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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 11:57:01 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   One stereotype about us #Autistics is we like #PrimeNumbers and #EvenNumbers. I'm a “yes” and a “no”.

   I do like Prime numbers and Odd numbers:
   * 17
   * 13
   * 7

   17 is very special.
   * 17 is the 7th Prime
   * 1 is an odd number
   * 7 is an odd number
   * 17 is an odd number
   * 1 + 7 = 8, although an even number, it symbolises infinity and eternity, and us #ActuallyAutistics

   13 is also special.
   * A Prime
   * An Odd
   * A Fibonacci number

   And depending on whom you ask:
   * The 8th Fibonacci number
   * The 7th Fibonacci number

   Ironically:
   * The anniversary of my first romantic relationship was on: 1997-07-17. It was my first love who picked that, and she had no idea what my favourite numbers are.
   * My height is 175 cm or 5'75" to 5'85" (depending on whom you ask).
   * Favourite time of the day: 07:00 and 19:00 (7pm). 19 is the 8th Prime. (There's 8 again.)

   And I'm #OpenlyAutistic. ^_^

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   How about you? What two #Autism stereotypes is you and not you?

   @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism

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     lori (lori@cambrian.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 12:21:14 JST lori

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     @youronlyone 17 is an extra special number, as the 17-gon is one of the constructable regular polygons.
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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 12:30:40 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     @lori Wow! I had to read that! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptadecagon )

     Thank you for sharing!

     @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autistics @autism

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 22:04:31 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     @nellie_m Same! I'm poor with mental calculation, but I love the logic behind mathematics.

     LOL. I remembered (Grade 9 and 10) some of my exams wherein I failed because my solutions were weird. I did arrive at the correct answers, but getting there was what's graded more. (And my teacher then understood the way I think, so she showed me why I was wrong by testing my way against other rules. I really appreciated she explained it.)

     I don't like maths, but ended up being chosen as class maths teacher substitute in Grade 6. Our maths teacher saw something, I guess how I understand the logic behind it, even though I can't do mental calculations. (Don't even ask me about my multiplication table for 6, 7, 8, and 9. Hahahah.)

     @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

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     nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 22:04:36 JST nellie-m

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     maths was my poorest subject until we were allowed to use electronic calculators. Late 70s. And then suddenly, it became fun! I loved algebra so much. Being able to do maths with my good old friends: letters!

     At that point, I chose maths as a favourite subject even. I loved how unambiguous and logical and elegant it was. Just don’t expect me to do numbers.

     2/3

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     nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 22:04:41 JST nellie-m

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     @youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

     The relationship between numbers and my brain is one of mutual dislike.

     My brain doesn’t do them. I swear I don’t even know what numbers are. As a kid, I learned mental arithmetics like a poem. I recited it in every test, for every exercise. What I wrote was mostly correct, but time was always up before I had finished even half of it…
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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 22:17:54 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     @masukomi It's similar, memorize the big grid. But I can only do 1-5 and 10.

     I calculate 6, 7, 8, 9 by using my hands (I learned to visualise it mentally).

     Here's a video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Nr-f02AUY

     I can't get my head with the multiplication table for 6 to 9, but after someone taught me the hand way, it worked.

     @nellie_m @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

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     masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 22:17:56 JST masukomi

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     @youronlyone @nellie_m @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

     wait no. now i NEED to know about your multiplication tables for 6,7, 8, and 9. When i was taught everyone just memorized this big grid o numbers from 1 to 12. How did you do it?

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     Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀ (mishavanmollusq@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:25:20 JST Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

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     I had not encountered such a stereo type before

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:25:20 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

     @MishaVanMollusq Usually depicted in some shows/films, where the autistic character prefers their food to be even and/or in prime, otherwise, they'll throw a fit or won't eat.

     IRL, I've heard it said years back that people who love Primes, and if combined with Even numbers, are "more likely autistic". I guess it also stems from the stereotype that autistics are savant.

     @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism

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     Blitzen (waiting4thunder@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:26:13 JST Blitzen

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     • nellie-m

     @ScottSoCal @masukomi @youronlyone @nellie_m @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder fun trick, the lower times tables for 9 have products that would total 9 if the digits were added together and the first digit is the multiplier minus 1

     9x1=09 (1-1=0, 9-0=9, 0+9=9)
     9x2=18 (2-1=1, 9-1=8, 1+8=9)
     9x3=27 (3-1=2, 9-2=7, 2+7=9)

     This works up through 10!

     Memorization was the bane of my life as a gestalt style learner 😅

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     ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 (scottsocal@computerfairi.es)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:26:14 JST ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈

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     • nellie-m

     @masukomi

     Memorizing that grid of numbers didn't work for me, so I worked out other methods.
     x9, for example, I count down from 9x9=81. 9x6=
     81, 72, 63, 54 - ah, yes, 54.

     @youronlyone @nellie_m @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

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     Joanna McKenzie (jobob@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:27:22 JST Joanna McKenzie

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     @Waiting4Thunder @ScottSoCal @masukomi @youronlyone @nellie_m @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder you can do the nine times table on your hands. Hold up ten fingers. Put down the one on the left. You have 9. Put that one up, and the next down. You have 1, 8. Move the finger along, 2, 7, then 3,6 and so on.
     To get for instance 9 x 7 put down the finger 7 from the left, and you have 6 fingers on the left and 3 on the right!

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:33:12 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Joanna McKenzie

     @Jobob Wow! That is soooo coool!

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     not sam (samiam@lor.sh)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 05:48:39 JST not sam

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     @youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism I don't see how anyone can NOT like primes