This is a thing?! Huh. For as long as I can remember, this has been me. I remember when I was 6, sitting in a class-room with a Math test before me. If I got

This is a thing?! Huh. For as long as I can remember, this has been me. I remember when I was 6, sitting in a class-room with a Math test before me. If I got something wrong, I'd get severely yelled at however when people yelled at me for doing something wrong (and I didn't know what I was doing wrong) I'd get utterly confused, and because I'm deaf I'd get very anxious too. So I wasn't hearing the teacher right, and therefore applying what I heard wrong to the paper (thus getting it wrong, leading to me getting screamed at). It eventually got so bad that year, I started to actually forget how to even think in numbers. When I was given a question like "5 + 5" I kept reading it like "five + five". From there I went on to completely fail at Math in every possible way. However, I turned into a programmer somewhere along the way which is a bit weird! :D Does anyone else wonder if this anxiety stuff ties into Dyscalculia? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia)