I was diagnosed with a LD as an adult and it could have changed my whole education experience.

I was fortunate enough to go to an excellent high school in an affluent community. I was in some advanced and AP courses and excelled in the performing arts. However, I struggled with algebra. In fact, I never passed it in HS. I was awarded a scholarship for performing arts at my state university under the provision that I would start on academic probation because of my math grades and I would have to take HS level algebra. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to perform because of this and the pressure and shame was too much for me and I dropped out after my freshman year. Fast forward 10 years and my girlfriend is in grad school for counseling. While studying the DSM-5, and knowing my history, she has a conversation with her professor about me. She said it sounded like I was dysnumeric. I did some research and it really explains so much. It's frustrating to think that I had a learning disability all this time and was never able to work through it or get help. I feel it really effected my academic life and in turn, my future. It's also very humbling to think if someone in my situation fell through the cracks, that so many others never had a chance.

tl;dr I found out later in adulthood that I was dysnumeric and I feel it had a profound effect on my life.

Submitted March 20, 2017 at 05:55AM by smartlikefox http://ift.tt/2nrMoBh