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Post by Lucere on Dec 17, 2004 10:55:33 GMT -5
So do you think procrastination is a big issue for dyscalculics and dyslexics? I find that I have a lot of anxiety about just THINKING about having to deal with my bills, my mail, budgets, etc. So I tend to put these things off for a long time, which of course makes things more difficult, later. Then I have to deal with the last minute panic of bill-paying, dealing with creditors, etc.
I'm thinking about the life-long anxieties and bad habits we develop in order to cope with dyscalculia. If someone ever puts together a training program for, say, financial skills for dyscalculics & dyslexics, I suspect one of the issues they will have to deal with is this habit of procrastination, putting things off.
In other words, the training would have to deal with psychological issues, as well as everyday practical issues.
What's your experience of procrastination? Or what other kinds of ways -- healthy or not healthy -- have you developed to deal with your dyscalculia/dyslexia?
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Post by ellyodd on Dec 19, 2004 14:52:44 GMT -5
Well, when I read your message I did a little procrastination myself I do that a lot. And for me it is because I can’t concentrate. Its not laziness. Sometimes it is because I don’t know how to do the thing I am supposed to do, and I simply can’t see an end to it, figure out how to do it. But most of the time, I know how to do it, like doing the dishes, but I simply cannot concentrate. I’m tired, stressed, irritated or something else. When I’m like that, I have to do nothing, and just wait till it passes – if I don’t procrastinate in that situation, I get so irritated and it ruins my day. BUT. I cant do that all the time, especially not when I have a job someday. I don’t know what to do about it. I thought about reading some books about stress handling, maybe there will be some useful stuff. I’ve also thought of writing everything down that I have to do, so that I at least have it on paper and not in my forgetful head. I have tried that, but I failed, probably because I didn’t do it long enough to make it into a routine. I do think that most people with learning disabilities have this problem.
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Post by Ettina on Feb 21, 2005 12:08:16 GMT -5
One thing I've heard some autistic people talk about is inertia. A description www.autistics.org/library/inertia.html. Often LDs and autism overlap to varying extents, and inertia has also been described by some as a form of LD(called executive dysfunction).
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Post by ellyodd on Feb 28, 2005 10:12:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, Ettina!
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Post by Lucere on Mar 2, 2005 20:29:37 GMT -5
Ettina: Sorry for the late reply, but thanks VERY VERY much for this link about "inertia." It made me realize that there's a framework we all put around this problem of "procrastination." That is, that it has a certain stigma attached to it. Because I teach, I've been thinking a lot lately about how to think of my dyscalculia and what I'm beginning to recognize as sort of extreme right-brain functioning, to better advantage in the classroom. I teach in a department where, despite the focus on humanities, most of the other grad student instructors and faculty seem to be pretty linear in their thinking (I can tell, just by talking to them). I'm not. Anyway.... I have a headache today, so I'm not going to attempt to get into this further. Maybe later...
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