Quote from: Joelene9 on December 27, 2012, 07:53:28 AM
  I had to treat myself while in school.  It was not known back in the 1960's.  The first thing I got right was the spelling in elementary school then the reading, but the phonics I figured out later.  But some of the number or alphanumeric combinations I do get wrong to this day.  It was my Home Room/Astronomy teacher/counselor who discovered my condition in my senior year and helped me through my senior year. 

  Joelene

I was the same. At school in the 60s. I must have spent more time writing words with the correct spelling, over and over, than almost any other pointless activity. But still, words just don't work and when I tried to read long texts the words swirl around making little sense. It's a wonder I was ever educated at all. though to be honest, most of it came after I left school.

The first time it was suggested to me was a guy at a disablement resettlement centre who noticed I sometimes put letter in the wrong order and sometimes back to front. He taught me quite a lot about writing and numbers, over about 4 weeks and with that I managed to get a load of A and O levels and be accepted to University. Didn't go though, hated it.

But that is something else that, hopefully, our children will not need to deal with.

I spend a number of years, mainly in the 70s typing my thoughts and ideas onto paper, because my hand writing is also illegable. I started using a small dictionary made by a company called Letts. It's about 4" x 3" and about an inch thick. Got pretty good at looking up words with one hand. Though it only worked when I knew the spelling was or might be wrong.

Now, I live for my spell checker.

Quote from: spacial on December 27, 2012, 11:18:45 AM
Now, I live for my spell checker.

All hail the mighty spell checker, where would we be without it.

With me, I almost always scored between 0~50 and sometimes 0~75 on the female side for the tests.

At least concerning overall mathematical ability, boys and girls seem to perform about the same in middle school, and only 1% of the difference in performance that appears in high school is between genders (the other 99% of the variation is within genders) and can plausibly be attributed to social factors rather than biological ones.

Given the use of the term "opposite sex" and my own variation in personal experiences with others depending on how manly/girly I look, I'm inclined to look at this piece as stereotypical fluff grasping for biological reasons when social factors and individual variation goes a longer way to explaining "differences" that emerge.

It's not to "not have a sense of humor," but when the BS/falsehood : "hidden truth" ratio is really high, it's hard to enjoy it.  In theory I could laugh at how stereotypical the article is, but even that joke is overdone.

Quote from: DianaP on December 27, 2012, 09:52:40 AM
So HRT does affect your math abilities, just in a good way? 

I have no problem with this... maybe it would help for those times I code myself into a wall, too.

Quote from: EmSchuma on December 27, 2012, 12:38:54 PM
I have no problem with this... maybe it would help for those times I code myself into a wall, too.

Design plans! Solid design plans! No code before the design is done!

Quote from: Alexia6 on December 27, 2012, 07:52:31 AM
You could also try these test just for the sake of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/interactives/personality/brain_sex/brainquiz.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

A lot of it though has been disproved as there are women who excel at tasks that were supposedly male brain oriented while a lot of men excel at tasks which are supposedly female oriented

I've looked at some of these before (just for fun, of course!).  I feel like I can't trust myself because I know the kinds of things they're looking for (and sometimes I'm a perfectionist and insist on retrying them until I score 100%...)

Quote from: Emily52736 on December 27, 2012, 12:50:37 PM
Design plans! Solid design plans! No code before the design is done!

I have a design in my head!  And then I come up with something that sounds better 6 months later but when I open vim I have no idea where to start... so I come here instead.

They say you can never hire many men for Language Teachers without effort and it is hard to get many Math Teachers that are female. Must be some truth that.

But I do know this much. The way to a man's heart is through his stomache, and if that fails, he's recently had something to eat and you take off his pants if you want anything from him. The way to a woman's heart is her ears, because you need to say what she needs to hear. And she won't want to hear, 'want to have sex'.

Everyone wants something though. The moment you discover what it is, you own them. It might sound like my male half just wants sex all the time, but in truth, the only thing you need in order to own my male half, is to put him in a functioning wood working shop. Me, I guess my price unattainable. I want to be female.