I'm not denying that there are different skill sets at work, nor that different people will have different abilities. I hate to sound crotchety, but I think a lot of people say that they are incapable of math (or have a disorder) when they simply haven't been taught or haven't put in the work to practice. Or just plain don't like it. Some people don't like reading for a whole host of reasons, and so it goes with math. Some people are also ignorant and poor with computers, but we haven't made up a disorder for that (yet). It's a similar family of skill sets, too, and the reason I think we do see more women who have trouble with math and computers and gadgetry is that there's a social idea that many of them get that they can't take chances or experiment with that sort of thing; most of these women are scared to screw up, whereas the men aren't as much.

And it's not that I think dyscalculia is entirely fake, but there's a lot of exaggeration going on. I had a difficult time with math in elementary school when they kept trying to teach math using more abstract concepts or rote memorization. Once they quit that and started being more upfront and number and logic-based ideas, I excelled. Was I suddenly cured of some disorder? Uh, no. The way the subject was being taught changed and also some of the pressure lifted.

A lot of people freak out about math when it's not that scary. It's actually reassuringly consistent compared to some other subjects.