#organising

My name is Freya but you can call me Frey. I currently live in London. I’m Welsh and was brought up in Cumbria from the age of 5. 🌾 For work, I’m in design engineering, working as a technician in a machine shop.

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🌸 Slightly more random childhood facts in no particular order… I grew up camping, travelling, climbing and skiing, catching frogs and building forts in the woods with my siblings. We loved water balloons, Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and air soft guns. Cozy coupe cars, jelly shoes, blacksmithing, the stars and alternative rock/grunge bands were my jam. I dreamed of living on a canal/narrowboat. I think the closest things to dolls that I really enjoyed was the doll house itself and Polly Pockets and what I enjoyed equally as much as playing with my toys was organising them 😂 I think I’m a type-A gal.

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I want a van life or something like that, it’s actually less about travel and more about simplicity. The less cluttered I keep my external life, the easier it is for me to think clearly. I’m more able to answer cliche but important questions. Knowing myself is something I really value and it makes me a better person to those around me. I feel much more present and at peace. 🤍

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I’m probably a classic 90s kid with a love of learning by doing.

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Sure thing!

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Well, to begin, dyscalculia is a disability and not a condition. It’s part of the Specific Learning Differences and it’s basically the same as dyslexia, but with numbers.

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With dyscalculia, the capability to automate processes of and with numbers is affected. This can result in different ways.

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1. People can have trouble recognizing and writing the number. It’s like the same when people with dyslexia have trouble recognizing a letter. It’s not automated, so it’s hard to simply call it up in your brain.

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I luckily don’t have this problem, however, I tend to miscall numbers, especially when there are two numbers together, for example 24. In English you say twenty four, but in Dutch you basically say ‘four and twenty’, so the opposite. I’ve always had trouble with that.

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2. People with dyscalculia can have a huge problem with automating formulas. It’s the same as with recognizing, they’re not stored well into the brain and it’s hard to get to it too.

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I have this. I can basically do + formulas with numbers up until 12. Anything above that is a mess and it becomes blurry and chaotic, but also empty in my mind. Very frustrating, considering I had YEARS of extra training and help.
Don’t even get me started on math lol.

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3. People with dyscalculia may have trouble telling the time.

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Luckily this one doesn’t apply to me. I do have trouble with time management though, which is also related to dyscalculia.

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4. People with dyscalculia may have trouble with spacial awareness.

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For example: having trouble to see and knowledge that there are three apples in a basket on the table. Without necessary having to count them.

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Due to the fact that dyscalculia is linked to executive functions, my long term and short term memory are affected. This means I have to write every task I need to do down, otherwise I’ll forget about it. I tend to take pictures and videos, these are my memory cues for later. I have trouble organising and planning and my inner-speech is affected. Which means I don’t have inner-speech unless I actively do so.

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If you have any more questions about this, please let me know! 😊

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