I tried to explain ADHD math to someone and they didn't understand at all - eviltoast

Edit: it appears that this is not exclusive to ADHD.

Posting this meme stemmed from my own efforts to explain my thought process when doing math and how it is similar to other people with ADHD doing math, while being different from every neurotypical person I’d talked to on the same subject.

While I didn’t make the meme itself, instead finding it in my saves and wanting to share, I did accidentally spread misinformation that I had only backed up with personal anecdotal evidence.

I’ll leave this up just so people can see the explanation below but this appears to not be ADHD related and just due to different people doing math in their heads differently…

  • jinarched@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    If you know those five intuitively, adding and subtracting become automatic even with adhd.

    1 + 9 = 10

    2 + 8 = 10

    3 + 7 = 10

    4 + 6 = 10

    5 + 5 = 10