards.
same i have a dyscalculia too but they want me to work on stores as a cashier its really hard that have a dyscalculia like me that work om stores using a calculators that people judges but they understand me but they didint know that i have math problems and issues about this but i really want to manage bussiness even i have a dyscalculoa by using calculators to practice and compute moneys
I was the same for the longest time but I got a job at Starbucks as a cashier and it wasn’t too bad lol. Mostly cuz people payed with mobile or cards, but you will get ppl who pay with cash and the machine tells you how much to give back. There was times that I did mess up.. ALOT lol
No sure what ur doing now but I was a cashier and I have dyscalculia I picked it up really quick just be confident
I was diagnosed at 17 which felt like a huge relief! So glad it gets more and more known nowadays.
How is the testing, how do you get diagnosed?
How do you get diagnosed ? I want to get tested for this but i dont know how
@@eyitsyaboi4527 idk if you've gotten an answer already but the proper way to get a diagnosis is via a psychiatrist or licensed mental health practitioner
I have always struggled in math since time tables, division, decimals and everything after that.
last year I told my school counselor about how hard math is for me and she basically told me that I'm only bad at math because I tell myself I'm bad at math😐
that *obviously* didn't help with the fact that when I look at numbers and word problems in class it just looks like a bunch of jumbled nonsense and my brain can't wrap around the concepts or make sense of what I'm looking at. I dread assignments that include statistics and clocks and percentages.
It's like being handed a piece of paper w/ a whole other language you've never seen before written on it. Most of my math teachers just assumed I remembered concepts from the year prior when in reality I've been lost since 5th grade math and I'm a junior in high school still confused abt concepts I'm expected to have memorized years ago..
When we got to the part where you learn square roots and stuff in school I felt miserable because everyone kept saying its just multiplication and I was struggling because I do not remember the tables at all, but everyone expects you to.
I was today years old and I'm 34. My whole life makes so much sense now like a huge epiphany. Up until today I felt anger and shame that I can't for the life of me memorize my phone number after 8 years of having it. I know the numbers but sequences jumble up. If someone tells me something is the number 53 I remember a 3 and a 5 and somehow flip it to 35. I also get lost in familiar areas to the point that I missed orientation day because I got lost on my way to the starting point and ran my scooter to an empty tank after 2 hours of trying to get un-lost. I got lost in school hallways without a friend, I walked the wrong way many times in the shopping street in my home town, and even after probably 1000 car trips between the store and our home I'm still not confident I could drive myself and not get lost. When I tried to take my drivers license I asked my driving teacher to not say turn left or right but turn your way and my way (passenger vs driver). My whole life suddenly makes sense.
my little sister was recently diagnosed and to my family it was quite a relief! she now gets proper support at school and my parents have become a lot more understanding and patient with her (consequently my sister is less stressed out). thanks for your video, i found this very helpful too :)
That's great to hear. Glad it was helpful!
How did she get diagnosed where did she go
ThegirlwhocriedDylanO'Brien I‘m not sure to be honest; I think her teachers in school suspected it and then she got tested in school. I don’t know where you’re from but we live in Germany so maybe there are different places to go to get diagnosed :)
How was she diagnosed, how is the testing?
Keylee Ojeda please see my other reply :)
Thank you for the lovely comments & thank you to BBC The Social for having me!
I've loved reading the responses.
Josie xx
It's always nice when people can clarify myths and misconceptions so they don't keep getting straw manned. Maybe we need people with dyscalculia to point out that "PIN number" is redundant ^^
Is it easier to be off by a factor of ten more often? I think that's a mistake people who are good with numbers can still make, or to add or leave off some other digit.
Speaking of time, as a software developer who can normally take care of my day in and day out numerical stuff, a pain in the neck still comes up - date mapping.
In other words, given an arbitrary calendar date (such as June 5th, 2019), was that a business day? In other words, not only is it a week day, was it not a holiday or a day people took off of work for other reasons? Sometimes a holiday lands on a weekend and people take a Monday or Friday nearby off.
The opposite is equally annoying (given a calendar year or month, list all the business days in it).
I apologize if numerous situations unrelated to that are just as frustrating. Is it easier when you group some number of identical objects and use arrangements to teach numbers? Or no help
Wait this affects you knowing your left from right? That explains why I can never memorize it and have to hold up my hands to tell
Write it on the inside of your shoe soles. It helps.
