In college in like 2020-21 I begged for dyscalculia assessment to my maths teacher I always asked for it he said ok and I never got it

Now in this other college am in am still begging for dyscalculia assessment I have no maths class because am still in the waiting list still no teacher, am tired of not getting any support and help

Yes I went to the GP yes I wrote about it but they asked sooo many extra details n I did, no one wants to help am doomed forever I hate this life I wish I was normal I still got no refferall for learning disability

Because of dyscalculia I can't get anymore than a grade 1 how the hell am I supposed to get a grade 4 for a pass and then jobs actually take me serious?? It's impossible ugh 😢*

(Am based in the UK)

So I’m 19 I’ll have 20 this year (born on 2005) and I got my high school diploma at computer/IT engineering. I’m planning studying uni abroad, and I want to develop a new low-level programming language tailored for someone who has dyscalculia. The project is on my mind since August but I never truly considered it until today. I suddenly became so hyped about it and If it lead to something I want to merge it with my main project who is developing a new true cross-platform OS but that’s a different topic (not so different because I’m considering developing the microkernel using the language I’ve talked about) Like I’ve said I’m really hyped about it and I want some advice and y’all opinions/point of view/ thoughts about it !

B*tch i just freaking heard of this Reddit thread thru DeepSeek. Is that normal !????

i don’t know what to do. in my childhood, my dad would take me out of school to go to his job, even if i didnt want to, so ive missed out on almost the entirety of middle school. on top of that, my adhd / autism / maybe dyscalculia make it impossible for me to understand even rhe basics of math. im trying so fucking hard to do my math work in my online school but i just cant. i cant understand any of it. i cant comprehend it. i dont know what im doing. im on adhd medication to help my focus but its not even a focus problem i just cant understand math. nobody understands how i feel. i dont wanna be stupid forever, i need to finish highschool so i can get a degree. i want to be a mortition. i have my whole life ahead of me. and its going to be stumped because im too dumb to understand decimals and anything past addition and subtraction. im good at multiplication but nothing else. everytime my boyfriend tries to help me i just burst into tears because i feel so stupid. i just cant do it.

I have been relying on memorizing and incredibly rote assignments/exams starting from algebra, with differences in questions being so negligible that only a few numbers and names changed, otherwise I just needed the grit to work through dozens of pages of homework which I did. This bubble was completely burst starting from precalculus and college mathematics courses which frequently used outsourced question banks and basically told students to figure things out themselves, but the problem was ultimately me: I don't know how to develop intuition in math. The last time I felt any intuition regarding mathematics was in arithmetic operations, and even then getting me to memorize the multiplication table was a hassle, I could only remember tables with very specific and simple patterns, such as the 9 times table having the ones place decrement by 1 and the tens place increment, 9 18 27 36 etc.

For basic operations such a 8+5 I had to turn the operation into 10 +3 by subtracting 2 from 5 and adding the 2 to 8 so I was simply slotting in the place values.

I spent a lot of my life focusing on visual observation, the only study I enjoyed and didn't humiliate me was drawing.
Everything was tangible. I didn't need to rely on anyone and get judged and yelled at. If I needed to get better at drawing cats, I would look at pictures of cats and keep drawing until the mistakes I made were glaringly obvious. If I made a mistake, reality was my metric. Of course, I eventually started getting exhausted thinking about professional art and the sisyphean journey to make profitable art, as well as the fact I could not afford to take that path as my life is not really my own but split into different responsibilities.

I don't know why mathematics is described as the subject for analytical, objective people who might struggle with ambiguity/creativity. I am constantly reading definitions that "just are" and I need to memorize by practice for now until "later." Constantly practicing to still be unprepared for a strangely phrased problem I cannot ask for help on that looks nothing like problems I have encountered before. I have to try and make sense of invisible abstract relationships between symbols someone else invented, the history and source of this I cannot really access beyond biography.

