#but I have discalculia so idk

[thebraveasagi]

got the email that says I was selected for a tcg promo card 😊 yay! 👍

but the verification question to prove that i am human is a math question 😭 not yay! 👎

who wants to help me do math/get a promo card?

verification text:

As required by Canadian law, you must provide a mathematically correct answer to the steps below.

Step 1. Multiply 125 by 400

Step 2. Add 1,460 to the answer from Step 1.

Step 3. Divide the answer from Step 2 by 20.

Step 4. Subtract 1,573 from the answer to Step 3.

Provide your answer without any punctuation or spaces and answer carefully! If you fail to answer the question or submit an incorrect response, you will NOT receive the prize.

(emphasis mine)

poll:

the poll is open for a week but i actually only have four more days to submit my answer 😭 thanks trainers ilu

[daughter-of-sapph0]

literally same abt the math post. half the reason I don't have a degree is that the dyscalculia is so bad that I refuse to do any math classes, even if it means a career in stuff I love. refuse refuse refuse

yeah same. idk if I have discalculia. I would have loved to be a math teacher, but literally I cannot visualize or conceptualize anything past pre-calc.

and like, I know the basics of algebra and geometry great. I could see myself teaching it. but getting a degree in math education requires more than knowing high school level math unfortunately

I'm a very visual person. that's why I'm an art teacher. I do have a love for math. but once it starts getting theoretical and I can't visualize the math, that's when I reach my limit

[muckmagister]

Your imaginary number explanation only works on paper and not in a physical space. That's kind of what pisses me off about math - so much of it just isn't physically real and most of it is just used for tracking wealth/money/other capitalist bullshit. Math should be about efficient ways to count and measure, not arbitrary ways to put people into debt or make rich people seem even richer so they can scam other rich people.

I also think this is why so much of our understanding of physics is flawed - our counting system has less to do with the real world and more to do with social structures, so attempting to apply it to physics doesn't work.

I just. Maybe I'm just out of the loop bc I genuinely cannot process simple math equations but I really feel the reason for that is bc it's not grounded in a sense of reality OR in a mindset I can understand. Idk I'm autisitc and also there's a likely chance I have discalculia or some other learning disability/disorder that impairs math comprehension but seeing talk abt these kinds of math problem really make me think that I'm not the problem here.

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ok oouuh i- Well. I think you seem to have a pretty cynical outlook on maths. To say that it's all about putting people into debt and letting rich people scam each other is just. That baffles me, to be honest. It's like saying language is all about constructing the most brutal insults possible and telling people to kill themselves. Like yeah a lot of people use language to do just that but that's just one tiny part of it. Maths isn't just about efficient ways to count and measure either, by the way, it's its own language, its own art form, a vast mountainous landscape with peaks we've yet to climb and valleys we've yet to discover. Forgive me for getting poetic but maths just isn't that... small, y'know?

I also disagree that this is why our understanding of physics is flawed. To be clear: It's flawed because we're idiots. We're idiots figuring out how our new toy works by throwing it around and pulling and squishing it randomly, because it didn't come with a manual and we have no idea what we're doing. Also, mathematics isn't our way of understanding physics, it's our way of building models that try and predict what would happen in certain circumstances. That might just sounds like I'm being semantic, but I think it's important to point out that nobody actually, truly, has any idea how physics really works. In fact, no ones ever even seen physics, when we make observations about the physical world, we're just seeing what physics does. So we use maths to make models that predict what we expect to see in our observations, and then we use those models and our observations together to try and infer the nature of reality. But we're all just guessing at that point, really.

So with all that in mind, to say that our understanding of physics would improve if only we had a better suited system of mathematics is. Well, I disagree. I also think that there isn't just some "better" system of mathematics out there waiting for us to discover it. I'm reminded of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. I encourage you to look it up on your own if you want, but basically, in any reasonable mathematical system there will always be true statements that cannot be proved. So there certainly are other systems of maths and we have looked into them. They do have their own upsides and downsides depending on how they work, but to say one system is better than another is, well, if I may use the language analogy again, it's like saying one language is better than another, when really it's just different sets of words and rules for us to say the same sentences.

