AddaptAbilities

One of the lesser known Dyscalculia Happy Fun Features is that we often struggle with sports.  We can’t remember rules, or plays, or what side of the field we’re supposed to be on.  While it’s been years since my last gym class, THANK THE GODS, I recently encountered this again when watching a World Cup [...]

Geek Pride Day was May 25. I wrote this post yesterday, and then forgot to hit “publish”. Whaddya want? I have ADD!

As I wrote at Well-Ordered Chaos yesterday, my blogging plans have been laid waste by the goddam flowering olive trees outside my house.  They’re trying to kill me, I swear.  So [...]

As I wrote over at Well-Ordered Chaos, I had grand plans for finishing my 2009 blogging with a bang, but life intervened in the form of deadlines and unexpected dentistry.

I’m now out of town visiting family, and won’t be blogging for the rest of the year. When I return in 2010, I’ll be following [...]

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.  I’m getting over a cold, so I’ll be spending the holiday resting as much as possible while enjoying family and friends.  I hope you all do the same.

So, it looks like I’ll be dropping the melatonin from my new regimen.

I’d noticed over the last several days that my asthma seemed much worse.  I’ve had asthma for years, but since I’ve gotten organized and housekeepy, I’m generally able to control it to the point where I don’t need to carry inhalers.  There are [...]

Dysclaculia is highly heritable, according to this study done in 1997:

Although results obtained from recent twin and adoption studies suggest that individual differences in mathematics performance are due in part to heritable influences, no genetic analysis of mathematics disability (MD) has been previously reported. In this article we present data from the first twin sample [...]

A question was posed recently about the causes of dysclculia.  My response got very long, so pared it down on the forum, but I’ve posted it in its entirety here.

What I’ve read suggests that neurological differences (dyscalculia, dyslexia, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders) are highly heritable.  I haven’t read any primary sources, so I don’t [...]

In the first installment of this series, I began to describe the difficulties dyscalculics often have with formal music education.  While I emphatically do not believe the cultural trope that “music is all about math” — it’s about SOUND, people — the way it’s taught in the West is all about mathematical relationships.

In music theory [...]

I had one of my Little Moments earlier today that serves as an excellent parable to illustrate inattentive ADD.

If you’ve been reading the news crawl on CNN or Google or pretty much anywhere, you might know that a coastal rainstorm is hitting CA pretty hard right now. We don’t get that much rain here. [...]