In other branches such as computer science, abstraction is no comfort to me at all. I don't know what's going on. I zone out while reading code. I can't associate these words with anything observable it feels. The bridge between diagram and implementation feels impossible to bridge, but I have to keep going. Not sure how.

Yesterday, I got an email from my teacher. This is my third year repeating algebra 1 and she basically kicked me out through the email. Is this even ok? I'm crying because I feel like I'll never leave high school. Do I tell the principal or something? Please help.

She said that I'm stressed out over math and that I'm beginning to hate it. I never said any of this to her and she kept telling me I was smart and at the top of her class, and that I'd pass, then she ditched me. I don't know what to do at this point.

TL;DR

I built a Google Sheet to manage my money because I otherwise suck at it and it stresses me tf out. Instead of *only looking in the past* at what I spent last week/month/year, the idea is to plan out my spending and prominently show what I have leftover that is "safe to spend." You can make a copy of it yourself, for free, [here](https://github.com/jeremyraby/simpleBudgetApp/blob/main/README.md). I'd love any feedback you're willing to give!

Background

Hi everyone! If you're anything like me I can bet you've had trouble managing your money at some point. One of my first summers as a teacher I got down to less than $50 in my bank account before I finally got paid at the beginning of the school year (we got our last paychecks for the year the previous May) and I had been back to eating like I did in college for close to a month. Later, in 2015, I got "accepted" as a member to a fintech bank called **Simple**. It's no exaggeration to say the budgeting app they had completely changed my relationship with money. The most helpful features were that Simple would subtract whatever funds you budgeted as "expenses" or "goals" from your total balance and then prominently display your "Safe to Spend" balance (`total balance - expenses - goals = Safe to Spend`) and they did it all instantly and automagically. Think of it as digital "envelopes" to make sure you had your bills covered and you get the idea. My partner and I evangelized this bank to anyone who'd listen lol I used that app to pay off a surgery, $5k in credit card debt, and eventually felt like I had room to breathe without constantly worrying about my bank balance. Then one fateful day in 2021 I got an email that Simple was shutting down. If you think it's crazy I was heartbroken about a bank closing go check out this post on [r/personalfinance](https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/ksj1ho/simple\_is\_being\_shut\_down/) to see how others took it lol. I, for one, will never forget. 😅

The problem

Fast forward to last year after trying a few "alternatives." Some of those alternatives were free like Simple but were also buggy as hell (One) and others were just more expensive than I could afford (Qube). There is also an app (DAS Budget) that is literally a Simple clone built by another heartbroken Simple user, but again costs more than I can afford (I get it, it's a small dev team). I'm also accustomed to checking my Safe to Spend several times a day and some of the apps limit how many cloud syncs can be done in a day. I settled on using Ally bank and trying to make their "savings buckets" work for me because, even though I can't have more than 5 buckets, it's at least free and has great interest rates. But I was still running out of money again, or constantly pulling from my emergency fund, to pay for everyday expenses I thought I'd planned out. I tried Mint but it sucked (and was also shutdown) and YNAB is expensive and requires way too much manual labor. I finally decided that if all the free apps required manual labor and none of them -- literally none of them -- had anything similar to a prominent Safe to Spend then I'd just figure out how to make it with Google Sheets. So I did and have been using it successfully for almost a year.

The solution

A friend of mine recently asked what app I use for budgeting and I sent her my budget tracker but realized it was ugly and I was kind of embarrassed to show her. I set about fixing that and I thought maybe someone here could get some use out of it as well. Searching this sub shows a bunch of similar posts asking for advice which basically ends up being more of the stuff that didn't work for me for whatever reason. I'm in no way saying my solution is better than YNAB or DAS Budget or even Qube, but it's free and it works well enough for me. If you also just can't get your head around YNAB or don't want to pay for something that doesn't just do it all for you, I've put my project up on GitHub with instructions on how to set it up and a link to make a copy of the workbook for you to give it a shot. I wrote a pretty detailed "guide" for it and included screenshots and all the code (for Apps Script/Macros) but you're also welcome to DM me if you have questions. I'd really appreciate any feedback you're willing to give me, too! Anyway, here's the [link](https://github.com/jeremyraby/simpleBudgetApp/blob/main/README.md). I hope this helps someone!