Me too!! I have to work out which hand I write with to know which is my right hand. I'm 44, and still, to this day, have to do a little hand wave (to run though the above scenario) if giving directions. Its not automatic to know which is my left or right hand
@@lindsayrichardson7899 well so much for me growing out of it
@@blainefiasco8225 I did consider a little L and R tattoo on my wrists, but I guess you learn to live with coping strategies, like little waves with your writing hand, or other ways to remember :-)
I’ve been thinking about this for MONTHS but my parents don’t believe me. They think I just need to “Try harder”. I’m definitely sending both of them this video!
This video has been really helpful for me realizing that this might be my issue with the things you described. I feel I'm a bit too old to ask for help with these things, but it makes sense and I feel I can begin to understand why clocks, names, directions and mixing up numbers have been a struggle my whole life. I hope to ask for support in the future when I need it. Ty.
I’m fairly sure I have this, but I’ve never been officially tested for it, even though I have been for dyslexia and diagnosed with that.
I have always struggled with Maths & English though school and college (resitting GCSEs) but Maths is by far the worst of the two for me.
I think I’ve managed to hide my problem well (maybe too well) in my life and somehow managed to find jobs and earn a living, even though I’ve struggled with my math.
Despite all this, I’m now in my 30’s and work as a web developer for an amazing company.
I’ve realised maths skills aren’t always everything and although I will always be envious of friends and peers who can do maths so quickly and easily, I know that I have skills in things my peers would struggle with.
I’m turning 15 soon and my friends still count my money for me so I know how much I actually have on me. It’s really embarrassing, especially when New people join our group.
The worst part of it is that it's such an unknown disability that when I try to explain it to someone, they just don't get it.
I was diagnosed with dyscalculia when I was 7 years old. This is pretty early and my teacher didn't think I had dyscalculia, but luckily my mom knew that it was more than just trouble with math. People never believed me before AND after my diagnosis. I've had people tell me I didn't have dyscalculia because I was "too young to know" and I just had "a little trouble with math", even though I told them I was officially diagnosed. Due to people shaming me i've always felt dumb or stupid when I couldn't do something that was simple to another person. After reading these comments, i'm glad that i'm not the only one who feels/felt like this. I just hate to see how no one knows what it is, or underestimates dyscalculia. Even a math teacher didn't know what it was. So many people tell me to just study hard and it'll get easier for me, but they don't understand that's not how it works. People just don't understand that it's a genuine disability and it makes my life so much harder. Thank you for making this video to help educate people.
I love how simple you put it! I honestly said yes to all the questions and feel I should have been diagnosed as a child. I get very frustrated, and my heart begins to palpitate when I have to do anything with math.
I was born with it, and I don't know why, in my school people usually say I'm in special-ed which I am not in special-ed, I only know 1+1 = 2, like the easy math problems. And I am 14, it is really stressful when you have dyscalcalulia and thinking about the future like jobs, and paying Bill's.
All is well👍... face it...and do career in whatever u love like bio field..
I can do math addition and subtraction even multiplication and division but I'm very slow...does that count? I learnt reading the clock when I was in 8th grade and until now I'm kind of slow it feels tricky, even analysing where is left and where is right, like I have to practice where my left and right is...is it possible that I have dyscalculia??? I'm 25 now ...I finished my studies and I'm finding it hard to look for a job because of my situation 😢
When it came to having dyscalculia and school, math lessons especially around GCSE sent me into depression and I felt so crap about myself because I’d think I’m doing well and I’d fail my exam time and time again. Around the time I did my GCSE is when the government made it a new rule that you had to retake maths and English until you got C when the old rule was until you were 18. I ended up taking my maths exam 8 times and never got higher than a D. The anxiety I had going to lessons was so horrible. I had a teacher when she was comforting me say it best “it’s like telling a fish to ride a bike”
I'm 26 and just finding out about this now math has always been a big fear of mine and I've always struggled with it. I never knew how much it has impacted me until now, that I'm learning about dyscalculia 🙃
What about the other signs mentioned, such as maps, reading clocks, or right and left sides?
i have light symptoms, but had all of them as a kid. My sister also has light symptoms and is working on her BA in Maths
I used to be very afraid going to school because of multiplication table. I even wondered why my classmates could understand it really well while for me it was even painstaking to look at the numbers.
I have started to research this topic because my daughter (7) is terrified by maths. She switches from shouting and being aggressive to crying her heart out just by zur mentioning of maths homework. Thanks to the hint of a great friend who has the same kind of problems with writing and reading I will have my daughter tested as soon as possible.
