Back in the day, ADHD was called minimal brain dysfunction, which I think captured some aspects of the profile fairly accurately, but also gave people the mistaken impression that people with this kind of cognitive style weren't truly educable. (In some communities, institutionalizing persons with ADHD was a serious consideration.) I suspect that the lack of access to quality math instruction, on top of a likely untreated math disability (dyscalculia), probably kept your math achievement lower than it could have been. I bet you're better at math than you think you are.
I do think we all have some pretty weird brains in this family!
And not just in your family!