Logging transactions on the Google Sheets mobile app

Viewing one of the dashboards on the Google Sheets web app

Setting up the budget

Has it worked for you guys or made it worse?

Hello! I’ve struggled with math and various other things my whole life. I attempted college and did fine except for Math which I attempted 4x and still couldn’t even scrape by with a C. Where did you go to get tested and diagnosed? My daughter is having the same issues.

After seventeen odd years of self diagnosis, I'm finally getting formally tested at the age of 31. I'm studying social work and an embarrassing incident, or rather a chain of them, at my work placement last year finally gave me the push I needed to do it. I loved my placement overall and the people and service users I was working with. It truly was a great experience, even though I was unsure at first, being that it was a Catholic secondary school and just not what I first envisioned as my work placement. In any case, I learned in the first week that it was far exceeding my expectations. I really miss it now that it's over.

What were the embarrassing incidents you ask? Directions. Always directions, which I've always struggled with no matter what. Having to go get students out of class to have meetings with them, or trying to figure out where to go find whatever other department or person I needed at the time. I had a map on my laptop home screen, and a tour on my first day and that was all well and good but...I felt like I could only play the "where is that again?" card so many times in the beginning. Eventually, I just started feeling embarrassed that I didn't just know in my head where Building A was, and I didn't always do the best I could have done because of it.

Thankfully, my supervisor was understanding when I finally spilled my guts about why I tried to get students to come to me, rather than the other way round, that it was because I struggle with directions and just got embarrassed and all in my head about it. I'm not usually like that, I'm normally very open and honest about having dyscalculia. In hindsight, I wish I didn't handle it that way, but at least it finally gave me the push I needed to go get formally diagnosed. Now that I'm not longer in school, and not having maths shoved in my face every day, it didn't seem as urgent to be tested as it did when I was younger. I'm lucky enough to not be American and not have all these general education requirements that include maths at the senior school or university levels, so after finishing Year 10l, I basically never had to deal with maths again. I could just do my own thing and work around things as best as I could, in the ways that I knew how.

I'm mainly getting diagnosed so that I have the paperwork to support any accommodations I may need in future workplaces or studies. But I think it'll also feel validating to finally have what I've already believed for nearly two decades confirmed. After a lifetime of being told I was just lazy and didn't want to learn maths, or that I just needed to try harder, it's well overdue, but I am a little nervous. I found one university in my area that could take me on as a client now, rather than in a year or two from now, and isn't extremely far away to travel to. The price also isn't exorbitant for what it is. It's a very reputable university that's been testing dyscalculia and other conditions, for a very long time now. I'm told that it's all computer testing and will take between forty minutes and an hour and fifteen minutes. I get a break after forty minutes, they analyse the data and get back to me with a report and an invoice.

I don't get to sit and talk with a psychologist at any point about my life experiences, or reasons why I think I have dyscalculia. It's all computer testing and while the clinicians have reassured me it's easy and scientific, that I don't have any reason to be nervous...I am, a little bit. For context, I'm in Melbourne Australia, so I don't know if other countries or institutions test differently. Has anyone been through this kind of testing before? How was it? Even if you haven't, I appreciate any good luck vibes you're willing to spare. ❤️

I've worked at a library as a page, aka someone who shelves books and processes holds, for over 2 years now and against all odds I really seem to excel at it. My higher-ups trust me, give me special tasks and I've even been considered for multiple promotions.

This is a minor miracle because I have pretty severe dyscalculia, and a good chunk of library work is reading out long sequences of numbers in order. When you have dyscalculia, the Dewey Decimal System never really gets easier no matter how long you work somewhere. I have to reread the spine labels of our books at least twice just to make sure I've got it because I'm constantly reading numbers out of order or mistaking them for other similar numbers.