I myself had enormous problems reading the clock and telling left from right. So that figures.
What hurts me most, however, is seeing how my daughter starts to put herself down in all areas of school, even though she reads at an 8 year old level... Her blockage in mathe seems to affect her overall self confidence even though she is awfully talented in reading, singing and drawing.
She seems to narrow her own worth down to her daily failures in maths. So I hope she will meet other great kids with dyscalculia and they will cheer each other up.
Thank you for your video! It means a lot.
When I was 7, apparently I would come downstairs from my room late at night and stand in front of my dad, while I was clearly sleep walking, and begin to cry, "It's the math... it's so hard...". Should have been an indication right there how much it was haunting me. I, too, could read at a much higher level, was talented with writing, art, science, but math destroyed my self-esteem. Please do your best to let her know that she has talents, and that not everyone is meant to be fantastic at everything, and we all have some things we must find our little workarounds for. Good luck and best wishes.
@@h.t.ellismarschand4391 Thank you for your encouraging and kind words. Her dyscalculia test is in 9 days. Then we will find out more and will be offered the support she needs. By the way she has started to learn play the guitar - I have had mine for 25 years now. Will surprise her with a kids guitar tonight.
Supporting her in her weak areas is important, but making her own choices regarding her talents come true even more so.
Regards from the North Sea
hello! thanks for posting this!!! my life was destined to be full of unwarranted shame. i am almost 70 now and i was humiliated all my life because i could not do math. in high school i was treated so badly and no one did a thing back then. i was labeled "stupid" and i could not get into college. i found work in life easily but was never paid beyond minimum wage. i know there are people living with this as i did. to those who might see this some day please thank this young woman for posting this message! peace and love to you all!
I can definitely relate to what you are saying Josie. I was bullied growing up because I suffered with learning difficulties similar to what you speak about here in the video. I also suffered with aspects of dyscalculia. I tend to stay away from maths where I can but it is not possible as you say as we are surrounded by numbers in today's day and age so I have to engage with numerical processing sometimes especially with my job. Despite trying really hard with maths at school I only managed a D grade in GCSE. Also I too had a problem with my left and right and understanding the 24 hour clock. Luckily after I turned 16 or 17 this got easier for me and it sort of 'clicked'. I also had, and continue to have problems with physical coordination. I always seem to have to work much harder than other people to get to the same level or result they have in learning something either an academic subject or a sport for example. I don't know if this is the same for you.
Have you tried or heard of Neurofeedback? I did this 7 years ago and it really helped me a lot. I did a two week intensive in Bristol. This really helped me to spend two weeks doing this non-invasive brainwave stimulation. My symptoms are still there but are more manageable now. Maybe you could look into doing this as they do a QEEG to see what parts of your brain are understimulated and which parts are overstimulated. Then they design protocols which will re-balance and optimise the brain to work better. It may be worth you looking into.
But yes rest assured you are not alone. :)
Im 20 and Im still in high school I’ve passed mostly every class or credit except math. When numbers and letter are combined like algebra for say , I cannot understand anything. I’ve been to multiple doctors but they just say I have adhd. It’s really hard to complete or even read full paragraphs with numbers in them (hence math problems). But thank you for addressing a struggle people have with dyscalculia. For many years I thought I was very dumb and that even people younger than me can alreagy do stuff like graphs and high school math when I can’t comprehend
Ha ha that bit about tipping too much is so relatable, I suppose there are worse things to be known as than a generous tipper, it's one of those things that if you don't laugh about it you'll cry about so might as well laugh. Wish this learning disablity was more well known though, especially since in the US testing as an adult is an out of pocket expense usually in the thousands of dollars, and I'd like to go back to university; hopefully with some math help.
Thank you for sharing ✌️❤️🙏👍 from Northern Michigan 🇺🇸
so happy to know I'm not alone! thank you for this video! have had this for years and never knew the name
My daughter is 25 years old, has a first class music degree and a string of GCSEs including B grade maths. HOWEVER, she seems to have no idea about simple fractions, percentages, ratios, estimating, scaling etc and certainly has absolutely no 'feel' for numbers. She relied on a great memory for passing exams and relies on a calculator for routine +, - x, /. Trouble is, she can be a factor of 100 out, and not realise the result is IMPOSSIBLE! I wonder if she has a low-level dyscalculia? If so, what can I do to help her?
Is there any aspect of math you have noticed her do best at? Have you tried visual arrangements of a certain number of identical objects, or words instead of numeric symbols? Five and seven are twelve, six by seven are forty-two, etc.
