I also read something here by someone with dyscalculia. I have dyscalculia too, which is a learning disability in math. It also can affect my paragraphing, so if my posts are looking a lot like the solid blocks of ice that Progressive U warns are yawn city: next stop, you'll all know why. Dyscalculia is hard, because dyscalculics are generally so good at English and writing that our inability to do math confounds people and leaves us very frustrated. People often can't understand how math can be so difficult for us.
I'm not in school right now, but when I was, often my dyscalculia wasn't a big issue...until it was, and when it was, it was a huge one that made me think graduate school might be an absolute impossibility despite graduating with a high GPA (because I got substitutions for math.) There are still times when I feel it will be, mostly due to the GRE and the amount of bibliographies that will be required, another issue for me due to visual spatial weakness.
But I'm going to do it anyway, because I love academia and the classroom. And because there's no other way, really, for me to change the world in a consistently powerful way.
And because, as cliche as it sounds, I have dyscalculia. It doesn't have me.
Okay, done with the cliches. They aren't my style, which is probably obvious by now. So
stay tuned for more on learning disabilities, some stuff on mental illness, more on body image, and the random musings of my service dog in training.
Keepin' it fresh, guys. As always.
