Young Writers Society

ahah that's admirable! If I can possibly avoid math at all I will do so haha

Math is fun.

We did in school some math contests where we had to stand in front of our desks and the teacher went to two students and gave them something to calculated. The loser had to sit down until the last one was standing. They won nothing besides being the best. I was nearly always second. That girl... one day I´m going to win!

ahaha nice!

See, I am dyscalculic. Which is the numbers version of dyslexia. So I have an extremely strong visceral hatred of numbers in general haha

Oh, and as a biologist that´s not so great...

IT REALLY IS NOT THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING xD it makes my life so much harder than it needs to be lol I once had a prof that wanted me to manually write out binary code which is just a bunch of 1's and 0's and hecc I almost died xD

That´s awful. Isn´t there a way to change that? Or something that can help you, like an app for this?

No ;-; Apparently Comic Sans, as awful as it is lol, helps people with dyslexia and I've found it also helps with numbers -- but the thing is is that Word won't accept formulas in custom fonts so it's actually not particularly helpful for me. I usually just go literally number by single number and hope for the best and get really upset when the best doesn't happen xD

I saw that on a YT video but they also cleared up, that it isn´t actually working with dyslexia.

Oh, but that is a source of mistakes. Dyscalculic, is that common? Than why isn´t already an invention out there to help people?

I don't think so, honestly. I usually put "dyslexia" when asked to self-ID any learning disabilities because it's close enough and there was once this poll so I put dyslexia and then they *also* had a dyscalculia option and I was shook xD I got SO excited and changed my answer... but that is a single instance of representation in 26 years, so, uh... yeah.

Hm. Maybe you should make it a more important topic so that people can see that they are not alone.

I put it in my novel! My MC has it -- and it makes her life frustrating and harder than it needs to be, but she's still competent and capable -- and I'm p proud of that representation ngl

Oh, that´s a neat idea.

Thanks ^-^ It kind of arose organically because I needed my MC to calculate something and *I* struggled with it then was like you know what? She's dyscalculic too

Oh, that´s interesting. I think creating characters with some flaws is easier when you take oneself into consideration.

No doubt! I feel like casual representation is really good, you know? Like, being dyscalculic isn't a key part of her character -- it's just a "grrrrr why is this hard?" when she's trying to put some documents in order as an aside haha