So when it comes back to our current system of mathematics, it's not better or worse than any other system except for how widespread it is, just like how most of the world uses metric, a standardised system of maths makes it easy for anyone to communicate the same mathematical ideas to one another. But there are other systems of mathematics that become useful tools in more niche areas of maths for people to talk and understand those difficult topics.

With all that being said now too, I don't think our current system of mathematics, or any other system really, inherently has any less to do with the real world than it does with our social structures, or anything else for that matter. In fact, I don't think any system of mathematics inherently has anything to do with anything except itself. People didn't invent maths, we discovered it and then we invented ways of talking about what we learned. But numbers are their own thing. Their own abstract metaphysical objects. And they'd exist whether there was anything alive to know about them or not. Saying that there's a special way to use them to understand physics to me implies that numbers are what physics is, in a way, but like I said we have no idea what physics is. It just so happens that numbers are an incredibly useful way of talking about what physics looks like. But it's also incredibly useful to talk about our social structures. Frankly we're incredibly lucky that we've been able to saddle these concepts from abstract space, that our minds are powerful enough to reach out beyond the real to give us these tools of ideation that we can use for so many things.

You said that maths difficult for you because "it's not grounded in a sense of reality OR in a mindset I can understand" and I think those two things are the same problem in a way. I know I just did some big talk about how maths is really this abstract thing that isn't inherently connected to the real world, but we're all still the idiots I said we were, so a lot of maths does need to get grounded in reality for it to be reasonably comprehensible. And being able to ground a mathematical concept is often about shifting your mindset until you can see it at an angle you understand.

Like, you also said that my explanation only works on paper and not in a physical space, and I actually disagree! But I do think I get where you're coming from. I suspect you're thinking about numbers like physical objects, as in, the number 1 is like having 1 apple. So well of course, negative numbers kinda make sense right? I mean you can't just have less than 1 apple but you can get an apple taken away. But when you introduce i, it's like. What does that even mean? And you'd be right that it really doesn't make sense when you think of numbers as objects like that. But numbers aren't physical objects, we're just taught like that as kids, 1 apple, 2 bananas, 3 oranges, because they want us to build the association between the symbols (1, 2, 3) and the idea of that amount of something, of that value, of 1 being 1 apple or 1 step. But that's it, 1 isn't the apple, or the step, it's the idea of "oneness" or "singleness" and 2 is the idea of "doubleness", 3 is "tripleness" etc. It's difficult to even describe the idea of "singleness" without using physical metaphors, which is why we rarely ever do think about numbers in their purely abstract forms. And it's of course why we teach kids with apples and bananas, and why we go on to teach addition and subtraction by giving them more and taking them away. Even though, likewise, addition and subtraction isn't really about giving and taking. Now, I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't think about numbers as physical objects, or addition and subtraction as giving and taking. I'm just saying those are the initial ways we ground maths in reality in order to teach the concepts in the first place. And for a lot of people, this understanding of numbers is all they need for the rest of their lives. But the truth is there are different ways of understanding numbers and the operations we perform on them, and shifting your mindset on how these things work is an important part of being able to grasp more complex concepts, like imaginary numbers.

Finally, I said my explanation does work in physical space, how is that? Well if your understanding of numbers is that they're like objects, and that addition and subtraction is like giving and taking, then it doesn't work in physical space, no. What you need to do is think about numbers as a distance, and think about addition and subtraction not as giving and taking, but instead about direction. So what that means is that numbers don't tell you how much of thing you have, they tell you how far away from zero you are. Now when people talk about the number 1, what they usually mean is positive 1, like 1 = 0+1. (We just don't always draw the addition symbol out front.) So now if 1 is the distance away from 0, then positive + is the direction you travelled away from zero in. And when you write -1, the negative symbol isn't saying you have an "opposite 1" or that you're "taking 1 away", it's that you're travelling a distance of 1 in the negative direction, which is exactly the opposite of the positive direction. On a number line, this idea is pretty easy to comprehend since you only have two directions you can travel.

However, i is defined as being the square root of -1, which doesn't make much sense if you stick with the traditional understanding of what a square roots is, since it seems impossible to take the square root of a negative number. You can take take the square roots of +1, which are just 1 and -1, since obviously 1*1 and -1*-1 both equal 1. I'd also like to point out that taking the square root of any positive number works like this, you always get two solutions which are both the same distance away from zero in opposite directions.

