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I tried to explain ADHD math to someone and they didn't understand at all (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: it appears that this is not exclusive to ADHD.

Posting this meme stemmed from my own efforts to explain my thought process when doing math and how it is similar to other people with ADHD doing math, while being different from every neurotypical person I'd talked to on the same subject.

While I didn't make the meme itself, instead finding it in my saves and wanting to share, I did accidentally spread misinformation that I had only backed up with personal anecdotal evidence.

I'll leave this up just so people can see the explanation below but this appears to not be ADHD related and just due to different people doing math in their heads differently...

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit balls I feel seen!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In my head: 7 + 6 = 7 + 7 = 14 - 1 = 13

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For anything times 5, I just take the other number, half it, and then multiply by 10. Voila. Times 5.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ha! You made me think the exact same phrase twice!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you know those five intuitively, adding and subtracting become automatic even with adhd.

1 + 9 = 10

2 + 8 = 10

3 + 7 = 10

4 + 6 = 10

5 + 5 = 10

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can solve this one with redneck math. You simply flip the numbers in 7+6 upside down, which looks like 4+9, which is clearly 13.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dude trying to get it from first principles!
Which is what I also lean towards. Give it to me step by step and I need to clearly map out each one... then the mind wanders and when I snap back to attention, I've lost the plot already, my mathematical surroundings are unclear, disorienting.

Add to this an erratic series of math teachers - some of them good, some of them blah - and this day trigonometry to me is a jumbled mess, but I loved calculus and was pretty good at probability and statistics.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Maven Yet another "wait, normal people don't do this" moment for me...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These ADHD memes hitting a little too hard

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Omg i think I have adhd

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

I've got an idea for a meme for you:

ADHD be like: Man puts on pants

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