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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madelf" data-source="post: 1878946" data-attributes="member: 15415">There is also a condition that can make math a bitch, called dyscalculia. It's just like Dyslexia, except that you switch numbers.I've never been diagnosed, but I suspect I have a slight touch of it (I nail most of the common symptoms, though it's not severe). I'm forever swapping digits in phone numbers & if I'm doing an important calculation (even at the level of simply adding a few numbers) I'll need to check it a couple times to make sure it keeps coming out the same. It really sucked back in the old days when I was doing architectural drawings without a computer to automatically generate the dimensioning. Sometimes I'd have to add up a single dimension string a half dozen times (or more) to get all the errors out.You can imagine what I went through in math classes. I never made it past geometry & I passed that only by the skin of my teeth. To this day I can't do even simple math in my head (like adding or subtracting double digits), it all has to be on paper.</blockquote>