Harmonic sound frequencies and even quadratic residues are important in music theory.
This is "J". And I have dydcalculia. I was shamed as a child by teachers, parents, and classmates alike. It was embarrassing, hurtful, and isolating. Going to school in the 70's/80's, teachers/ people did not know about this learning disability, as research was just getting underway. They knew somewhat about dyslexia, but not dydcalculia, as it is actually more rare, and it is genetically inherited and passed on through the family. And your right...you do NOT grow out of it! Struggled with school all my life and college due to this disability, and automatically knew that jobs involving numbers was out of the question for me. You have to find what your good at, and focus on that.
Um I have a bit of a question it’s that math is hard for me but I can read a clock but I still don’t know my left and right and struggle with name a wee bit
Not everyone with dyscalculia struggle to read the numbers, but rather simply struggle to understand their meaning, how to calculate with them as you may struggle with understanding the value of the number, or have a hard time processing the information :)
😊 thank you
Same It takes me a horrendously long time to remember names, can't spell to save my life, left and right get mixed up all the time, I can read a clock , it just takes me longer, cant do it at a glance. i also remember it taking me way longer than normal to read one in school and my parents made me a paper clock to practice with. The practice helped alot! Everything is a sliding scale.
I have dyscalculia but have trouble with things such as subtraction and times tables also quick addition and I can read a clock as well so it is kind of different for everyone
try dancing lessons to reinforce left and right, worked for me
It's hard for teachers too because I as a teacher understand that some of my students in class may be dyscalculic - but no one has ever told me how to approach them. I try to help them as much as I can but at the end of the day they forget what we talked about simply because that's how brain works!
P.S. Please comment if you know any society of maths teachers that teach dyscalculic students at university level.
Welp I'm I'm in 8th grade I can't add subtract multiple or divide most of the time I have to cheat on my math test to atleast have a decent grade in my math class
you are only cheating yourself
Same too before i cheat sometimes and my freinds gave me answer and sometimes even im slowy counting numbers and remembering i tried to push my self and answer it and the most embarassing thing was we have a math group and im only that have no other group with others answering with all of my mind ... and they cant help me and get attention of me they laughed at me
is it possible for someone to have this and be okay with some things? i’m 95% sure i have dyscalculia but i have a really good sense of direction, however most of the other symptoms are accurate for me?
I need to follow more of this, I never felt more understood
The fact my mom had to talk to the math teacher TWICE years ago because I have dyscalculia and she didn't care and still treated me like shit. I worked my ass off to get a 5. Sometimes people make fun of me because I confuse the hours in the clock.
I'm very sure that I do have dyscalculia. I keep a calculator in my bag in case I need it, but I'm so ashamed I haven't even pulled it out yet to help calculate prices when I'm shopping...even if it would be a big help. This whole time I thought I was bad at math and had memory problems, but the videos about dyscalculia I've been researching so far all point to one key thing making me sure within myself that I am dyscalculic (if that's the right word).
That anything to do with math and/or numbers is anxiety/fear inducing. For me, for MY WHOLE LIFE it has been! And people just don't understand that doing a simple algebra problem strikes crippling fear and anxiety in me! It's not just algebra though, it's fractions, percents, decimals, money. Things of that nature, I also have a hard time with measurements. Math in general is just torture in me.
Right now I'm trying to get my GED/HiSET so I can graduate. I passed everything with college levels, except for math! I failed and I failed *badly* I retook it and failed again a month later!
This led to a downspiral into a depressive state, two emotional breakdowns and heart thumping anxiety whenever I face anything to do with math.
Not to mention that the HiSET program and math testing absolutely sucks and is *completely* unfair. But that's a story for another day.
I got dignost with dyscalculia last month and honetly it was a releif that I had it because my teacher was not nice about me falling behind in class, and only my mom and my family know i cant read a clock im in 5th grade but i dont think ill ever beable to read a clock
thank you so much for this video, I only learned how to read a clock at age 11 and could never grasp how the numerical symbols could represent amounts (as weird as that sounds). Its a relief to know their are others whos brain functions similar to mine when it comes to computing and numerals
I hve dyslexia and dyscalcula and a processing issue and i am trying to get a asd diagnosis and i was diagnosed Last year(2019)and im 13 so im glad i got the diagnosis when i did as we are starting gcse work and i feel like im drowning
(don't have money for a disabilities test and the college won't pay for it.) I have dyscalculia. (I was tested as a child but the colleges want something more current now that I'm an adult) I can't do addition. Multiplication.... I took a 098 math class that was variable credit so I could do two credits for two quarters and the last credit the last quarter. My disability effects studying and memory retention, as well as directional awareness, sense of time (homework takes forever), and overall testing ability. I have to take a 107 math class (math in society) this next quarter. I can't get my Transfer AA without it. Then I want to go to a four-year and get a Communications degree specializing in Publishing and Editing. I love Engilish and am an English tutor at my College, but if some mentions numbers of any kind my brain seems to flat-line.
