Post by admin on Dec 8, 2004 15:47:43 GMT -5
(Admin-note; This is taken from a comment to another introduction - I think this deserves a thread of it's one)
Hello.
I'm Lucere (yeah it's my online moniker), and I have a blog of the same name at lucere.blogspot.com/
It deals mainly with my trials and tribulations and sometimes discoveries relating to my dyscalculia, and trying to deal with my finances.
I've had problems understanding math and abstract, mathematical-like concepts just about all my life I guess. Like a lot of dyscalculaics (I suspect), I'm fairly driven, and also artistic. I'm a writer, and have been a visual artist. I'm in a Ph.D. program in literature at a large university in the U.S.
I couldn't pass the algebra courses in high school & in college, I finally got tested, and after that had to ask for accomodation for my learning disability, whenever math or language requirements became a barrier. I had to take the graduate language requirement over and over and over and over before I finally passed it (I think they passed me just from sheer exhaustion at having to see me take it over and over again). It was a totally humiliating process.
But the other thing that's really affected me is the fact that I've had a fear of dealing with financial matters, which created a lot of problems for me, in regards to credit, etc. I think my mother also had dyscalculia, perhaps worse than mine (and my father let her handle the money), and when my parents passed away, I inherited their significant financial debts.
So I've decided that, one way or another, now is the time for me to face the music, and somehow, some way, figure out a way to get solvent again. Right now I'm in a struggle to hold onto my parent's property, which the bank wants to foreclose on.
My project is to get the property re-financed, then work with my psychoanalyst (fortunately, she is charging me a very low rate) and credit counselors straighten out my credit record, and help me put together a budget. But of course it will be a challenge for me to just stick to a budget, with my dyscalculia.
Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, but that's where I'm at for now...
Glad to have found this forum! Thanks Mette!
Lucere
Hello.
I'm Lucere (yeah it's my online moniker), and I have a blog of the same name at lucere.blogspot.com/
It deals mainly with my trials and tribulations and sometimes discoveries relating to my dyscalculia, and trying to deal with my finances.
I've had problems understanding math and abstract, mathematical-like concepts just about all my life I guess. Like a lot of dyscalculaics (I suspect), I'm fairly driven, and also artistic. I'm a writer, and have been a visual artist. I'm in a Ph.D. program in literature at a large university in the U.S.
I couldn't pass the algebra courses in high school & in college, I finally got tested, and after that had to ask for accomodation for my learning disability, whenever math or language requirements became a barrier. I had to take the graduate language requirement over and over and over and over before I finally passed it (I think they passed me just from sheer exhaustion at having to see me take it over and over again). It was a totally humiliating process.
But the other thing that's really affected me is the fact that I've had a fear of dealing with financial matters, which created a lot of problems for me, in regards to credit, etc. I think my mother also had dyscalculia, perhaps worse than mine (and my father let her handle the money), and when my parents passed away, I inherited their significant financial debts.
So I've decided that, one way or another, now is the time for me to face the music, and somehow, some way, figure out a way to get solvent again. Right now I'm in a struggle to hold onto my parent's property, which the bank wants to foreclose on.
My project is to get the property re-financed, then work with my psychoanalyst (fortunately, she is charging me a very low rate) and credit counselors straighten out my credit record, and help me put together a budget. But of course it will be a challenge for me to just stick to a budget, with my dyscalculia.
Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, but that's where I'm at for now...
Glad to have found this forum! Thanks Mette!
Lucere
