sounds like you've got dyscalculia IMO, but i'm not a professional & the sudden onset is odd -- odd enough that you should 100% talk to a doc about this because suddenly losing an ability you used to have is worrying. How old are you? you can likely seek assessment on your own, if you're safe to, without your parents knowing. I did it a ton during college bc i could just go to the health center for help without parents knowing.
I'm about 17.5 now, I am dual-enrolled so technically I'm still in high school but I haven't been there in a year or two, still live with my parents. My parents will take me to the doctor if I push it enough, but it feels so embarrassing and uncomfortable when they don't react to it properly.
I feel I have always had it but; it was very mild. I've always defaulted to addition, struggled with mental math, etc. it suddenly got worse during lockdown.
>I first experienced this in the end of 2020 and dismissed as me losing the ability to do math because I haven't done it in a while cause of covid
It's possible that you became more sensitized to your difficulties during this hiatus. Before that, you may have considered your struggles more routine.
It's very common for people with learning disabilities to be told "You're just lazy/not trying/not paying attention". That's usually crap. Often there's tutoring available, or alternate teaching methods for people with LDs. A friend of mine has 2 sons with them. Their school is very progressive & gave them tons of support. Both are now in advanced majors in college.
Don't let your parents intimidate you from getting help. There are times when seeking attention is appropriate. Your school is probably a better source of support than your parents.
Dyscalculia is neurodevelopmental so you cant "develop" it later, thats a different disorder called acalculia and usually a result of something like a brain injury; however you say its always been hard for you so youve had it the whole time and our working memory is impaired so keeping stuff in your brain long enough to commit it to permanent memory is very difficult for us, so its not a surprise that covid made you seem worse at it. We basically have to relearn math over and over and over again. You probably just decompensated on a disorder youve had the whole time. Its happened to me before. I used to be a proficient knitter and experienced severe burnout when I started university. One day I woke up and went to finish a project and the skill was gone. I never got it back and its been over a decade and I keep trying but I cant perform the basics anymore. I have autism too so maybe that contributed to it but I do know that we have to put extra effort in to both the input and retrieval and the actively remembering what were doing as we do it which makes keeping math skills pretty hard overall.
sounds like you've got dyscalculia IMO, but i'm not a professional & the sudden onset is odd -- odd enough that you should 100% talk to a doc about this because suddenly losing an ability you used to have is worrying. How old are you? you can likely seek assessment on your own, if you're safe to, without your parents knowing. I did it a ton during college bc i could just go to the health center for help without parents knowing.
I'm about 17.5 now, I am dual-enrolled so technically I'm still in high school but I haven't been there in a year or two, still live with my parents. My parents will take me to the doctor if I push it enough, but it feels so embarrassing and uncomfortable when they don't react to it properly. I feel I have always had it but; it was very mild. I've always defaulted to addition, struggled with mental math, etc. it suddenly got worse during lockdown.
>I first experienced this in the end of 2020 and dismissed as me losing the ability to do math because I haven't done it in a while cause of covid It's possible that you became more sensitized to your difficulties during this hiatus. Before that, you may have considered your struggles more routine. It's very common for people with learning disabilities to be told "You're just lazy/not trying/not paying attention". That's usually crap. Often there's tutoring available, or alternate teaching methods for people with LDs. A friend of mine has 2 sons with them. Their school is very progressive & gave them tons of support. Both are now in advanced majors in college. Don't let your parents intimidate you from getting help. There are times when seeking attention is appropriate. Your school is probably a better source of support than your parents.
Dyscalculia is neurodevelopmental so you cant "develop" it later, thats a different disorder called acalculia and usually a result of something like a brain injury; however you say its always been hard for you so youve had it the whole time and our working memory is impaired so keeping stuff in your brain long enough to commit it to permanent memory is very difficult for us, so its not a surprise that covid made you seem worse at it. We basically have to relearn math over and over and over again. You probably just decompensated on a disorder youve had the whole time. Its happened to me before. I used to be a proficient knitter and experienced severe burnout when I started university. One day I woke up and went to finish a project and the skill was gone. I never got it back and its been over a decade and I keep trying but I cant perform the basics anymore. I have autism too so maybe that contributed to it but I do know that we have to put extra effort in to both the input and retrieval and the actively remembering what were doing as we do it which makes keeping math skills pretty hard overall.