r/dyscalculia

I’m 23 and for my whole life, I have felt like a idiot or a dumbass when it comes to anything maths. I have always insulted myself and have even cried sometimes just because I could never understand basic mathematics. In school I would try my best to hide from it, if anyone asked me a question I would try change the conversation…the anxiety it gave me was actually insane. We’re talking about f*cking numbers here.

Every other subject I got top grades, maths on the other hand…I failed. I know you reading this probably understands my pain, it hurt a lot but I am so glad I have found this community and I’m so happy that I’m not the only one that has been through this.

I hope dyscalculia is studied more and I hope more people like us know that they are not alone

She is in the 9th grade. She thinks that she has dyscalculia. If we go to the doctor and they diagnose her with dyscalculia, will there be a problem for her college applications and job search in the future?

I have a sibling a year older than me, F18. She has a history of failing math, despite genuine efforts and dedication to doing well. Her teachers had brought forward the possibility of her having dyscalculia, but my parents refused to go forward with an assessment out of fear of it affecting her future job and university applications (which isn’t true at all) but she didn’t want to do the assessment and screening either.

I’ve always tried to help, but she often doesn’t seem receptive of tutoring. I understand and I’m not trying to push. She has tried to pass GCSE maths multiple times and is soon to apply for university. She has asked for my help, and I would really like to know any information I should take into consideration and how I could make the study process easier for her. I have mentioned the idea of getting access arrangements. I mentioned how it has helped me significantly and I think it would help her too, but she doesn’t seem interested.

Never diagnosed but always struggled with math. It takes a lot of effort to work with numbers and I need to be well enough to do it. Is it just math anxiety? I’m very sad because I have the scientific thinking that has got me very far but now that I need to do advanced modelling I can’t figure out the basic steps and am very very slow. Looking for some support… how am I supposed to accept that I will not be able to do fast science which is so weirdly important these days? I still want to learn how to implement my science because I am realising I can’t transplant my brain… there are a lot of people great at math but couldn’t really get what I want to do by intuition. Has anyone experienced this? I feel so stupid right now.

Edit: I am very used to compensating for my difficulty in math and equations by recognising patterns. Just don’t know if I should console myself by accepting that I’m bad at math or it taxes me too much… have had a few mental breakdowns and not sure if I should just call it a day professionally. Maybe this is it? As far as I can go?

Rich dyscalculics how did you do it ?? Are there rich dyscalculics in today's world ?? People say if you are not good at maths you can't go far in life and this hunts because I am starting college 😭😭

I just hate this out of body experience of not knowing what time it really is, gonna try and go back to sleep. Lemme know if this happens to anyone else

Should I go for economics at university level I had commerce without maths ( indian btw ) barely passed stats for eco aced macro BST and Barely passed accounts 😭 there unis offering economics on merit baises I love economics but hate maths helppp

How are you surviving in a country that reveres math are you making good money did you take commerce or humanity's 😭😭

I struggle with money counting...and math at all when it comes to double digits I struggled a thousand , I just need to feel like I'm not the only one who struggles this much, I graduated highschool but I felt the whole time like everyone who tried to help me with that class felt more like a hand holding my head down underwater as I drowned in the feelings of being too useless stupid and depressed, my mother swears to got I'm just acting like an [r-word] so no help there

Does ANYONE like this game? I am sure nobody here does. I remember playing it as a kid and it was so stressful and embarrassing. Most games were/are. Once rules are explained, I realize I have absolutely no interest in playing, it won't be enjoyable.

Was it math-related? Non-math related? I’m planning on going back to school and I’m trying to figure out what career to pick.

so like the title says, I feel like i struggle abnormally with counting repetitive things. I always have to do a triple take because i think people have 6 fingers or toes when they only have 5. If a bunch of the same small thing (like candy or smthn idk) are scattered or even lined up on a table, I can’t come close to an accurate count without pointing at each one as I count. I can’t count numbers (especially zeroes) in a row without covering them as I go. it’s kinda weirding me out with how bad it is and I feel like this issue has been there since I was a kid. does anyone know what it could be? feel free to ask me any questions that could help :(((

note: I don’t think I have dyscalculia? But maybe I’m wrong, Reddit is strongly recommending I post this here so I’m giving it a shot

