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Yes. Many people have found he did very poorly at the *mechanics* of arithmetic (in school and later) but was a genius at logic and theory. Most people with dyscalculia don't have trouble with the logic and so on (physicist Emma King has dyslexia and dyscalculia), only processing the numbers.

From the WHO:

"The deficit concerns mastery of basic computational skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division rather than of the more abstract mathematical skills involved in algebra, trigonometry, geometry, or calculus."

Wikipedia sums it up as a "learning disability which affects a person's ability to understand, remember, and/or manipulate numbers and/or number facts (e.g. the multiplication tables)."

Ha ha. I have dyscalculia myself. And, just as stereotypically, I can totally do all the logic and theory and so on, but when it comes to numbers, they won't stay still in my brain. I write them backwards, upside down, can't sequence, can't add them without using my fingers or check marks, and so on. I also still don't know right from left without having to pause and think about it for a minute. I'm 27 years old. sweatdrop

I'm going to the disability offices at the college on July 3rd to get extended test times and, hopefully, permission to use a calculator or printed tables. My sister is majoring in math (and possibly astrophysics), and used to work at the college I'll be attending as a math tutor, so she is really helping me figure out what I can do in order to succeed.

My fiance double-majored in math and physics, too, so he's going to tutor me.

Death by books is the only way to go. heart

*head pat* It'll be fine.

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I have a love hate relationship with science.
Yesterday I wanted to kill everyone because of electrolysis. But today I'm thinking chemistry FTW.

This is about as interesting as my life gets atm. emo

WHEE! It'll be a smashing good time.

This week in general is going to be made of copious amounts of awesome. I might just explode.

Holy crap!
I love the radiant prism!

I'm going to save for it. 3nodding

I love my parents. I went home this weekend to get rid of a load of junk from my room in preparation for redecorating it. It's being done for the first time in ten years, because I loved the colour scheme so much it didn't cross my mind to change it. And well, I've been more or less moved out for 3 years and Mam wants to use the room as a spare room when I'm not around.

So she thought it would be nice if I made a wallhanging to cover the pale spots on the panelling. Where the posters had been the wood didn't tan. So she wants me to make something for the room, and imagines it'll take a couple of winters.

She also said she was going to get Dad to install book shelves on one wall. I've been stacking my books under the stairs since I was 11. Bookshelves? Bookshelves??? YAY!