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.
It could be a case of discalculia.
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.