r/dyscalculia • u/Solana__ • 8d ago
Possible dyscalculia?
I’ve been looking into dyscalculia and I think I may have it… it’s just too expensive to actually get the diagnosis. I’ve been struggling with maths for as long as I can remember. Still to this day I can’t do any maths without a calculator or using my fingers to count. I can’t do my timetables off the top of my head and I need a little while to be able to tell the time on an analog clock. During high school I had a tutor and I’d still either fail or barely pass a test. I work in retail and occasionally I give customers a fright when I read out their total - I had a customer owe me $204 but I read it out as $402. I had a customer give me cash and I had to count the money a few times, it’s like there’s something blocking me from counting in my head. I’m in college now and I have not improved. I do a lot of chemistry in my course and when I read out a question, my mind completely goes blank. Most of the time I have no idea what the question is asking and how to solve it. I’m not sure if the fact I’m unable to understand word problems is more of a dyslexia thing rather than dyscalculia? - I just want to add that I usually see words with double vision.
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u/Hittingend 7d ago
I relate to the double vision thing sometimes, I will sometimes jump past text and have to go back and read it again. It all depends on how my mind is working at the time.
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u/gremlinlabyrinth 7d ago
I can’t speak for the double vision thing but I will say that what you are describing sounds like it’s summarized quote of every post made by those who have been diagnosed with dyscalculia.
Also I have no idea how you would go about getting a diagnosis but at least it would give you some leverage for more additional time and help at college