Is their a way of getting a dyscalculia assessment? A while back I secretly found a letter from school from like elementary school how I needed intensive schooling and and intervention for math because I couldn’t do mental math and wasn’t able to subtract or add at a young age or something. And it explains a lot of things like I still use my fingers to count, either have to write a problem down or use a calculator, even for single digits I can still be confused on the answer, or like I had a fear of being a cashier for a while because I couldn’t give the right change. Like the only reason I’m okay with it now is cause the machine tells me other wise sll that mental math just makes no sense. Like either I would confuse the math or I would be confused on what coin means what like I would always confused nickels and quarters. Either way I hope I don’t so dumb. But some help would be appreciated. I def have more reasons as to why I suspect but this post is already too long lmao

Was wondering if coding also falls under dyscalculia. I'm talking Javascript/CSS/etc. I've had trouble with it for as long as I can remember. I've run a Neocities site for almost a decade and every page's code is broken and doesn't function as it should. Despite reading tons of articles, watching 30+ hour guides, using WSS Schools, and lots of other coding help guides, I still haven't gotten the hang of it.

It just makes zero sense to me. I asked on a coding forum how other people learned and almost every comment was "it just clicked/I fiddled with it and found it was fun and relaxing". Coding has brought me to tears endless times. When you look at code it does resemble math and so I was wondering if coding could also fall under the dyscalculia umbrella. The repeated attempts to learn over the past decade and still being at square 1 reminds me of my struggles with math.

This popular retail worker content creator that makes skits about rude/stupid customers made a skit about a woman who couldn't tell the difference between two perfume sizes with different oz and was asking which one was bigger. she was painting her as a stupid customer. thousands of comments agreed she was another stupid customer and shared their similar stories.

it also reminds me of whenever I try to pay in cash I sometimes count it wrong and accidentally give a short amount but I think it's the correct amount. And instead of informing me immediately they blank stare at me for like 2 minutes while I stand there politely and patiently waiting for them to complete the transaction before they finally tell me I'm short. I wonder if they're thinking the same thing. I also one time incorrectly thought the cash back shorted me because I counted it wrong several times in a row. I'm sure I looked like a karen scammer without context.

I hate how I have to worry about being made into a skit to mock on tiktok.

I failed the shit out of calculus but we don’t need to talk about that

I'm glad to find this group. I see that I'm not the only one that has had lifelong issues with simple math. I have trouble with basic math in my head and it's caused me to do basic things way too slowly. In school I actually made it up to Calculus 111, but I went back to Calc 101 probably 4 times until I realized that engineering wasn't going to work. I could do the homework fine, and figure I could at least get a B grad on exams. Nope. I never had enough time to finish tests and usually failed. If they gave at least another 30 minutes I could have succeeded, but I usually ended up in a panic and hated when other students turned in their exams after 20 minutes.

I've been beating myself up all my life due to this "failure" and see that my stupid method of "counting dice or domino dots" isn't totally unusual.

In high school/early college, I worked in retail at at cash register. When I screwed up and the machine didn't tell me the change to give back, I would always lock up and grab a calculator or the customer would just tell me what I owed them back. Percentages? Forget it.

I'd fail a Presidential cognitive test where they ask to count backwards by 7 from 100.

I was in college back in the 1990s, but it still bothers me a lot ever since then. Interested to read other's stories here.

I had to drop out of high school the second I turned 18 because I was severely abused at school and nobody really cared. My school district actually initiated most of the abuse and traumatized me for life.

I can't pass a GED or even GED practice tests because of the math portion. I cannot do past a third grade level in math. I literally just can't. No amount of aggressive practicing makes me any more capable in math.

I tried to get my diploma at a credit recovery school (late diploma, not GED) by taking classes there. They only let you take one class at a time so I knew it was going to take months or years since I had about an entire years worth of credits to make up. (even before I dropped out I was truant)

But even in non math classes that I have no difficulties learning/processing in, I still had a very time and couldn't complete the work on my own without cheating because it was still just too much boring information I didn't care about to soak in my brain. I tried so many things to make studying more fun but nothing worked.

So I needed to go in person and get one on one help for pretty much every single worksheet or else I wasn't able to absorb the information in my brain complete it. I needed the information repeated back to me multiple times with a ton of clarifying questions for it to absorb enough to pass one 10 question quiz because it's too boring.

But, I have a sleep disorder and limited means of transportation, so I wasn't always able to make it to the school in person on time. So I've now tried that program and gotten dropped twice.