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Holy smokes, thank you, thank you, and thank you so much for posting this! I had no idea that this had a name called "Dyscalculia". I wonder if there is a way t
by barik 14y ago
Holy smokes, thank you, thank you, and thank you so much for posting this! I had no idea that this had a name called "Dyscalculia". I wonder if there is a way to medically verify if I actually have this condition. To this day, I cannot read an analog watch. I cannot do math in my hand, although I do perfectly fine on paper. For even simple calculations, like 23 + 45, I simply cannot keep both numbers in my head. It is truly a curse. I actually physically get dizzy when I'm asked to perform computations. When I was in high school, I still played games like "Number Munchers", asking myself.. "What is wrong with me?", despite the fact that I had successfully made it to calculus and maintained a very high GPA.
It is amazing then, that I somehow have managed to complete both an undergraduate and Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I compensated for my lack of numerical ability by heavily relating on calculators throughout my college education. In fact, one of the reasons I pursued computers in the first place is because I recognized that I could survive, and hence, fake it, by offloading such "trivial" computations to a machine.
Many standardized tests, such as the GRE, don't allow calculators unfortunately.