redditors make up a new disorder to cope with being r-slurred
ok but seriously reading the wiki article of dyscalculia really makes it seem like these people are actually mentally r-slurred?
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They often struggle with key concepts like bigger vs. smaller
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Oh ffs this is just called being regarded.
Itโs the same thing as calling a garbage man a sanitation engineer.
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Sanitation engineers make more than your average engineer though
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I've met people of dyscalcula before
25% are r-slurred, but the rest have personal problems like daydreaming in class, going home and playing video games instead of catching up, and then getting in a cycle of horrible anxiety.
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My teachers told me I was SOOOO smart in grade school. I just didn't apply myself It turns out the only reason I've been an entry-level barista for the past seven years is that I have dyslexia, dyscalcula, autism, and mental r-slurdation.
You see, I truly am smart (my second grade teacher said so), but the reason I got bad grades and had a failure to launch is because I struggle with all of these diagnoses.
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I knew a guy who had legit dyscalculia a while back and I can confirm that dude was actually fully fricking r-slurred. Like people would hang out with him and then ask him if he had a developmental disorder tier r-slurred. He would always get mad and go "just dyscalculia!"
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Idk the only person Iโve met with dyscalculia was a light sperg who ended up doing cs after brute forcing all his math classes. Really struggled with math but just used all his neurodivergent focus on it. God bless that man.
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I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of people posting in that thread about how bad they are at maths didn't apply themselves in maths class and never studied, just assuming that one day they would magically understand it.
I notice that a lot of kids who are "gifted" in English class don't find maths intuitive the way they do reading and writing, so they give up on it. Then later in life when they struggle with basic numeracy skills they just complain that they were taught wrong or have a mental illness. Of course, there are genuinely shit maths teachers out there, lots of them, but if kids who don't understand the material never ask for help and refuse to study then they aren't going to get anywhere even with the best teachers in the world.
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I had no goddarn clue what I was doing in Partial Diff Eqs and got a B-
I couldn't reproduce anything from that class with a gun to my head
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Diff Eqs was the first time in my entire lifetime I ever zoned out during a lecture and snapped back into it and was like "holy shit what" at what was on the board.
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You vomit a bunch of Fourier series on the page and hope it gives you something reasonable eventually.
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Yeah partial diff eqs are r-slurred and no engineers will deal with them unless they are fully forced to
Just make some assumptions, turn it into an ODE, then slap some error bars on it
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Yeah I'm not that good
I haven't even had to do a derivative at work ever
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Yeah Iโm a software engineer now so I donโt even see equations anymore but I used to be a chemical engineer
Speaking from experience from the latter. But no one solves equations by hand anyways so most PDEs just get put into MatLab anyways. But back of the hand calcs yeah PDEs are a no go
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Oh sweet I'm a chemist, I had to take it for quantum mechanics
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Yeah thankfully in chemistry thereโs not many PDEs, like kinetics stuff is what Iโm thinking of. I assume you donโt use quantum chem in your actual job right
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You should encounter PDEs as a software dev if you are doing any computational engineering.
But I agree, most PDEs that you encounter during your job are not solvable analytical, but numerical. So all the shit "learn to solve them" goes out the window.
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Yeah, back in HS I was r-slured at maths I scored like 2/20 in tests and stuff and I just thought I was too stupid to do HS maths.
But then I still needed math to finish HS so I legit studied on a regular basis for 1 month and that is all it took for me to pass with an 11/20 in the national exams
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It's purely socio-economic factors.
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Everyone is bad at math its just autists would rather sit there and face punishing problems then deal with regular society
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