I don't know how my supervisors haven't figured it out yet, but I guess this can be a message of hope for us. If even I, the person who failed math class 6 times and legitimately can't do basic addition, can get a career where I read numbers all day and succeed, then there's still hope for us. And most importantly, I love this job! I love working at a library despite my dyscalculia. I really hope you all get a job you love someday too.

So, I’ve been anxious about math my whole life. I always thought it was horrible and that I’d never be able to learn it, no matter what I tried. Having dyscalculia made my life a living hell, it affected my job, my life, everything.

A few months ago, I was talking to my sister, and she said, “Why don’t you try studying on your own time, without any pressure? Just start with the basics and see how it goes.” At first, I was like, “No fucking way.” I hated math so much. But then I thought about it and decided to give it a shot.

I started with the basics and slowly worked my way up to more advanced stuff. I found a website and an app, and now I spend at least an hour a day studying in my free time.

I know I’ll never be a math genius, and it’ll never be my favorite thing, but that’s okay. What matters is that I’m not giving up. I’ve learned so much more than I ever thought I could, and now I can actually solve math problems in my head, something I never imagined would happen. Plus, I’m solving math stuff so quickly now that I’m honestly kind of impressed with myself!

So, if you feel like something’s impossible, just take it one step at a time. Go at your own pace, don’t stress yourself out too much, and don’t give up. You might surprise yourself like I did

I have a diagnosis of dyscalculalia and I kinda doubted it because I've been scraping by in math (because I got lucky in it went from a teacher so bad it was basicslly a free period, to online school where I just used google, to a teacher who worked out the problems on the board for us to see/copy) but now my teacher moves quicker, uses a calculator, and goes to help others before I have a second to raise my hand. Anything above PEMDAS level looks the same to me. I turned in a blank test after 45 minutes with an advanced calculator to figure it out. I had to get my whole family involved just to manage to complete one homework sheet. Everyone else seems to get it.

Is there even hope my math level can improve? Basically everything I might wanna do requires math skills (surgeon, artist, things like that). I also just feel embarrassed/dumb so there's also that.

Just when I thought I had identified all the areas of my life where dyscalculia likes to mess with me... I took a pilates class.

"right foot on the left foot bar and face north at a 45 degree angel"

Ma'am- these words mean nothing to me. 😶

I want to preface this by saying I don't have a diagnosis. I can't read an analog clock, I have ADHD, I can't do basic math in my head, I keep mixing up formulas that I just googled, I don't remember dates or the time, I mess up reading numbers out loud... So yeah, I suspect I might have dyscalculia.

What I definitely have is a lot of bad experiences with maths. Maths makes me feel stupid. I work with projects and budgets and numbers all day, and then I have to try to estimate a percentage and just want to cry and throw my laptop out the window because I keep fucking it up and no calculator in the world can save me.

I can tell a lot of that is 10 year old me, crying at the kitchen table, being shouted at by my dad who thinks I'm just lazy. And I'm done with that. I'm a grown adult now with a good job, and I know I'm not lazy or stupid. I think I need to relearn maths, not because I will ever be any good at numbers, but because I want to have positive experiences with it. I want to be able to sit through struggling with percentages without wanting to scream.

I don't really know where to start though. I tried duolingo maths and didn't like it at all. Does anyone know some resources or has taken on a similar undertaking themselves?

I‘ve always been bad at math and it also always scared me ( but i also had an awful and sadistic math teacher who loved to bully bad students ). I‘m 31 now and generally am pretty bad at remembering phone numbers, birthdates, tipping in restaurants (figuring out how much to give) and i still am slow at math and dont like anything with numbers. It stresses me out. But its not a big deal in my life, its just something i feel i‘m naturally not inclined to be good at. What i do find disconcerting is that i generally cant read watches. Like i can but it takes me pretty long. For the life of me i cant imagine how people look at a clock and instantly know what it says. Same with knowing where left and right is. I always have to think about it and even then i‘m not sure. I always have to test it with my hands (forming an L, and the right L is where left is). Does anyone have the same problem? Could that be dyscalculia?

