Daphne Deckers, like any other Dutch person, has a telephone number consisting of ten digits, but the presenter cannot remember it. “Just look it up.”
It sometimes seems as if Daphne Deckers is spared nothing at all. Not only is she highly sensitive, she suffers from drag inertia and in recent years she was affected by grease louse and a ganglion, but now she also appears to have the sister of dyslexia. “Dyscalculia: a faltering understanding of numbers.”
Daphne’s trauma
Daphne makes this personal revelation in her column in the Female. It has haunted the presenter all her life. “I got away with it in primary school, although I already thought then: I don’t understand numbers. I found them elusive, turned them over, and took forever to learn the tables.”
And then in high school? There, the adolescent Daphne often got the wind from the front. “I have been called lazy, rebellious, unruly,” she says. “Six years of maths at pre-university education – it still traumatizes me.”
phone number
Daphne still suffers from it today. “For example, I can’t remember my own phone number. That has already put me in some embarrassing situations.”
People then thought, for example, that Daphne did not want to give her number. “And so I regularly use the excuse: ‘Just look it up, because I have a new number.’”
Emotional
Fortunately, Daphne now knows what caused it. “I’m not lazy, my brain just works differently.”
And that explains the 3.1 for her final exam in mathematics. “I still get a little emotional when I think about it.”
