I was the child who did really well academically, who became the adult who continued to do really well academically. I am currently undertaking my MA in Autism, distinctions at PGCert and a first class honours degree. However, when I reached the age of 7 and we were being taught to tell the time I struggled incredibly. I could not tell the time properly till I was well into my teens. I went from an automatic set 1 maths student (judged by others by my other academic abilities) to a set 3 maths student in 5 years. This resulted in a GCSE grade E maths in 1991, which was and remains a significant outlier to my other qualifications.
I am now a company owner. I get by on the numbers front, but struggle sometimes with creating quotes, and not under-charging or miscounting financial figures. I know I will have done at some point and it will have cost me. I rely heavily on a calculator, and hand as many numbers-based tasks to others that I can. I am a mental health trainer, so managing timings in the training room and putting people into groups can be difficult for me too. Such a basic numbers task but I still struggle.
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