Just wanted to share a resource in case it might be helpful to someone else. Today, I was officially diagnosed with Dyscalculia by Diagnostic Learning Services here in Houston, TX. The psycho-evaluation took about 3.5 hours, though they typically allot 4 hours for the full battery of tests, which includes:

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (4th Edition)
• Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement-IV
• Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults (SATA)
• Brown Executive Function/Attention Scales

I received my results within a week, and they scheduled a follow-up appointment about two weeks later to review the scoring and provide the official diagnosis (if any). The results also confirmed my pre-existing ADHD and Anxiety.

If you're interested, here’s their contact info:

Diagnostic Learning Services
1502 August Dr, Suite 396
Houston, TX 77057
Phone: 832.839.2203
Website: https://www.diagnostic-learning.com/

Edit: They do not take insurance, however, I was able to pay using funds from my Flexible Spending Account (FSA). Healthcare Spending Account (HSA) funds can be used as well.

Hi! So, I'm currently trying to get my GED and I have faith as well as hope that I'll pass the other subjects and tests but I'm so fearful for the math questions and courses. I was wondering what I should do? I know it may be a dumb question but how would I go on about getting help with that? Would there even be someone at the centers to help me? Not to casually trauma dump mid post but I was a very sheltered kid who came from an abusive household and my mother never allowed me to go to public school so I never got to properly graduate. Now, I want a job as a TA and obviously need to pass my GED to be able to do so. I'm just trying to figure out the steps so I can better myself and finally have a career rather than a job. I don't know where to do or where to even begin. 😭😭 Any advice is appreciated 🙏🏻

I’ve always been bad at math. I am good at memorizing the patterns in math and repeating them back on paper, but I really don’t understand them at all. I miss a lot of small details because I don’t get the “why.” I just started college and I’m in the easiest math class they have and I already am getting confused. Everything just looks scrambled sometimes and my brain just goes blank. I’m not looking for a reddit diagnosis, but I’m just wondering if anyone here can relate? And who would diagnose me with this?

literally any help would be appreciated because I've hit a roadblock and I don't know how to move forward.

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• I go to a Flordia state college

• I have been neuro-psych diagnosed with ADHD & severe Dyscalculia, have my documentation

• For the last 2 years I've been fighting disability services for the use of an HP Prime Graphing Calculator in my intermediate algebra class

• The college refuses to follow the law

• They forced me to get re-diagnosed ^((no help in that process btw, they just said "good luck," try finding a neuropsyc in flordia that your insurance will cover...))

• The college refuses to allow any new accommodation beyond a default "extended testing time" and "quiet room" , regardless of the disability

• ^((I don't have this but I read it in the handbook)) They also don't believe schizophrenia counts as a disability

• Claims "some universities are exempt from having to follow disability laws"

• Goes through a repeating cycle of saying that Dyscalculia "isn't real/doesn't know what that is" & "Doesn't believe I have Dyscalculia" & then keeps saying "I'm not here to diagnose you."

• They keep claiming graphing calculators "give you the answer to everything" so they refuse to accommodate it... even though I already bought the HP Prime Graphing Calculator ^((they told me after the fact))

• They keep asking the professor if he thinks i'm disabled and if he wants to allow the accommodations

• The professor is highly ableist and abusive, use of slurs regularly and expressed extreme distrust & prejudice of my diagnosis and the concept of Dyscalculia when I attempted to have a conversation about it with him.

• Disability head screens my calls ^((and i think every call?)) and I can only get him to get on the phone if I call somebody else to go get him to pick up the phone

• Services have repeatedly lied to me by saying they will do actions that they never do, ranging from "calling me back" to "meeting with the professor to handle this" to "emailing me" basically anything they say they're going to do, they just don't do...

• I've had discussions with other disability services from both private and public universities and both say this is unheard of behavior.

• The college refuses to meet with me, instead they insist they meet with the math professor to discuss MY Dyscalculia and whether or not my accommodation request is reasonable.

• They've refused multiple times to meet with me to pen my accommodations letter

• and just today, after emailing the head once again in a grueling goose chase to get the guy to actually answer.... The professor dropped me from the class entirely...

What do I do here????

Like I'm starting to believe there's no other option other than to contact some sort of lawyer or... just drop out...?

Even crazier, Intermediate Algebra is a Pre-requisite.... It doesn't even count as a credit...
A class I'm forced to take that's gatekeeping me out of graduation because I took a test in 2019 when i was UNDIAGNOSED

I have no idea what to do, what do I do from here? who do I even contact? Is there anyone I can even contact??? If the college refuses to follow any laws or regulations what do i do?????

[Update]

I also just found out that I've taken two subsequent math pre-req courses that should've counted for graduation under Florida statue but they're refusing to count them towards my graduation requirements... So i should have already met graduation requirements 8 months ago...

I have an exam for university entrance, at 2nd feb and there are going to be about 25 math questions. I have appeared in this exam twice before and couldn’t pass it. I am freaking out and haven’t started studying math yet. The questions are mostly word problems and ratio, props, time, distance, speed, percentage, profit loss and probability type. I mean I can skip algebra because I really can’t even study for it. I need tips guyss. Can’t stay home for another year. Please someone help me. I feel so bad that I can’t do basic stuff even.

I have dyscalculia and ADHD.

Hey guys.. I have a sister who I'm pretty sure has dyscalculia.

She struggles with word problems, logic based questions, and even attempting fractions just frustrates her. In grade 4 btw.

I only got a few months prior to uni so I wanna put whatever time I got towards helping her..

I'd like some tips from folks here on how you guys were able to overcome these types of stuff in math, and what I can do to help!

I 18F want to major in elementary education. Has anyone here done an education major? If so, how did it go and was the math difficult?

Very anxious about doing college level math 🫠

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Okay. I am terrible at math. It's not secret. Everyone that sits near me in a math class would be able to tell you I am absolute ass at math. I cannot grasp complex math concepts and have been feeling so terrible while taking Algebra 2 that I have begun to doubt my intelligence and sort of hate myself. I see all the kids in my class understanding all of these difficult concepts so easily and being able to apply them effortlessly, meanwhile, I have no idea what I'm doing regardless of how many times it's explained to me. However, I can do basic math like adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and a basic little equation that involved that without irrational numbers. (Although I definitely take long with division). I'm not sure if it's possible to have a math focused disorder when I can still do the basics. But again, I feel terrible about myself in every class I have that involves math. I always fail miserably to understand new concepts. After elementary, my understanding of math went off the rails. I feel like there has to be some underlining issue even if it's not Dyscalculia or anything, but I just wanted to know if it's possible regardless. I'm great with English, and excel in it. I take AP Seminar (an AP English Class), and am supposed to be taken AP Lang or Lit next semester. I currently have an A in AP Seminar. So I know I'm not just dumb overall. I feel that there has to be some underlying issue to why I'm so terrible at math. I average about 15-30% on all my tests. Regardless.. if any of you guys have any information on what might be amiss with me, please, I'm begging. I need some sort of closure because I've never felt so small and I feel so embarrassed. (P.S. If you're wondering how I made it to Algebra 2, pity grading and.. Google. 😞)

does anyone mix up the months january & june or march & may. like someone can say there dob is may 15th & i might put 03/15 instead by mistake. something i have to count the months in my head. omgg and i know this has nothing do with months but sometimes if im reading a code for example: 372SJF ill read the letter “f” and say “5” in my head