I got 4 and 7 but I also read groups of number backwards or in the wrong sequence
I Don’t think my dyscalculia is as severe as some people but I have gotten turned around in the town I’ve lived in for 30 years.
I never knew the name of my learning disability but I was diagnosed with “learning disability” when I was in third grade. All I was told was I had a processing disorder that affected my ability to learn maths
To this day, I have to count with my hands and multiply with calculators.
I kept having to relearn the same material over and over. It’s like it just disappeared
And I have to drive the same route constantly or else I’ll forget it.
Places I’ve been to my whole life, but not everyday. I’ll feel lost going there or get lost.
Like my sister or aunts house.
And organization causes me a lot of stress to the point of wanting to cry.
It’s nice to know it has a name
Was diagnosed while in kindergarden due to my mother finding me “weird” But no one in the family believed her.
Though i did get a social worker. Who came by 1-2 times a week. Frustrated when even after 8 months i still didn’t recall her face or name.
Also autism . Bc. I never did things her way. Lol. Those were only caught roughly after i was 10 yrs. Though now 25 still can’t tell apart my cousins who are twins and always messes up their names.
Many who i encountered AFTER moving school AFTER being diagnosed. Understood and was more patient. Well only bc the “rehab” i lived at had other kids with issues as well. Though it also did annoy the others with the fact i forgot who they was within a hour. While they could do math and history for more advanced age. I was still stuck at 3rd grade.
They however were jealous with how well written and artistic i was. As if i was Leonardo da Vinci..
Franckly haven’t touched a both revovling numbers. Since i graduated the “rehab” at 18.
Only kept one contact from that place to this day. Because we sat next to each other. And teachers though i was the best choice due to her anger issue and passion for insult. And i wasn’t affected whatsoever. Due to years of bullying from both teachers and classmates from my previous school. And bc she is the only one Whose face and name i recalled within a week and still sticks even though we haven’t seen each other for 2 yrs.
Though in the end my family was a tad ashamed when they had to chew the bad apple and my mom overjoyed she was right all along.
As she was the one who pushed the goverment and called out doctors. While the rest just sat and watched.
AND prevented my grandfather from sending me to military school due to stupidity and bad language.
If she didn’t i wouldn’t be here much less had known the issues i would have had.
Forever grateful to my mother and the social worker who spended years helping me out
Im currently trying to get this diagnosed. I have several learning difficulties but my nhs clinic are just refusing to even screen me becsuse im 42 although i got diagnosed at 42 with combined adhd but had to go private and its cost thousands.
You cant get an official diagnosis in many areas because then they would have to help you so they refuse diagnostic testing.
Im 42 and still struggle to tell time or judge how long things take in ny day. I have zero spatial awareness too so its actually getting in the way if my life so mych
Loved this video, thank you
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I remember being terrified to go to the chalkboard in front of class in grade school during math....I never was able to figure out how to solve the problems...I remember being kept after class and after an hour not being able to do the math problems I was given...that teacher looked so angry and told me to just leave...no teacher ever tried to find out what was wrong...I guess they thought I was being lazy or stubborn. I was good in all other subjects...but I was terrible with math. None of them ever caught that. Even now I read that only 8% of all new teachers even know what dyscalculia is.
You are a doll~ love your accent!
I have very mild form of it . I’ve been diagnosed with it in early childhood. I am very adjusted to life style that people without this disability live. School was horrible to me. I was badly bullied at home and at school because of my disability. I learned not to trust people and I learned adapt as much as I could and hide my disability from others because years of being bullied told me to not to trust anybody. Only 3%-7% of people have this kind of disability.