(Square roots and square numbers are usually taught using, well, squares, introducing exponent notation where, say, 5*5 = 5² = 25, which is explained visually with how a square of side lengths 5 naturally has an area of 25, then that the square root is the opposite of this process and that 5 = √25. As you may expect, there are other ways of defining the notion of a "square" and "square root", and I'm sure that some of those ways can help make the existence of imaginary numbers become much more obvious, it's just, to be completely honest I don't know them.)

Now, if you do try to take the square root of a -1 anyway, and you just don't accept that it looks impossible, you'll have to invent a new number that explicitly has the property of squaring into -1, and since this new number won't be able to fit on the number line what ends up happening is that the number line gets extended into the second dimension, as in, it used to be a number line but now its a number plane. And if this sounds ridiculous let me remind you, this isn't the first time we've invented new numbers and extended the number line, again: negative numbers didn't always exist.

Also, remember how I said +1 and -1 are both square roots of +1? well +1i and -1i (or just +i and -i) are both the square roots of -1, and as you can see, they also sit a distance of 1 away from zero in opposite directions. In fact, √16 = +4 and -4, and in the same way the √(-16) = +4i and -4i. I know this likely won't really be able to help you understand, but hopefully it's nice to see how it is self consistent in a way and that it does kinda help to think about numbers like that.

or anything useful at least- i'm no teacher i just like talking about this stuff:> fhsdkjhs

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[ndcultureis]

Ok so this isn't really an "x culture is" sorta thing but its a neurodivergent experience i had and idk where to put it because I wanna talk about it.

Sorry this is kinda long

So I did work experience this week and yesterday I was doing some admin tasks to help prepare for some events and I had to write down these numbers that someone was saying out loud. And anyway. I have discalculia. So naturally, I messed up. And I got a little frustrated. But I hid it and kept going, because im used to stuff like this now and I barely notice it.

The mistake was that I wrote down the wrong numbers and then crossed them out and then wrote down the wrong numbers again, which I then crossed out. I kinda cross out my handwritten stuff fairly messily and my supervisor mistook that for anger and lectured me on having to "breathe and go slow" and I felt like crying. Like no shut up.

He was a really nice guy and all, and I could practically smell the autism radiating off him (im autistic (audhd really) btw so i don't mean this in an offensive way) but oh man. I was so upset but hid it because how do I explain that when I heard him say 246 I wrote 267?? (Idk if those were the exact numbers but they ended in 6 and 7 and were in the 200s) Because even with my auditory processing disorder I did hear him correctly, although that was also challenging. But how do I explain it without seeming stupid?? How can I say that I just... cant do numbers?

And then later in the day I had to double check some ticket things for an event that this place was doing and the numbers involved in that.... idk how I did it. I had to triple check it and I got so much wrong, but I think in the end it was fine. I just... yeah. Numbers suck.

Not really i guess. Its just my brain. And I hate it, because how do I explain this. Im not diagnosed but since grade two I haven't been able to do simple maths, resulting in tears and being put in the lowest maths class and getting extra time and stuff for maths even without a diagnosis. Because they can all tell how stupid i am.

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[i-may-be-an-emu]

I have dyscalculia. It sucks. I dont talk about it a lot because I forget I have it, because it's just... normal for me.

Discalculia is a mathematical learning disability, but it's more than that. It's getting numbers mixed up, seeing one number when it's another and hearing numbers and equations feels like your brain is being grated through a cheesegrater. It sucks.

(This is a long post so yea keep reading it under the cut i guess)

I couldn't tell you the amount of times that this causes problems for me. Just in everyday life.

My brain sees numbers and maths and equations as pain. I dont understand them. And yeah.

I can remember being in grade 3 and crying in the middle of maths because I just couldn't get it. And because no one understood why it was so hard for me. It doesn't helpt that im autistic and have adhd and a bunch of other fun stuff going on too.

And one of the worst parts about it is how misunderstood it is and how under-informed about discalculia a lot of people are. Because it's estimated that 3-6% of the global population have discalculia, that is 474 million people at most and half of that at the least (it had a 3 somewhere i think?)

