Dysmathic?

[khepriamon]

Anyone who has followed my erratic adventures so far knows that numbers and I have a love-hate relationship. I am now wondering if there is a syndrome relating to numbers as dyslexia relates to letters and words

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[aspasia93]

I have often wondered the same thing about numbers. If I actually make an arithmetic mistake, 90% of the time it involves writing 4 when I know it's 5 or 5 when I know it's 4; the other 10% -- it's 4, 5, and 9 that get hosed for each other. Never any other numbers. For me, it almost seems paraphasic because I can be copying down a telephone number -- verbally repeat the correct numbers back, but my hand writes the wrong number on the page and I can see that it's plainly wrong.

Then again, I also have frequent verbal paraphasia with my migraines, so it could all just be my migraines...

[tisiphone]

Dyscalculia. Yes.

[khepriamon]

According to the Infallible Source, one of the effects of dyscalculia is "Difficulty with games such as poker with more flexible rules for scoring." This would account for my repeated losses in Las Vegas which, up to now, I had attributed to simply not knowing enough not to draw to an inside straight.

[tisiphone]

It is an admittedly useful excuse.

(My sister has it. She can do statistics but can't add reliably. It's a weird, weird thing.)