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…
Ha! You made me think the exact same phrase twice!
No, since 6+6=12, then because 7 is one more than 6, 6+7=13
14 & 6 = 6
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6-3=3, 7+3=10, 10+3=13
7 + how much is ten? 3
How much is left? 3
Ten plus however much is left = 13Wait I do that kind of math and I am not adhd?
I’m aspergers with adhd, so 🤷
This has nothing to do with ADHD… mixing up stuff is just confusing people
I try not to be all “that’s not ADHD that’s just normal” here but yeah this one has nothing to do with ADHD.
A Therapist told me that there is a lot of nonsense on the web, especially in the AuDHD space, and yeah it tends to go in a “you are a scorpio, you do X” way
I’m a scorpio and I do X all the time
This guy fucks X
And I try not to be all “I’m not ADHD and I do this” on this com, but it’s true.
One of the worst parts of the latest ADHD wave
For anything times 5, I just take the other number, half it, and then multiply by 10. Voila. Times 5.
This is a good approach, but for this example I break it up as:
7+6=7+3+3=10+3=13
I did 5 (+2) + 5 (+1) = 10 (+3) = 13
For me it’s:
6 is half a dozen, so 6+6=12, then 7 is 6+1, so 6+7 is 12+1=13
Dude trying to get it from first principles!
Which is what I also lean towards. Give it to me step by step and I need to clearly map out each one… then the mind wanders and when I snap back to attention, I’ve lost the plot already, my mathematical surroundings are unclear, disorienting.Add to this an erratic series of math teachers - some of them good, some of them blah - and this day trigonometry to me is a jumbled mess, but I loved calculus and was pretty good at probability and statistics.
@Maven Yet another “wait, normal people don’t do this” moment for me…
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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
I’ve got an idea for a meme for you:
ADHD be like: Man puts on pants
This has absolutely nothing to do with ADHD
I have no attention span and this is not how I do math.
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uhhhh that’s not how everyone does it?
It is. Some people find more common numbers easier to add, then just figure out the difference. People in this community love to call totally normal stuff “adhd logic.”
Nah, I’m down with the 9s. 9+6 is 15 so it must be 13
Nah that’s 8+8=16 so 16 -2 is 14. 14 -1 is 13, so 13. or as my maths teacher said. Wat? 1 point, negative 0.5 for incorrect formula 0.5 total. Even though it always worked!
Edit: Hell other ways to work it out. 7+7=13 logically vs my calculator so 5+5+5 = 15. 15 is incorrect why? because +5 is +2 more than necessary so 7+7 must equal 5+5+3 which = 13 or as my mental maths exam told me Fuck you! You Fail! Can’t do maths in 10 seconds then you are either retarded or have another mental issue, to the stupid class you go! (It wasn’t stupid class if those students got the support they needed they would have excelled!) (You had to pretend to be “normal” to make “academic progress”))
3+3 =6. 6 < 7 so 3+3+3+3 = 12 but 6<7 so 12+0.5+0.5 =13
7+6
You need 3 to get to 10. 3 left over. 10+3=13.
I’d split up the 6 into (3,3) in my head
Same thing as 7+3+3
Common core math calls that “friendly numbers”.
