Every time I remember that Terri Minskey made TJ have dyscalculia I get so emotional. I watched that show as a college student and still cried when he said that he was struggling with it because it was the first time I had ever seen it represented in a kids show. I had seen dyslexia shown in shows before, but never this specific version dyslexia. I was treated like I just wasn’t trying in school, when really I couldn’t tell some of the numbers apart or I switched them around. I really wish I could have seen that as a child. I remember always thinking my brain was just broken and that I was stupid. I wasn’t diagnosed with it until senior year of high school, so I never got to get the help I needed. If I had a show like Andi Mack as a child I would have felt so much more normal and maybe I would have known what was wrong so I could have gotten help. This is why representation fucking matters.
