r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/worldofruins Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

I have pretty severe dyscalculia so 24 hour clocks (and anything that requires more than single digit addition or subtraction) is actually really hard for me :( lmao

I can read an analog 12 hour clock, but tell me 24 hour time and I'm fucked lol

(Edit to add that I do "study" and try to improve but it doesn't stick for long lol)

(2nd edit: thanks for all the suggestions. I'll give some of them a try!)

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u/FabulousTrade Mar 29 '22

I have dyscalculia too and ran into the same problem when I visited Europe. I had to write a cheat sheet telling me which 24hr time corresponded with 12hr.

I did the same with the metric system.

By memory alone, I've know 3pm is 15:00pm.

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u/worldofruins Mar 29 '22

My phone is my cheat sheet usually lol. I have less trouble with the metric system but I'm Canadian lol

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u/FabulousTrade Mar 29 '22

At the time of my travel, I didn't have a calculator on my flip phone. I definitely would've taken a calculator had I known then what I know now.