When DD9 picks up a pencil, her brain freezes. At least, that is how she describes it to me. With dysgraphia and stealth dyslexia, both just recently diagnosed, she developed an intense fear of making mistakes. To this day, she has such anxiety when she has to write anything that she is sometimes paralyzed by the easiest of tasks. Math is especially hard for her, because not only does she struggle to make the numbers correctly but she also has to keep her columns straight. Add in ADHD that prevents her from concentrating well enough to make it through an entire math problem on her own and she pretty much just gives up before she starts.
BUT... ask her how to do the work out loud and she will blow you away with her reasoning skills. So frustrating for them.
