Just to mix it up a bit further: I was actually diagnosed late with dyscalcululia (hate that word and I know I have it wrong) when i was playing guinea pig for another psych student. I ended up with that little gem AND a brain damage profile, seems one usually goes with the other.

Now, a number of studies have shown that Bipolar I and Schizophrenia can mimic cognitive damage that happens with organic brain damage, or at least, reading it as a psychologist and not a MD that's what it looks like. So what does that mean for us? Is this progressive? Does this include all of us, the hereditary Beepers, or the ones who AREN'T? No dif? the math problems are interesting. I was usually very good at theory, i could spit our very good pictoral ideas of how to get the areas of things like the isudes of curves when I was quite young, but if I were asked to transform that into a mathematic expression - dead silence. My little voice would go dead. Hmmm.