I finished normal schools without any relief from for people with disability. It was a living hell but I learned how to do all on my own and not needing any help from anyone no matter what. I just grab challenges and bit the living shit out of them 😂😂🎉
my sister is a dyscalculia, she can't read clock and she was bullied by her friends because she couldn't do math
My parents made me a paper clock to practice/study with, a clock with access to move the hands. The practice really helped! It took me so long to read a clock, im still slow to read the time though i can do it now :)
I could have recorded this word for word.
have been struggling with maths ever since I first learned about what it was and I was never sure if it was because I was barely taught it in school or if it was something else. I never could think about numbers without it rapidly changing, I couldn't visualize math problems in my head, I couldn't see math equations in my head, I had to use my fingers to count. I was in the special math learning classes and everytime I learnt something I immediatly forgot it. I never was really taught timetables but I tried to learn them and I couldn't remember any of them, I got confused with time, got confused with money, got confused with dates, and got confused with division and subtraction. I am still trying to get better at maths now and nothings working, a lot of people keep tellign me dyscalculia isn't real and that I'm just lazy and I just wish they could see my mind..
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The good thing is those people are now passed away ..I look after my disabled brother we live together ..and look in on my disabled sister too ..she is in her late 50's and so is my bro-
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My nana told me I had number dyslexia when I was 12, it sucks..yes, but I've learned to live with it and when I feel upset about math, not being able to read clocks and all, I just remember it's not my fault and that I can always ask for help :)
Now I know why I spent most of my school life thinking I was the biggest loser at math.
I have dyscalculia and i am proud of it and i love myself that way
Tanks for this video
I have dyscalculia 😖🙂😅😝 and I love this and it’s okay to be different
😭🤟🏻😝💛🤗🙃😆😖😅❤️ I love me
Less then a minute into this video and I'm getting emotional. This is what I have. Thank you!
I'm 21 and I'm seriously considering if I have dyscalculia. I haven't been tested or diagnosed, and literally no one ever questioned it. But I am terrible at math, I've never learned to read the clock, I struggle a lot with basic math when calculating money or time. Everyone always told me how easy the 9 times table is, but I ALWAYS struggled with it and never learned it or any other. When I was a kid in school, I was sent to a different kind of math lesson with 1 other kid, yet no one ever questioned if I might have dyscalculia. I also have really bad sense of direction, even though I've lived here my whole life😂 Dyscalculia with explain a lot tbh.
I’ve always struggled with reading numbers in an order and processing them (along with all of the other listed symptoms) but I was decent at maths in school. However since leaving school a few years ago I’ve become basically mathematically illiterate. I assume it’s just because I’m not testing my abilities each day but is it actually dyscalcula and just getting worse?
I diagnosed with dyscalculia and I am engineer I have problem with adding numbers but I don't have problem to solve equations when the solution need to add numbers I use my calculator I do so much practice to improve my skills and when I was child I hated math because in the early classes numbers is so important but then numbers is a small part of a solution
My wife is a senior level administrative assistant. Thank god, because I really can't keep track of bills and deposits and payments. I can't read a spread sheet. Literally; like you with the analog clock. I can read an analog clock, but a spread sheet looks like you said - just a mess of lines and numbers that barely make sense beyond the most basic level. I get lost. I hate them, I become so frustrated because I constantly lose my place.
at this point i have just given up in maths...
Omg. I’ve always known I have it since third grade, but no one ever told me what it meant or what it entailed. 😭it explains so much. I feel ashamed and embarrassed about it.
So I also have dyscalculia and so I really suck at math and i talk to my friends about and i always tell them how hard mathematics is for me and so there’s this one friend(she has dyslexia and she knows about my dyscalculia)and she always that I should just learn and stuff like that...but I’m like u know hard it is to have a learning disability and u that learning just can’t fix it at all.
Is there still a part of math you're best at?
@@coopergates9680 i’m actually pretty good at geometry
@@oliviasander4588 and you enjoy hyperbolic geometry? I learned about that way too late, many years after I went crazy building tons of polyhedra. Lol
i've been questioning if i have had dyscalculia or not i use my fingers to count i can't do like 6 plus 8 or something in my head have to use my fingers i don't know quarters like 1 4 a quarter i can't divide and multiplying is difficult dont understand percents at all and etc but i do know my left and right and i can read a clock but it takes a bit idk if im just stupid but teachers have mentioned it a lot and how im behind to my mom im just very confused so i don't know if anyone can help me out :/ also i mess up subtraction a lot and im heading to 8th grade ashamed ive always been behind
i use my fingers too to count! oh and especially 8*6 for some reason lol i rmb sitting in a math exam and see if other people were using their fingers just like me but there werent any which i found odd..
i also dont know how quarters work lmaooo i just rlly dont get how it works at all!
