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Two stereotypes about us #Autistics is we like #PrimeNumbers and #EvenNumbers . I'm a “yes” and a “no”. (c.im)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Two stereotypes 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 5'7.5" to 5'8.5" (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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@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 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Waiting4Thunder

I never noticed that before - that's actually kind of cool.
The addition part is also true for 9x12=108.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@ScottSoCal @masukomi @youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @autism @pathfinder

you’ve lost me 🤣🤣🙂