I’ve realized that I have undiagnosed Dyscalculia for several years now, but I never bothered to do much research on it. I never thought it had anything to do with much other than my very annoying tendency to flip numbers around (makes dialing the phone a pain in the ass sometimes) and my lack of ability to do math in my head. (makes tipping a pain in the ass)

So, poking around Wikipedia last night (not what I’d call the definitive source, but a good enough place to start…), I was amazed to discover that it covers a large number of symptoms, most of which I have to various degrees, many of which I just assumed were little “Julie is weird” quirks. Some highlights:

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So, I had to stop by the grocery store on the way home from work last night, and Will decided to come in with me. No big thing. We’re going down one of the aisles and a woman roughly our age looks at me and (with no irony, and barely a glance at Will) asks me if she can borrow him to get something off a high shelf.

“Well, you could ask him yourself.” I say. Will, being the decent sort, didn’t make too much fun of her. He even got her bottle off the top shelf. He did, however, ask me (mockingly) for permission for everything for the next hour.

Maybe the lady was just trying to be polite, but if the situation were reversed, with a strange man asking Will if I could help him with something instead of asking me directly, it would be creepy. Acknowledging someone’s existence only as an appendage of someone else (instead of as an autonomous entity) is rude, Y/N?

And I do seem to be abusing parenthesis today.