I raise my head and when the professor calls on me I ask \u201cAre these real numbers?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She pauses and narrows her eyes, hand frozen in mid-motion on the chalkboard where she\u2019d been writing out the tables for the various ratios she was explaining. \u201cHow do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stand up and go to the front of the class, gesturing to the board. \u201cDo these numbers actually do what you\u2019re saying they\u2019ll do every single time, or are there situations where it changes?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I look back at the rest of the students. \u201cSee, I\u2019m not afraid to ask the stupid questions for the rest of you. You\u2019re welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The professor gives me a look. \u201cWhy would they change?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c<\/span>I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not good at math. Numbers don\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s a shift in her posture and attitude towards me, genuinely interested and concerned. \u201cDo you have trouble understanding or writing the actual characters?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I try to assure her that I am not dyslexic, that I actually have a facility with writing and language... but I wake up before I can finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n I lay there in the early morning dark, mildly frustrated that I wasn\u2019t able to let her know that it is just the abstract nature of math that I have trouble with and not some kind of disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I raise my head and when the professor calls on me I ask \u201cAre these real numbers?\u201d She pauses and narrows her eyes, hand frozen in mid-motion on the chalkboard where she\u2019d been writing out the tables for the various ratios she was explaining. \u201cHow do you mean?\u201d I stand up and go to the front [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[926,222,339,925,346,345],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","tag-blackboard","tag-classrooms","tag-college","tag-math","tag-professors","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcamp.com\/yesod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}