This is also how I see numbers. Like 7 basically being an 8 that has a notch with room for one.. At the same time, 8 is sometimes a 10 with a notch with room f

This is also how I see numbers. Like 7 basically being an 8 that has a notch with room for one.. At the same time, 8 is sometimes a 10 with a notch with room for 2.. Question: Did you find math easy from the beginning of school? I had immense trouble, it just didn't make sense no matter how long I looked at the shapes.. What logic was there behind the 6 shape and the 1 shape together makes the 7 shape.. Do you see negative numberse as different from positive ones, or do you just see them as positive numbers that have to be subtracted? Depending on the context, they're just a subtraction, other times I see them as white and black dots, and when there is equilibrium it is a grey plane of 0, and when add some to the plane, that number of that sign will be visible, for example, you have 0 + 3 = 3 white ones, then you add two black ones ( 0 + 3 + (-2) ) = 1 and the two black ones merge with the white ones and become grey and then you see only the one white one that 's left.. It goes that if you then add two more black ones, ( 0 + 3 + (-2) + (-2) ) = -1 one of the black ones merge with the remaining white one, and there is one black one left on the plane. I eventually got the basics.. these days, I still prefer using letters instead of the actual numbers, and deal with the abstract instead of the concrete and just let the computer do the calculation if a concrete value is needed.