QuestionMath Anxiety
My relationship with math is so traumatic that it’s caused anxiety around anything related to math.
Also, I’ve yet to know of another adult who has this diagnosis or suffers with it
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I'm actually good at math, but I get that same reaction with big forms
I'm just like you, and I have no patience for it
I've been scared of numbers since I started school, probably before. I always struggled with maths in contrast to other school subjects. I found the teacher's oral explanations using the blackboard hard to follow and too fast. So I got put down into the class that only did the much lower level exam and I gave up. The school gave up on us as well. But I needed it to become a teacher, even though you never actually use it. So, as an adult, I signed up for a one year Maths course, and the summer before it started I did maths all day every day from the course textbook. I enjoyed it and was really hyperfocused. We had a good teacher and worked in pairs so we were never just stuck during the lesson. It was a small group. I got a B, which was the highest I could get at the Intermediate level. I think it was more calculations I struggled with than maths. Now though, I can't remember any of it. I'm still bad at calculations and shy away from numbers. I often read clocks wrong, forget numbers, remember or write them down wrongly, find bus and train timetables impossible. I have to have help with finances sometimes. Mine is a comorbidity of ADD.