But like. So many people probably just think they're dumb. So many people.

Anyway. Im just mad I guess. Cause every time I google stuff about it and how to cope with it there's like "how to help your child with discalculia" and then it says to use flash cards and repetition. And then the rest of the websites are about dislexia and like sure good we need those but come on. And like. People just don't get it. Idk how to explain this.

[g0dtier]

i have to do a fucking math test that has like baby grade math questions but math was always my worst subject and i havent done this particular kind in........16 years. its the "solve this without using a calculator" kind of horseshit

time to die

[miscellaneous--bones]

Just some late night thoughts abt a coping mechanism thats becoming a bit if a problem latley

Something that I've been realizing/researching/thinking abt latley is that one of my biggest coping mechanisms is escapism, specifcally meladaptive daydreaming, that I do in what may or may not be a response to trauma of some kind? (Little T, i think, might just also be the past year or so in general, or something idk) which then leads to the thinking of, if I want to heal, or stop, or whatever it is I need to do (seeing as especially latley it has become more of an Actual Problem, distracting me from... Generaly Living?) I will have to stop daydreaming and shit? Which scares me.

I've been doing this shit for as long as I can remember, and I know that I started because I liked it as well as to cope with both the inconsistency of the people around me and where I was living. (Which I specifically remember that was why I made/what I used my ocs for because I always said "these are the friends that stay with me", which... Thinking back is so sad, and I still do it all the time????) But also I just genuinely enjoyed it. Now its become "well what would I do if I didn't??? What would my brain be full of??" So I'm scared that if I want to address things and become healthier I might have to stop daydreaming, which sucks. So it makes me even more hesitant to look into therapy or whatever the fuck (on top of my parent's general thoughts toward the entire situation, as well as finances, and everything else) because I.... I mean I've lived this long and gotten through ok, right? i'll be fine even if it might not be the healthiest thing to do- which we dont even know if its unhealthy- it couldbe okorsomethingidkman--

(Tl:dr?) Idk just... Ugh im tired and i dont wanna have to give up this thing thats always given me comfort

[xcziel]

I mean, yes the power going out thing is real bc it's a special form of disorientation when you wake up alone and everything is black and silent, no reassuring electric hum, and you have no idea how long it's been like that?

but also I just bought two analog clocks (like the 5$ school classroom kind) because my vision is SO bad I can't read a digital one from any distance farther than like 4 inches away (even on a large display, 8 and 0 for instance are too blurry) and I got tired of scrambling for an alarm clock/my phone, holding it up to my face and squinting at it every time I'm not wearing glasses

A digital 7 and 1 can be confused (at least by me lol) depending on your visual angle, but on a round-faced clock it's easy to tell if it's say, early or late afternoon, even if you can't get it exact.

Like the minute hand is down around the 5-6-7 area so it's approximately half past the hour, that kind of thing - as an adhd assist it helps me keep track of time passing

Oh it's been *approximation of time as distance* since i started? I better be wrapping up then if I'm gonna leave on time.

* I admit I have appliances with clocks but I also almost never can be bothered reset them correctly - my oven and microwave both say different times, neither of them is correct

My cousin just asked if she could come over and pick up the clocks that she left here because she and her husband don't have any way to tell time at her house except by looking at their phones.

Maybe this is *extremely dyscalculic* of me but are you fucking kidding me do people actually use analogue clocks in their homes to tell time?

[fullmoondagger]

Thinking about my HS science teacher bc of that ADHD post Its still honestly so wild to me how fucking unwilling to understand me she was...

I have some trauma around math. It's hard to distressing to me to interact with numbers because of teachers and my father being unable to explain to me and getting mad & screaming for the latter and leaving me to rot for the others, so now my reaction to seeing numbers is simply blanked out I will not do math on my own, seeing it makes me anxious and upset. Also might have slight discalculia that must have played into me being bad at math in the first place. Whatever.

Taking this into consideration I chose studies that did not have maths taught as a subject, with a lower level in everything else to go easy on myself, didnt turn out as I had planned but thats not the subject of the post.

