naamahdarling:

thebibliosphere:

curiousitykilledthe-crow:

toloveviceforitself:

peanutworm:

thewildonion:

chiefmilesobrien:

peanutworm:

You, an intellectual: 9+7=16

Me, with ADHD: if you take 1 from 9 and give it to 7 thats 8+8 and 8×2 is 16

Someone, usually a Teacher: NOT LIKE THAT YOU HEATHEN

This is literally how I would have done it

9 is a hungry bitch and takes one from 7, making it 10+6=16

VALID

This is why, on my IQ tests as a teenager, during the arithmetic processing portions, the test administrator asked me to walk her through how I was getting the answers.

Because I was coming up with the answers pretty quickly, but it was clear from other portions of the test that my raw processing speed is actually pretty slow. So when she asked, I told her I was very quickly making little easily-crunched shortcuts like these.

Which is all well and good for as long as it works, but the problem is that you can frequently use these shortcuts to fake being good at raw processing tasks right up until someone gives you a task that can’t be shortcutted, and expects you to do it quickly because you seem to process like a normal person.

And then they probably accuse you of being suddenly lazy or stupid.

I didn’t know this was adhd

I do this all the time. Always have.

Huh…

…Wait. What.

It can also be a dyscalculia thing. I have to break down ALL functions into single-digit addition in order to do any math at all.