I do too omg finally somone else that has it!
Also: * No sense of time or measurements. Have zero ability to guess the length, depth or distance of something.
* Clocks are impossible to interpret. You can't gauge the difference between 5 mins and 15 mins for example.
* Numbers 'jump' when you see them. 123 can look like 312.
* Can't follow games where you must keep score.
* Difficulty following information that is numbered or in a specific sequence.
* Bad memory for information.
* Difficulty keeping abstract information in your head. You must write every small detail down or you'll immediately forget.
* Still count on fingers.
* Difficulty following simple verbal instructions that involve 2 or more steps.
* Difficulty reading timetables or anything with numbers.
* Difficulty with basic math. May need time to add 2+3 for example.
* Extreme high anxiety when faced with numbers.
Remember folks, being bad at math in school doesn't mean you're dyscalculiac. This is a learning disorder, much like dyslexia. Every day we're learning more but it goes deeper than just numbers. It's about how the brain receives and interprets abstract information.
I have this as Well it is hard, and I do not get math what so ever but I get help
Я сам определил что у меня дискалькулия в 18 лет. Ещё в первом классе я помню свою первую сложность. Все мне всегда помогали по математике. ( Я никогда не изучал физику, полную химию и геометрию из за жизни в другой стране.) Я заметил что никто практически не знает о дискалькулии; все думают что тебе надо просто "усерднее трудиться." Я изучал дроби в 5, 6, 8, 9,10 и 11 классах ( Россия и две другие страны) и ДО СИХ ПОР бы не здал. В детстве, бывшая жена моего дяди, даже плакала из за того что я не хотел думать во время математики. Однажды я ходил на занятия по математике к частному лицу, и все равно не мог получить хорошую отценку. Хотя был момент когда мы сидели у знакомого, и я умножил какой то десяток на какой то иной, и он зашел в калькулятор, и посмотрев на меня, сказал: " машина." ( Он не знал о моих сложностях.) Очень редкий момент. Какже были моменты когда у меня были отценки ипо 60 и по 70 + процентов. Моя мама логепед, со мной работал психолог, было множество учителей и никто её у меня не выявил. Сколько я всего понаслушивался... Меня таже переучили из левши в правшу лет 20 назад, но я не думаю что это может быть с этим связано. Я таже заметил в себе таланты исскуства. Я задал этот вопрос в Quora несколько лет назад, и был человек который тоже был согласен со мной о том, что люди с дискалькулией имеют артистичекие способности. Левое полушарие против правого. Если мне сейчас научиться писать левой рукой, то это лишь усилит правое полушарие, а не левое. Голодание и воздержание- это очень мощная микструра. ( Извините что использую такой язык, но это очень редкий опыт.) Именно когда я был на воздержании, я смог высчитать то число о котором говорил ранее. У женщин гораздо проще; ваш огранизм гораздо более защищен от разных потерь микроэлементов. Голодание сложнее сравнить, ведь оно не для всех и может даже дать вам результаты во много раз быстрее воздержания, поменять вас как личность, дать вам некоторую регинирацию , и т.д. У меня всегда была хорошая память на запоминания дат и чисел в прошлом, но я уже во забыл таблицу умножения на процентов 30.
Numbers are so disturbing to me, even if I hear them being said out loud in a sentence for whatever reason, my brain totally scrambles and I feel sick. I hate bingo callers.
I just took two online quizzes for self diagnosis of dyscalculia and they have confirmed it in me. It also doesn’t help that I have autism and complex PTSD on top
I’m almost 30 and I’m just finding this out
Hi just came across this, a lot of it sounds like me, though I can tell the time, the rest is a nightmare, I have always struggled with maths, when I was at school I always sudied but got nowhere as I couldn't understand, nowadays in my job i struggle to read the various measuring guages I have to use and it's affecting my work, wish I knew who I could turn to for help. sadly im in my late forties so a bit late.
I wish I knew about this in highschool,I'm certain that it's the reason I couldn't graduate with a diploma,I did pretty decent in my classes especially my science classes but when I came to math I just couldn't understand it.
I felt really unsure about having this or not. because I read that I should not be able to do the simplest of maths problems (like 1+2 or 3×5) - which I can do; and that numbers should be perceived by dyscalculic people as 'spaghetti that floats off the page' and I do not have that. everything else mentioned in this video? yes, absolutely. I have trouble remembering people's names for a long time, street names (even ones I frequent often), remembering important dates like birthdays and name days (a thing in Hungary). I have trouble reading the clock, directions confuse me and I have no sense of time. I'm thirty now, and I so wish I had learned about this in elementary school and not a few years ago... I still feel stupid and I still often question if I really do have dyscalculia or if I'm just plain dumb...
