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I tend to become very stubborn and irritable when thwarted. My latest thwarting involves DSHS and Vocational Rehabilitation. I am a highly educated, seemingly well adjusted person which apparently makes those people believe I am making shit up to get a free lunch. Nothing could be further from the truth.

This only makes me wonder how these people got through life. It also makes me wish sometimes I could trade my otherwise obscenely high IQ for an average IQ featuring basic comprehension of math and reading, rather than having high reading and writing skills and little understanding of math.

Math anxiety is a common problem. I have it. Yet it's no more than a symptom or subset of Dyscalculia. I am diagnosed as having "mild math disability" which is the long way of saying she has Dyscalculia. It's much easier to say mild and do nothing about it, than admit the problem might be worse and Voc Rehab would have to help me. If I had dyslexia, they would be screamingly happy to help me out. With math, not so much.

So today was an angry and maddening day being told once more there was nothing wrong with me and that I should go shuck oysters for the rest of my days.

I think I'm going to start charging for sex. How's 100.00 bucks sound? It's certainly sounds better than shucking oysters.

EDIT: Oh, and if you have ever said to me, "But I have problems with math too, you just have to try harder." Unless you have cried actual tears of frustration because you thought you understood something and forget it several minutes later, or never understand it, or have to count on your fingers or transpose numbers several times and do it consistantly then kindly STFU