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Wish I'd know about this before!
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| EmmaS15 |
Posted on January 05 2010 11:14 PM
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I wish I had known about my dyscalculia before! A lot of times when I thought I was dumb I now realize it was just dyscalculia. Like when I was flunking math in grade 6 and my teacher told me I just wasn't trying hard enough and needed to get organized.  Anyone else have similar experiences? |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on January 05 2010 11:37 PM
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Yes, before I took Elementary Algebra (and failed it three times) I'd taken Pre-Algebra and gotten an A in it. But, in spite of doing well at that (it's just arithmetic) the teacher of that course would continually ask me, "How's it going?" I'd 'fall for it' and say that it 'wasn't easy'. Then, she (with her PhD behind her name) would tell me that I needed to set my "priorities". This was always said as a 'put down'. I mean, I was getting A's, so she could have said something like, "But you're doing fine."
During my next three semesters of failing Elementary Algebra, every time I'd run into that teacher, I'd greet her cheerily, "Hello, Ms. 'teacher'. How are you?" And she'd ask, "How's it going?" And I'd say, "Not too well." (being as I was failing Elementary Algebra). And she would get an incongruous smile, and say, "You need to learn to set priorities." with a self-satisified nod. This has happened, probably three-out-of-three times that I've seen this teacher in the last year and a half. You know? I've finally decided that Charlie Brown of Peanuts must be dyscalculic. Just like he keeps kicking the ball and Lucy keeps pulling it out of the way,... that's exactly the way it's been with me constantly 'falling for it' when that teacher asks me, "How's it going?" - jus'
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| Xorthon |
Posted on January 06 2010 12:11 AM
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welcome emma!!!! my old elementary school teacher was always telling me to get organized, stop daydreaming, go faster, etc. luckily i homeschool now, which is the second best thing that ever happened to me. anyway, teeco should come along any day now and maybe tell you her horrible experience.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. - Confucius
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| EmmaS15 |
Posted on January 06 2010 01:33 AM
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Great to hear I'm not alone.  I also remember having serous trouble memorizing verbs for French tests, and my bitch French teacher came up to me and said: "Do you just not care? I don't know what I'm going to do with you! I hear your flunking math too...do you even try?".
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| Nissa |
Posted on January 06 2010 05:35 AM
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Hi Emma,
I had a hard time learning French too. It wasn't as bad a math, but my short term memory isn't what is should be, which makes it hard to memorize things. Here's one of my math stories: One day when I was in grade school, there was a partial solar eclipse. The teacher was going to let everyone go outside to see it by making a hole in a paper plate and looking at the "picture" of the sun on the ground. I was so excited! I had never seen an eclipse before, and the teacher told us that they didn't happen very often. I was really looking forward to it. There was just one catch- we had to finish our math assignment before the teacher would let us go out. I missed the eclipse  I thought about making up answers, but that seemed wrong- I've always been a bit of a perfectionist, and I wanted to do the assignment the right way. Anyway, I was pretty upset.
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on January 06 2010 01:20 PM
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Hi Emma! I was finally diagnosed in college after struggling and feeling the way you described, for a long time. I had speech and language issues as a kid in the lower school grades and was in Special Ed for that but the LD was never caught. |
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| DorkyNerky |
Posted on February 05 2010 04:13 AM
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Emma- So sorry to hear about how horribly your teacher treated you. I couldn't conjugate Latin verbs or understand the grammer to save my life. What does " needing to get organized" even mean?
The way I see it - A PhD is only 3 letters of the alphabet attached to your name showing you are academically talented in perhaps a certain subject. It doesn't judge your academic abilities as a whole or what kind of person you are.
So I find it inconsiderate and pompous when PhD earning people esp. teachers say students are not " trying hard enough or think they are incompetent " just because of the 3 LETTERS!
I dream of a better tomorrow...
Where chicken can cross raods and not have their motives questioned. |
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