Dyscalculia?

I'm wondering about dyscalculia.  Could it also apply where the person is actually very good at advanced maths, the point at which it really becomes its own language, with concepts that, from the outside at least, can seem very abstract, but struggles to, say, divide a cake into 6ths, work out a basic ratio (perhaps for a recipe) or generally develop a rough and ready sense of proportions and percentages in everyday life?    Or would that be something else?

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  • I was terrible at basic math, except I loved doing long division with pen and paper. So I was a strange one. 

    People used to say things like "you won't have a calculator with you all the time when you're older" or things like "You'll look dumb if you pull out a calculator to count money" when I was young, but now people have phones, and they use the calculator all the time. I guess it's not weird to use a calculator in public anymore. 

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