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10 May 2015, 11:37 pm

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When I was a young child I was diagnosed as being ret*d... (although I believe that was only because so little was known about Asperger's back then)


I scored in the mildly ret*d range as a child so it was assumed I was not very smart. Then it was discovered I actually had a profound language delay and they were holding me back and I could have a education like normal students so I was finally able to be in mainstream.


Apparently, I "grew out" of it... Being told some of the stories about my childhood, I can understand I was not "usual", but ret*d? My dad was on the roof when I was 2, so I climbed the ladder and pulled myself up on the roof. I used to climb everything and Jump / Fall off... I could never throw a ball, I didn't really want to hang around with other kids. Dad still makes jokes to this day that I was diagnosed as ret*d and look how I turned out! I think he is only proud of me because I am 31 and already make more money than he did when he retired...



You can't grow out of being ret*d, if you all of a sudden became smart, it means you never had it to begin with. So your dad thinks being ret*d can be outgrown?

My parents always knew I was not ret*d because of the way I would problem solve and figure things out and the score never convinced them I was.


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11 May 2015, 9:44 am

I am hopeless at Mathematics, always have been. You know what though I have never been in a situation where I have needed, algebra, quadratic equations, calculus or logarithms in all of my 52 years. :roll: Complete waste of time for most of the population globally given how we use this subject on a daily basis. I have a perfectly good calculator on my phone and that does the trick. The only thing I think of when I say those words is getting whacked with a cane at school by ignorant teachers who thought I was lazy. All for something that is still next to irrelevant!! !

I hate the word 'ret*d' and am aware there is a campaign around stopping the use of that word in medical and diagnostic situations. I know it has a dictionary definition, but it is best dispatched to the bin because of the pejorative links it now has.

You are not ret*d my friend, you have a different skills set is all. You are in good company on here. Please try not to be hard on yourself.



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11 May 2015, 11:52 am

Ive always known I was ret*d.
In some way at least.



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11 May 2015, 2:29 pm

Math skill in of itself is no indication of mental retardation. I myself am considered quite intelligent by people who themselves are and anything past arithmetic is challenging. Algebra and on just don't click with me. I can understand abstracts in everything but complex numbers. People just have things they are not good at. It really is as simple as that.



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11 May 2015, 6:19 pm

sAMY wrote:
Realizes I can't even learn 7th grade math at 26 years old.Realized u have no education due to my autism.

I realize just how bad my social retardation is and I just want to die now.


Dyscalculia is not "retardation", any more than its better known sibling dyslexia. I've found that dyslexia gets all the press, and dyslexics all the help, while dyscalculics get virtually no help. That's been my finding as a fellow dyscalculic, anyway. Case in point: the stupid little spelling checker on my PC recognizes the words "dyslexia" and "dyslexic", but not "dyscalculia" and "dyscalculic".



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11 May 2015, 7:41 pm

RhodyStruggle wrote:
sAMY wrote:
Realizes I can't even learn 7th grade math at 26 years old.Realized u have no education due to my autism.

I realize just how bad my social retardation is and I just want to die now.


Well I discovered that this was how others saw me. I discovered that this was the reason why they basically gave up on bothering to provide me with an education after ninth grade.

Like you I'm guessing, math was my worst subject. Although my academic record had multiple issues preventing me from going to college. But that couldn't keep me out of community college, and I picked a program of study that guaranteed me admission to state university upon graduating from the community college as long as I maintained a certain GPA, which I worked my ass off and did.

When I got to the university, I ended up majoring in math. I did this for a number of reasons but a huge one was, I will admit, proving incontrovertibly that I was not only not ret*d but vastly superior to those who had thus dismissed me.

When life hands you lemons, manipulate the lemon's genetic sequence to create a plague capable of eradicating all life on the planet. (That's what they call thinking outside the box.)


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