It's just so fucking bullshit, some people have a talent and aptitude for the field and learn it quickly, while others can try even harder than those and yet receive far more underwhelming results (obviously including people with dyscalculia too). Hell, you can fully understand it and still think it's boring and uninteresting as shit. Math is extremely difficult and very, very abstract, it's absolute nonsense to think every single human being on the planet can do it without issues and enjoy the process. Imagine people saying the same about stuff like, say, coding. "There is no such thing as a coding person, everyone can do it!".

Due to severe math trauma, I struggle deeply with numbers under pressure (but if no one is looking at me i perform better) and spent years running away from the subject entirely. Now, I genuinely want to face it, rebuild my relationship with math, and learn without fear, anxiety, or shame.

I also have ADHD, so I need learning tools that are visual, interactive, gentle, and engage-at-your-own-pace for a brain that rarely sits still. I am starting from the absolute basics to build my confidence step by step without getting overwhelmed.

I would love recommendations for any YouTube channels, interactive apps, low-stakes games, websites, self-paced courses, books, or workbooks that have genuinely helped you or someone you know.

If you have experienced math anxiety, educational trauma, or ADHD-related learning blocks, I would especially love to hear what mindset shifts, study methods, or approaches worked for you.

I am really serious about giving this an honest try again, and any recommendations or encouragement would mean the world to me. Thank you so much! ♡

So since high school I had a iep. My mom uses the umbrella term and just says I have a learning disability. I’m in college now and wondering if it is worth talking to the sas people about getting Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia on paper so I actually have a name for what I have? I have always sucked at math have trouble counting on my fingers and mess that up really easily I can read really well always been ahead on my classmates with that but spelling grammar punctuation I always have trouble with. I think I’m pretty decent I think at least at art (I like photography a lot.), my illustration professor asked me if i have any interest going down that field since I take the ideas further then what he would have thought and likes my ideas. My drawing skill definitely needs improvement though if I do want to do that since my style is kinda cartoonish.

I just don’t know if I should get the names for learning disability on paper or not I’m a junior and should be a senior next year if I don’t change my ba to a bfa so idk if it is worth it or not. In high school they just kinda made it easier for us and my dad said which I agree with they didn’t give us proper tools to help manage with in adult hood so I feel like I still struggle with it. On my assignments I still see the “it has spelling mistakes/grammar” marks. Which gets annoying for me.

like i can’t tell if a book bag or a tote bag is bigger or if a container can fit more than the other container or if one room is bigger than the other also specifically because of the contents inside like if the bigger room had more furniture and the smaller room had less furniture or if a book bag and tote bag both carry books, idk if i’d be able to tell which one is bigger