Month: January 2018

tikkunolamorgtfo:

naidje:

arandomcollectionofstuff:

bogleech:

emotionalmorphine:

razzledazzlewaffle:

Dyscalculia is a learning disability, a lot like dyslexia, but with math and numbers. Everyone knows what dyslexia is, but for some reason, dyscalculia isn’t as well known. I want people to know about this so no more kids are gonna believe uneducated adults who tells them that they’re just lazy and no more kids are going to think they’re just hopeless idiots when they try and try but just can’t understand. It happened to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else.

It’s surprisingly common and is often linked to ADHD. If you’ve ever had issues, look it up – you might find things fall into place for you, too.

  • Difficulty reading analog clocks[14]
  •  Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes
    even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a
    shopping basket or balancing a checkbook.
  • Inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • Difficulty with multiplication, subtraction, addition, and division tables, mental arithmetic, etc.
  • Problems with differentiating between left and right.
  • A “warped” sense of spatial awareness, or an understanding of
    shapes, distance, or volume that seems more like guesswork than actual
    comprehension.
  • Difficulty with time, directions, recalling schedules, sequences of
    events. Difficulty keeping track of time. Frequently late or early.
  • Poor memory (retention & retrieval) of math concepts; may be
    able to perform math operations one day, but draw a blank the next. May
    be able to do book work but then fails tests.
  • Difficulty reading musical notation.
    Difficulty with choreographed dance steps.
  • Having particular difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of
    an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 3 or 6 meters (10 or
    20 feet) away).
  • When writing, reading and recalling numbers, mistakes may occur in
    the areas such as: number additions, substitutions, transpositions,
    omissions, and reversals.
  •  Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulae, and sequences.
  •  Inability to concentrate on mentally intensive tasks.

I can’t even comprehend what it might be like being a human who doesn’t have all of these characteristics. I don’t know how a brain can possibly just “remember” how to do long division or know what ten feet looks like.

I can’t even accept that a car is more than like nine feet long. Ours is fifteen feet long, and even standing next to it, my brain is POSITIVE it’s small enough to fit in a bathroom.

This is the most me thing I’ve ever read on this site. I can’t read analog clocks I can’t recall number sequences etc.

WELL THEN

I have this! It wasn’t really a “thing” when I was growing up, so I was just inexplicably “bad at math” and had “poor spatial skilled,”’etc. Sometimes I wonder what I could have accomplished if this had been a more well-known disorder.

unpretty:

unpretty:

i bought an echo and a wifi lightbulb just so i could say “computer, turn off the light” instead of getting out from under the covers to flip the switch

problem found: my husband keeps yelling for the echo to play certain songs before he enters the bedroom so he can have entrance music appropriate to his mood

clocksarebigmachinesareheavy:

weareourowndevils:

bewarethebibliophilia:

sideshowcomics:

bewarethebibliophilia:

1970s canned goods label designs, from The Art of the Label by Robert Opie. We can see the Helvetica type family really taking hold in this era. And that Biba can was not a regular market item; those were high-fashion baked beans. 

My favorite design of the lot: meat and liver cat food.

There’s something very strict and minimalist about the evaporated milk can, it kinda looks liks something you’d find in a military ration or a soviet household.

That’s true, and there were many “generic” or “no-label” products common in the U.S. through the 1980s that featured packaging that was just the item name in all-caps black on white background (see: BEER), until it became apparent that this kind of packaging offered negligible cost savings and that they might as well try to dress them up a bit more.

Side note about Dougal: for anyone not already aware of the original show (The Magic Roundabout) there was an established history to this character in the mid-1960s to late 1970s, well before the infamous 2005 film. The US version of the film was especially notorious, though I haven’t seen it.

must be from the UK…i dunno….strange but i like the image

They are British. Tesco was a discount supermarket so the labels were designed to look like no money had been spent on creating them so the contents would be good value. Sainsbury’s was more upmarket so the labels looked more like thought had gone in to them, and therefore trying to make people think the contents must be good quality.

Source: bewarethebibliophilia

discworldtour:

“And that… boy,” the captain added, spitting the word towards Polly, “kicked me in the privates and almost clubbed me to death! I demand that you let us go!”
Blouse turned to Polly. “Did you kick Captain Horentz in the ‘privates,’ Parts?”
“Er… yessir. Kneed, actually. And it’s Perks actually, sir, although I can see why you made the mistake.”
“What was he doing at the time?”
“Er… embracing me, sir.” Polly saw Blouse’s eyebrows rise, and plunged on. “I was temporarily disguised as a girl, sir, in order to allay suspicion.”
“And then you… clubbed him?”
“Yessir. Once, sir.”
“What in the world possessed you to stop at once?” said Blouse.

– this whole exchange is gold |
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment