Posting this meme stemmed from my own efforts to explain my thought process when doing math and how it is similar to other people with ADHD doing math, while being different from every neurotypical person I'd talked to on the same subject.

While I didn't make the meme itself, instead finding it in my saves and wanting to share, I did accidentally spread misinformation that I had only backed up with personal anecdotal evidence.

I'll leave this up just so people can see the explanation below but this appears to not be ADHD related and just due to different people doing math in their heads differently...

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 months ago (2 children)

uhhhh that's not how everyone does it?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

7+6

You need 3 to get to 10. 3 left over. 10+3=13.

I'd split up the 6 into (3,3) in my head

Same thing as 7+3+3

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Common core math calls that “friendly numbers”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is. Some people find more common numbers easier to add, then just figure out the difference. People in this community love to call totally normal stuff “adhd logic.”