Yep. In grade school, I ended up spending math class with the principal instead.She would try to help when she could, but it wasn't till 3rd year of college with science and German class. Ouch! But once diagnosed, I went on to get a Masters Degree. Not bad for someone who just thought she was a potato head in math. (In English and reading, I was always grades ahead of the others.
I feel like I might have this I couldnt read a clock till I was 17 and had to at a shop I worked at . It was difficult to learn and I stuffed up my break times .
I fuck up left and rights all the time.
I have gotten better at simple math from working . But I now have the adding ability of a 10 year old at 26 through lots of effort . Was always top in class for everything except math. Was pulled aside and tested during high school because my teacher just didnt understand why I wasnt getting it .
Could I still have it even tho I have improved a little with age ?
You could for sure! :)
I have been diagnosed just today with dyscalculia and i have known for a while but had to pay 300 pounds just for a diagnosis honestly not great
About the not being able to read a clock, in 8th grade and below i used to not be able to read a clock, even though everybody else could. and i wass just always so confused on how ppl could read clocks and i couldnt.
Im 38 years old, was diagnosed with dyscalculia when i was in elementer school. But i they did not help me, well i was taken out of class, but in the 90's i was considered dumb by teachers, so they just gave up on me. It is a struggle to have dyscalculia. Becouse you need math in a lot of jobs.
I think I may have discalculia but maybe not as severe because I don't struggle much with clocks or directions but I cannot for the life of me do math in my head, I struggle to remember number sequences so much!! It took me a year to remember my own phone number. I mix up numbers all the time. I missed a meeting once that was from 9am to 11am because I thought it started at 11am. I went to a doctor's appointment a few days early because I misread the date despite checking the email like 7 times ! (It was on a 29 no a 26)
how is the condition now dear? :)
I am 18 and only learned the months in order this year. Haha still only know my time's tables up to 7 and it took me a year longer than my peers to understand clocks. I felt so dumb but clocks were just so confusing me haha. I was bad at maths until I had a calculator. Mabey i should look into this.
Does anyone know how to tell your parents that you think you have this and you want to be tested I have ADHD and I'm a high schooler and I still can't do math like 67-43 it takes me way longer than normal kids. I've always struggled with math it's like a foreign language to me. I don't know how to mention it to my parents though.
I always forget my ways .l always try to remember my ways but forget always😴 . Why🥺?Is it a great problem?ls it the symptoms of dyslexia?Please answer my question 😴🥺.
Plz tell me how you get a diagnosis, I’m 19 years old, I was tested in secondary school but they tested me for dyslexia instead of dyscalculia??? It’s affected my daily life and education from as long as I can remember, the teachers would shout at me and punish me for not being as mathematically able as the other kids, for getting confused, forcing me to not use my fingers when counting or drawing dots just to keep track of how many numbers I was counting, it’s frustrating that people don’t understand and assume I’m stupid when I can’t do simple addition, if anything I just want a sheet of paper to prove that I struggle with this and I’m not making it up, because apparently some won’t believe your own perspective, or think I can “learn my way out of it” or that I’m “not trying hard enough”
When you came to them and asked them to test you, how did you describe the symptoms?
There are people who read with Braille and use sign language. It's absurd to try to tell you how to solve problems if you have a reasonable method that yields the right answer. How about an abacus?
I was never diagnosed but I think I might have it (not self diagnosing). If I don’t then my past teachers might have just destroyed my self esteem enough to make me think I do.
Me too, In fifth grade a friend taught me how to recognize my left and right, which is a symptom I guess. For example I work at a register and today two incidents happened. I was given three 20s and a 50 and didn’t know it was 110. I tried to do it, I count in twos my 20s, so I was just so embarrassed. Also a woman was going to get 6.94 as their change, I was giving it bu then she said, wait I have 10 cents. And it didn’t click to give her a dollar, instead of the 94 cents, and I freaked and gave her 6 cents back. As a result my register was over one dollar
*DMV test instructor with a dyscalculia person behind the wheel*
Imagine the possibilities...
I don't know if I am diagnosed with dycalculia.
1, I have a fear in doing mental maths
2,Still struggling to calculate the distance and speed
3,I use calculator to count money
Have this. Didn’t know it had a name. I learned to hide it.