Month: October 2018

tikkunolamorgtfo:

batneko:

tlbodine:

xavea:

thecharliedanger:

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.

@sunshine-soda look at those bullet points! It’s me! There’s actually a word it!

Wait a car is more than 9 feet long? I feel like that is a really long list, but I’ve known since high school I mix up my numbers. I’ve even referred to it to explain why as “almost like I have dyslexia but just with numbers”. Didn’t realize knowing how big or small a thing is is related to that.

This feels so familiar.

It me

(no literally, I have this)

I have this!

cratis:

the-golden-ghost:

whatamievensaying:

annabellioncourt:

There’s a lovely old English myth that if someone who truely loved and trusted the werewolf called it by name that it would turn back to human.

Others include throwing their human clothes at it and it’d turn back but that’s a bit less romantic

#ok i understand ppl would take the romancey route here#but imagine the werewolf’s mother#or grandmother#some wizened old woman or middle aged woman#with wrinkles or hands toughened from years of labor#just going out into the woods#where even the men with axes won’t go anymore#and facing down the ravening beast#and saying#it’s time to come home

I actually like the “throwing clothes at it” better cause now I’m picturing Grandma stomping out of the house at 3 AM in her slippers, arms full of clothes and facing down this horrible, snarling beast.

And then she just starts flinging clothes at it like “GODDAMN IT JEFFERY IT IS THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING YOU GET YOUR PANTS ON AND COME BACK INSIDE RIGHT THIS MINUTE”

@thebibliosphere

@isabelknight – Seriously though. For a lot of purposes, it’s about the safest option besides very effective. For laundry/stains and some other cleaning, I generally use the Oxy Clean type products (also peroxide action). But that’s not great to put on skin/in your mouth, much less for dogs 😨

Another thing I was surprised to have trouble finding before, and started ordering: citric acid. Also mostly for cleaning and removing lime deposits without other added ingredients I might be allergic to. Not a lot of home canning going on here, and apparently it can be used to make crappy heroin dissolve in water better. (Had to look up the specifics, but remembered it was something to do with drugs.)

At least it’s much easier to find bigger bags online now that people are using it more for bath bombs and similar. But, getting all weird about something as basic as citric acid because somebody might use it with heroin still seems a tad excessive.