Science teacher! I kinda like science, I was a little excited to have another teacher for the last year or so but like I was not doing well because again, math, and I don't do homework because I spent all my free time trying to recover from my days and I have better shit to do anyways which (rightfully) annoyed her but like. One day at the end of class she was like ohhh how are you doing so bad you have so much potential which instantly triggered my bite bite kill destroy instinct so I calmly explained to her that I could barely get two consecutive hours of sleep at night, that school was eating me alive and I barely had my head out of the water, that I had undiagnosed untreated ADHD and it was hard for me to do anything and that I was bad at math to begin with! I went serious and honest because sometimes you gotta, yknow. She brushed it off and went but youre so smart you can be good at this ! I KNOW you can do it! To which I replied this was simply crippling me more with anxiety and the certainty I will not archieve it because I was already doing my best and therefore disappoint her. Which I didnt care to please her at all for starters I dont want to be here.

Still I tried! I tried to read up my lessons and prepare for the next test, and I was pretty confident I had done a better job ! And I DID. I got a 13/20 instead of my usual 3-7/20 (for those with diff grading systems 0/20 is bad and 20/20 is good)

Needless to say I was happy ! I practically doubled my average results . Handing me my paper she said in front of EVERYONE in the class that "You could have done better and frankly with a test like this it looks like you're making fun of me". 💀💀💀 I got so pissed as you can imagine! Imagine saying that to a student after you have been exlicitly told about their situation.

At the end of the class I came to her desk and told her she had been really hurtful because I actually tried and studied for that test and I actually did impossibly better than usual, AS SHE WOULD KNOW, and that it was just rude to say that in front of everyone. She went on again about my potential and I told her to stop making up a fake image of myself in her mind because that's not the truth and I will never be it but again she didnt give a shit.

She went personal with me at the teacher council (I was attending bc I was elected for it to take notes for my classmates n bring up issues) and went on again about my potential so I got mad at her after that night I simply stopped going to science class altogether. Fuck that bitch lol. You wanna see me fail I'll show you fail.

Moral of the story evil teachers wont give a shit about you. Fuck em. Preserve yourself before anything else & also maybe dont listen to my advice school years were immensely damaging for me and I will have no positive or intelligent thoughts about it ever. Idk what the point of this post was but I think seeing shit abt wasted potential made me go rabid

[lesbianjamies]

I think fatou’s season is very different from Nora.. sure there was an issue with her alcoholic mom which also made her try alcohol as well and the thing with josh vs the thing with Constantin.. while fatou is a more complex character.. bc well we have her discalculia since ep 1, and her being stressed and too afraid and ashamed to talk about her problems to someone else and the thing with her crush (KM). Fatou’s season is being developed as her character is.. her not talking to anyone about what’s happening.. her shutting herself up.. idk if I’m making sense but it’s a whole different story from Nora 🥺 and I don’t think that the only focus should be her relationship with Kieu My :(

you make some really great points there anon! you’re right fatou is definitely more than just her relationship with kieu my  and if i seem to be focusing on that too much on here i apologize! i guess bec her crush on kieu my was one of the first things introduced about her character in s5 and its currently one area that’s being affected by her larger issues of communication, conflict avoidance, and her learning disability, its intertwined with her story but still it shouldn’t overshadow fatou as an individual character 

and yeah with a different main comes a different approach to the storytelling so fatou’s season will def be different from nora’s. i agree she does have a lot to deal with which makes her and her story so complex and also so interesting to watch but i guess for me its just so hard to see the difference in her support system or rather lack thereof you know? yeah it  actually can be supported by the narrative but it doesnt make it any less painful and i still cant help but ask, even rhetorically lol, why she’s going thru this alone (mostly) 

[incorrectenhypenquotes]

Hi!! You don't have to if you don't want to but it would be really cool if you could do like a get to know your admin sort of thing?? Your just so fun and ur content is so great and id love to get to know more about you as a person aah 🥺

awe this so sweet and cute so yeah suree

My name’s Nayantara but it’s a bit of a mouthful so my friends usually just call me Tara :) I’m sixteen, she/her, I’m indian and I live in India now but I was born in the states and lived there till I was about 12 before moving here. Im a pretty artistic person so in school my best subjects are art and english (im in the IB) - im shit at math cos I have this type of number dyslexia called discalculia but it’s mild so i still have to take math (cos IB *sigh*). 

Im in the 11th grade so I’ve been pretty swamped with academics and extra curriculars this year so I-LAND is a distraction but a kind of welcome one (by me at least - not so much my um, parents and teachers). Oh I also do a lot of music stuff - I play bass, electric and acoustic guitar, the piano, a bit of drums and I’m a decent singer if I do say so myself (idk how to phrase this without sounding cocky aah forgive me), I also listen to basically every concievable genre of music pretty deeply - I also watch a lot of movies yeet. I wanna do either animation or film in college, but I change my mind like 3 times every minute so by the time I start applying that may change :) Idk if any of you care but I’m also a libra and an esfp :)

I’m also a really politically charged person so lots of environmental and gender marches. My  countries currently a bit of the mess (like the world ig) so there’s a lot to protest about - I’m also definitely not straight but I’m 16 and i dont really wanna put a whole label on it so usually I just identify as “queer”.

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[ladadee195]

So i totally didn’t see it but I was tagged by @walkwithursus and I’m gonna do this now while its super late or I’m gonna forget AGAIN.

six random facts about me! 

1. I’ve never been to a concert. I’m 30 years old and not once have I ever been to a musical concert. I’ve been to probably 5 off Broadway musicals. and One WTNV live show but no musical concerts. I know that many people in my age group who have some sort of affinity to music have been to at least ONCE concert in their life but I’ve been to zero. I’ve had chances, been invited, tried to get tickets to a few but its never happened and I’m not upset about it?? there are a few bands I wouldn’t mind seeing? but idk, just not into the idea?? Its weird because my parents ( Mom specially ) went to a lot, they love music and shit and I’m like “nope!” 

2. I’m sure I’ve said this before in other “random fact” things but I’ve never broken a single bone in my body *knock on wood* ever. An I’ve never once had to be on the hospital for anything. I’ve had plenty of tooth surgeries but those don’t REALLY count?? yeah, idk if I’m extremely lucky or waiting for the time-bomb. I suppose we’ll see.  

3. That being said, I ALMOST broke my leg sledding once when I was probably around 9 or 10? slide down the wrong side of the hill, was heading for a tree and like an idiot I stuck my leg out. Some nice neighbor mom carried me home ;). 4. I recently self-diagnosed myself with Discalculia. Which is like Dislexia only with numbers? its hard to explain really, I’m slow at counting, understanding advanced math, horrible at counting money, I don’t always understand units of measurement, and I’m bad a memorizing numbers too.  An when I try and say a number it usually comes out mixed? like I know what it says on the screen or paper? but when I say it, my mouth says something different. Its really frustrating while at work but I’m getting better with money day by day. Still don’t know how to many change.  I do have a small issue with actually dyslexia but it really only effects my memory? like I can’t remember certain words and sometimes I can’t pronounce them right even tho I might have in the past. 

5. I don’t drink coffee. I can’t stand it, I don’t like the taste or the smell. I know many people need it to live but I’ve been living off of water and the occasional soda my whole life. I wake up fine without it, I also don’t rightly understand the need lol maybe when I’m older my body will finally need it? 

6. I hate the way grass feels on my my skin and feet. Specially wet grass. Idk if its some sort of autistic thing or what but I really can’t stand it unless its really REALLY soft grass. So I rarely go around barefoot in the summer. 

OKAY so its late and I don’t feel like tagging any of you, so anyone who wants it. Give it a go. I wanna LEARN ABOUT YOU!!!

[jonandtormundendgame]

Your modern au with dumb Jon is absolutely hilarious... what do his cousins think of him? Is he rickons fav because he’s the easiest relative to convince to do badly thought out ideas with?

😭😭😭 hon you get it you get it

In all honesty, he just has discalculia (like I do) and so it’s lead to him 200% unable to comprehend grammar rules (idk what anya ya on okay grammar makes zero sense I failed English class so many times it’s not even funny the only class I failed more was math) and he’s still stuck on pre-algebra and science was all fun and games till they added numbers to it and he wanted to die a little. He truly just doesn’t know how numbers work. Also zero common sense but that’s like. On pointé af for Jon Snow so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Robb regularly manipulates him so Robb can get away with the DUMBEST shit while Jon gets the blame, but it stopped working when he was like 10 and everyone realized he’s got the common sense of a snail.

Sansa tried to tutor him in math one time. We don’t talk about that time. Jon ended up crying and couldn’t look at her for a week.

Arya and him tend to be the ones that hang out the most, but mainly when Lyanna is there, because these idiots are 90% her let’s be real here. The three of them together have ended up arrested or almost arrested about fifteen times since Arya hit puberty, and Ned can’t even blame Jon and Arya because Lyanna was with them.

Bran is fun because he knows EVERYTHING ever and Jon paid him to do his homework for him for a month before Ned found out about it and gave them disappointed looks. Just imagine that. Imagine paying someone ten years younger than you to do your homework for you. It’s not even that Bran’s a math genius like Sansa, it’s just that even an eight year old is better at numbers than Jon.

Rickon is fun because Jon doesn’t have to DO anything with him for the first like six years or so. He just naps all day. That’s like. Totally up Jon’s alley. But now he plays with Tormund’s daughters and Jon’s all ‘ahh, cool, I don’t have to pretend to be an adult with a working brain, yay’ and it’s amazing’

Tormund just tells people his BF is REALLY pretty at this point. They ask him what his bf does for a living and Tormund’s just all ‘he’s... he’s so pretty...’

Idk, maybe someone teaches Jon to knit, and now Tormund won’t stop bragging about how amazing it is to have handmade blankets and hats and shit and Jon’s finally calmed down for five minutes because it actually doesn’t take as much brainpower as you think it does. I’m the dumbest person I know and I knit constantly.

[maxxmutt]

Venting about neurodivergencies and mental illness bc im struggling with it rn and I need to let the beast out

Everything about the way my brain works and how I learn was always so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on all ends. I was never quite sure if I was 'normal' or if 'something is wrong with me' and the adults in my life never had solid answers for me. In 8th grade I was Struggling very badly, my parents and teachers talked to me about it and they say I got back on my feet and did better, on paper they are correct i think?? but nothing felt different to me. I still felt the same struggling after I supposedly 'started doing better'. It never felt like I was doing better and sometimes still don't.

I was told I have some learning disabilities but never go formally diagnosed for some reason. I got my adhd diagnosis as an adult, but all that's come of it is I know for sure I have it. I never got diagnosed with discalculia but im am so so certain I have it, I've researched a lot and i know my experiences. It effected me so badly and still fucking does. It's the source of many of my problems STILL. There may be other things going on in my brain but I don't think I count so I don't see a doctor about them. But I also still have the lingering thoughts in the back of my mind anyway, but I can never belive myself so once again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have felt stupid since late middle school. I felt stupid in high school. My grades didn't contradict this thought in my head to me since i have a horrible complex set for myself that is way too high, and now I feel stupid as an adult going through uni. I just don't deal with it as often bc my uni doesn't require math 99.9% of the time and I straight up don't read things they give me and work around it (probably unhealthy but eh). I procrastinate until I'm crying through an assignment even though they give me time. I have been told to ask for accommodations, but if they give me extra time I'm just going to procrastinate LONGER and continue to suffer.

My meds only do so much. And trying new ones to find the one that works is daunting as fuck, I'm in school atm and don't have time for the repercussions of going on and off diff meds ever month. I already am doing bad with assignments, I don't need another problem to make that worse. And sure, maybe I find work around without medication, but I also feel I can't do that bc I can't get a handle on my adhd by myself.

I am so so mad at myself for laying in bed unable to get up and start tasks for no reason other than my brain works different and executive dysfunction and task paralysis are attached to my ankles at all time. I feel so fucking stupid, and lazy, and broken and I just don't know what to do with myself rn. If I had time to go to someone and find out all of what is going on with me and find meds that work maybe I'd shut the fuck up but I have zero time for it rn.

Idk, I'm just really feeling the frustration and sadness of neurodivergency rn... actively procrastinating on an assignment due in 2 days as we speak <3 cant get out of bed <3 adhd is a fucking nightmare and anyone who says it isn't real or isn't that bad is wrong and I fkn hate you, this shit is fucking hell.