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Desrtopa comments on What bothers you about Less Wrong? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 08 June 2011 04:11:40PM 1 point [-]

It could be a case of discalculia.

Comment author: persephonehazard 08 June 2011 05:01:16PM *  1 point [-]

That's certainly entirely plausible, and something my mother (a primary school teacher of a quarter-century's experience, who's known a lot of children well) has always suspected. I've never had it checked out, though. Maybe I should.

ETA - particularly as I've just had a look at the wikipedia article and every single thing in the symptoms list applies to me to some degree. I'm even a pretty good writer. Good grief.