redditors make up a new disorder to cope with being r-slurred
If weβre supposed to believe that thereβs all these disorders that prevent people from functioning as normal, why do we also have to pretend that these people are just as good as the rest of us and have the right to vote etc? Seriously either cope with whatβs wrong with you or stop pretending like youβre my equal
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This is part of why I hate nerds. Wow Iβm so much smarter than everyone else but oh Iβm useless and canβt even solve a simple integral. Durr.
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Sometimes I used to switch numbers around accidentally, but other than that Iβm good at math and all that means is that I had to exercise more attention to detail when working problems.
Kinda resolved itself. Wonder what kind of clusterfrick my life would be if I let some bluehair convince me it was a disability and the only thing for me to do was NEETmax and collect SSDI.
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I was shit at math but I studymaxxed when I was 16 because I wanted good standardized test scores so I could get money
I switched every thing around. Then I started investigating and tabulating every error I made in a notebook and wrote down what kind of error I made. Within one week I was 30-something% better at math despite barely understanding the concepts better. I just became more consciously aware of not missing negative signs until it became an internalized behavior I didn't have to think about.
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People with dyscalculia actually can't even count with their hands.
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Its real though https://www.dyscalculia.org/
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Oh I definitely had dyscalculia as a child but just like with dyslexia you have to push through it and work extra hard on it instead of becoming complacent and whining about it.
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This reminds me this month I found out that I am not actually r-slurred. I just had self esteem so low it was affecting my thinking ability.
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I sucked at math for my first few years in school, then I learned to pay attention, how apply the knowledge I was receiving, how to ask for help when I didn't understand something, and that to get good at anything, I'd need to spend some time of my own practicing it. Years later, half of all my working days are spent doing reasonably advanced math. There's no pathology at work here, if you just stop being a frickup, and focus a bit, things generally work out.
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Reddit neighbors can't rotate a cube in their heads
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The "it's never my fault" people are getting more advanced in their excuses.
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Counting with your hands in highschool lmao. Even the kids at the sped table were more capable.
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People always talk about "normalise this" and "destigmatise that" - maybe it's time to normalise being fricking stupid. Destigmatise intellectual inferiority.
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Snapshots:
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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Math books can get fricked when they used t as a random variable. A handwritten t looks like a + unless you get all fancy with it. Likewise, using x as a random variable.
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i'm not stupid
i have a mental illness
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Lol I "use hands when counting" on uni level math. Simply makes it easier to visualize, but also force of habit.
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Even though doing long division by hand is useless...how? Its so mind-numbingly simple a child could learn it in an hour.
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Dyscalculia is a thing, but most people who think they have it are just r-slurs who got diagnosed because their mum couldn't accept her shit parenting and chronic vino addiction resulted in a sub-average kid.
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What's 9 + 10
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it's totally a real thing guys i have it ok i'm not just a dumb dip butt who can't count higher than 10 without taking off my shoes
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Every problem is another mental illness. Like collecting badges lmao. Heaven forbid people take some responsibility or face the fact that they may need to work a tiny bit harder than others to be good at something.
Let me get this straight. In your tiny worldview - people acknowledging, accepting, and understanding their mental illness is a bad thing? It's not always solved by "working a tiny bit harder". Sometimes it's a disability/illness that requires learning how to approach something completely differently. People like you that assume that mental illness/disability is the evasion of responsibility and work is pure idiocy.
Having a mental disability isn't fun. Not being able to see things in the same way or approach problems in a way normative society dictates is acceptable isn't convenient. People like you that stigmatize mental issues are a huge contributor to this ridiculous perception.
At least educate yourself before making absurdly stupid statements like this.
educate yourself sweaty
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educate yourself
What an ableist demand! Who knows how many learning disabilities the person reading this has!
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not disagreeing with u but the post- its not even a mental illness. its neurological. they have it all wrong
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what's the difference? I thought all mental illnesses were neurological.
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idk, all I know is that apparently it's in the DSM-5 so it's a real thing.
Of course that's not going to stop me from making fun of people who can't tell if 69420 or 42069 is bigger lol
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nope. theres psychological (most mental illnesses), and neurological. for example schizophrenia and adhd are listed as both psychological and neurological because the symptoms fall into both categories, and are partly caused by structural issues in the brain
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Have to agree with redditors on this one, being dumb is a disease.
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Is this a disability? π¦
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I'm pretty certain i have this. I've legitimately cried full on snot and everything after a exam in college at the age of 26.
waterboarding could not get me to embarrass myself like this in a public space online who normalized going to strangers and telling them everything about your pathetic life
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I'm failing my math class so hard right now. It's like my brain just won't let me remember the formulas and how to basically do anything.
So youβre just dumb? Got it
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I thought i was shit at math and then I came to America.
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Why do so many Americans struggle to make it but poor immigrants come here and can thrive? It's because their competition are Americans
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Same here. Elementary, and some of middle school math was shit for me, but by the time I turned 12 or so, just as the subject started to get a bit challenging, my grades got pretty good.
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