I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.