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1. hollie (hollie@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:34:40 JST hollie

   Small thing but hey if you hear someone working through simple math out loud, please don't tease them about it unless you truly know it's welcome.

   Dyscalculia is like dyslexia with numbers, people who struggle with it frequently make simple math errors. These are often reduced if we say the numbers out loud. Cracks about whether someone can calculate a tip or do other everyday math in their head...it can feel very not funny, and increase anxiety (making the calculating harder).

   #Dyscalculia

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 20:35:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     @hollie Appreciate the heads up; thank you (I wasn’t aware it was even a thing) :)

   • nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 22:37:24 JST nellie-m

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @hollie

     Here’s me, unable to do mental arithmetics in spite of trying hard for nine years at school. Then we were allowed to use electronic calculators (those old-fashioned thingies before mobile phones existed) and suddenly I became good at maths! I began to really enjoy it even , and I loved algebra - maths with letters, woohoo!

     So dyscalculia doesn’t keep you from understanding the logic of maths, it just keeps you from crunching numbers 🙂

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 22:37:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     • nellie-m

     @nellie_m @hollie 💕