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The word dyscalculia is something I did not know existed until 2003. It is amazing to me as an adult that I only discovered the name for what I have lived with on a daily basis all these years thro...voir plusThe word dyscalculia is something I did not know existed until 2003. It is amazing to me as an adult that I only discovered the name for what I have lived with on a daily basis all these years through ÔsurfingÕ the Internet and finding an American web site that talked about difficulties with mathematics. On this site I had an instant rapport with what I was reading. It struck me instantly Ð I recognized me!
Distinctively Australian
I was born in January 1962 in the small town of Gunnedah in New South Wales, Australia. The climate is extremely hot and very dry in summer. I remember when I was young how the dirt roads would billow pink clouds of the bull dust kicked up by the large road trains carrying brown sheep to the local abattoirs. The huge paddocks filled with waving golden wheat and pink galahs surrounded our little 580 acre farm. The farm is now sadly gone, but the old house still stands, though its new owners now have horses not sheep, and there is no longer any wheat.
The roads are all tarred now, and the bull dust is restricted to the drought-stricken hills on the outskirts of the town. To describe what growing up in a small country town in New South Wales was like it is easiest to simply say, ÒGunnedah is so hot and dry that in the paddocks the sheep simply suck rocks to surviveÉÓvoir moins
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