However, very much unlike Samantha Abeel's very strong and overt dyscalculia (which has also seemingly affected her spelling and grammar acumen and skills), I for one have ALWAYS been both a good speller (not orally, but definitely on paper) and almost at times anally logical and specific with regard to grammar and word semantics.

While I actually and indeed have never been tested for or diagnosed with dyscalculia, reading up on the latter (whilst researching my own relatively recent diagnosis of non verbal learning disabilities) has indeed convinced me that I probably do also have at least some aspects of dyscalculia present. For while My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir is both thought-provoking and intense and although I have in truth much appreciated being allowed to partake of author/narrator Samantha Abeel's thoughts and life story, and especially her struggles with dyscalculia, I am also and actually continuously noticing an at times rather majorly problematic and annoying 'my type of dyscalculia and my way of dealing with this challenge are the only acceptable way' mentality presented (an attitude I personally do VERY MUCH resent and find frustrating, if not even a bit potentially insulting in so far that learning challenges often and actually usually vary greatly from person to person and what for some might well be the case and might work for compensating or as coping strategies might not necessarily be the case or even an appropriate method for others, even for those struggling with, being faced with similar general problems and issues). Well I actually started reading Samantha Abeel's My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir in 2015, and then basically and promptly forgot all about it until just recently (which I think already amply demonstrates that while the subject matter of learning challenges, of specific special educational needs, and yes, in particular the math based disability of dyscalculia, might well have been of much personal interest to me, the book itself never really did manage to in any way engage me and I actually only finished My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir because I owned a copy thus wanted to complete the book).

My thirteenth winter