Recent and perhaps some not so recent events have left me pondering this and I am wondering if anyone on the boards has this or any experience with it.

I was never evaluated as a child for this , however there were other circumstances ( immersed into a school system where I had to learn a whole new language , hearing and visual impairments), I can see why it could have been not looked into at that time. Looking back its clear there were plenty of other fish to fry with me and that the teachers and my parents had done an excellent job bringing me up to snuff , I suspect a wide berth was given to some deficiencies.


OH dear , I could have spelled it dyscalculia .....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_...ticle672976.ece

ooops forgot to link to the above

I can do math... but I do not enjoy it. Only do it when I have to.


You would laugh at me if you saw the math problems I enter on my pocket calculator.... sums that most people could and would do in their heads. I just can't be bothered.



(Mrs. V, is your avatar that famous design from the cover of JOY DIVISION's album?)

yes it is the Joy Division cover, one of my favourites of all time


Here is the thing , I can do some math to a point ( not in my head and not as quickly as normal folk), in school I could science and rather well , to a point , I have very bad concept of time and I am an unco-ordinated klutz as well , also , in my old age this thing has manifested in some rather odd visual perceptions of number and things flipping around and trouble with numerical sequence.

so now I find this thing has a name , when in truth I had thought of myself as a dimwitted , directionally challenged klutz who was always late for everything

Just as an aside: Have you seen the movie CONTROL, about Ian Curtis? It is surprisingly a most interesting film, though I cannot claim to be a big Joy Division fan. The actor who played him, Sam Riley, I thought was an absolute doll.

That said, I was ga-ga about New Order, the group they metamorphosed into after Curtis' tragic death... and I went to see them perform live in 1984 at the Austin Music Hall. It was an amazing, electric, edgy show. The audience there was 50% of the show!!

I actually treated myself to a New Order double header two weeks ago whilst hubby was at work ( he does not care for post punk at all), the documentary and Control, now I must read the book that made it all happen , the whole thing from Mrs Curtis' POV. I especially found his reaction to the lady who died as a result of epilepsy moving , considering what he was about to go through himself.

While Ian was very bright and troubled I could see in the documentary that his bandmates where a very different breed of cat , having seen it , it just fits how New Order came to be the band that is it. Which I also adore by the way.

Well, I have no concept of time and am uncoordinated, so we have that in common. I've never been sterling at math, but I can do basic calculations. So it looks like I don't have dyscalculia. Darn. Would've been nice to have an excuse for being late all the time.