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…
uhhhh that’s not how everyone does it?
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
That’s just called using heuristics, friend, though if ADHD impeded their progress in math, maybe ADHD people rely more on heuristics than neurotypicals do.
Yeah this is just math.
6=3+3, 7+3=10, 10+3=13
PS I had to edit this post because of typos.
7 is closer to 10 than 6 so we consider that 7 is really just a 10 with a size-3 hole in it and we fill that hole with 3 from the 6 giving a 10 with 3 left over which make 13.
Also not an ADHD thing.
That’s my strat too. Also confused what this has to do with adhd
This has nothing to do with ADHD… mixing up stuff is just confusing people
I’m sorry, but this is a silly statement. This is by no means an ADHD thing. It’s a pattern understanding or logic
I’m trying to teach my kid this. Not to use this specific method for addition, but recognize and understand patterns in math.
What most people misunderstand about mental illness diagnoses is that most people have most of these symptoms. It’s only when these symptoms overlap and disrupt your ability to *healthily function as an individual that they require a diagnosis and medication/therapy.
Edit: Added healthily as that’s the real distinction.
