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Does dyscalculia go down in your family?
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| Pixie |
Posted on April 08 2010 05:51 PM
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I have read on dyscalculia and it said it is genetic and usually the reason you have it is because others in you family have it.
I just wanted to see if it is commonly genetic.
I am dyscalculic but I have no family with it.
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| Laura |
Posted on April 08 2010 06:40 PM
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Hey Pixie,
I think my Dad has it but unsre as nor him or I have been diagnoisied. I do think my Dad is Dyslexic though so it could run in families????
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| Mohinga |
Posted on April 08 2010 07:25 PM
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My dad passed away nearly 20 years ago but I am trying to collect evidence that he may have been dyscalculic.
We have so many thing in common that it can't be a coincidence.
A few things my mum mentioned about her sister in law (my aunt) suggests that she could be dyscalculic as well.
None of them were ever diagnosed - when they were young they were just lazy and didn't try hard enough.
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| RottieWoman |
Posted on April 08 2010 08:39 PM
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possibly my mom and my aunt - her sister |
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| GaryR55 |
Posted on April 16 2010 05:31 AM
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Just me, in my family. My little brother and sister were whiz kids at math and my father was a civil engineer and very expert at higher math. Mom was good at it, too. So, I had no allies in the family and everyone thought I was "just lazy" or "not trying."
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| Kathy |
Posted on April 16 2010 06:43 AM
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Only when I wrote my book did my dad tell me he had number problems as did my mum just before she passed away.
In our family we go back three generations of inherited learning disabilities be we are also gifted in either music, art or drama.
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kathy
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| Patricia |
Posted on May 06 2010 01:59 AM
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My mom was perfect at everything; math, reading & writing, spelling & grammar, science, foreign languages (learned a whole semester of Latin in 6 weeks!) you name it! She was always in the top of her class. She never could grasp why I couldn't learn math. She would say..."We just went over that yesterday! You're just not applying yourself!" and "You're my child. You take after me, and I can do math."
When I told her about Dyscalculia, she said "You don't have a learning disability, you're very smart!" and "Don't tell that to anyone, they'll think you're retarded!"
A.) It's pretty typical for Dyscalculics to be "very smart."
B.) Her opinion of my being "very smart" was probably tainted by a mother's love for her child. I did okay in school, but did better when simply conversing casually about subjects. She saw a different me than the one who was passably able to function at school. |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on May 06 2010 02:34 AM
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My dad earned a degree in Mathematics so I know it didn't come from him, but my mom has some quirks that make me wonder about her. She has always been weak in math, and never took any math in college (she didn't need it for her degree). She doesn't make number errors like reversals, omitting numbers, etc. like I do, but she does have problems that I have with spatial orientation (directions, distinguishing left from right, etc.) She is also musically challenged, has never been able to read sheet music or play an instrument. She is, however, extremely talented in English and a fairly good painter. All of those things together lead me to think that she's probably dyscalculic, to a lesser degree than I am.
But of course she won't admit it, she doesn't think learning disabilities are real (despite having been a teacher for a decade, she still thinks LDs are an excuse to not apply yourself). She's starting to come around a little bit more now, though, which is nice.
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| Arwen Evenstar |
Posted on May 06 2010 07:06 AM
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I'd imagine so-my mom isn't good with math either, and neither are her two sisters (my aunts).
Their cousin (my second cousin) is dyslexic, so there's some sort of genetic quirk in our gene pool, haha. |
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| EarlyWarning |
Posted on May 06 2010 02:22 PM
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Most of my family has dyslexia.. i'm the odd one out with dyscalia
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| FeatherQuill |
Posted on May 07 2010 10:49 AM
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I don't know any members that do. My mother (Nurse) and sister (Pharmacist) are both in the medical profession, brother is an IT technician and I think my dad works out the cost of train parts or something like that. I think however my dad may be mildly dyslexic, he tends to mix up letters a lot. I downright asked him once and got no reply so... |
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| Kestrel6 |
Posted on May 07 2010 12:18 PM
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Not that I've seen; Dad's above average and Mom's a screaming genius. Unless it skipped a gen ot rwo; dunno about farther back.
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| kendustin7 |
Posted on May 27 2010 01:32 PM
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Even I read that dyscalculia is a genetic disability but I don't have anyone in my family who have it and still I have it. My sisters are all good in mathematics, my mom is weak but you can't say she is dumb like me.
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