Is this a good test? I couldn’t do this.

But when the doctor asked him to count backward from 100, subtracting seven from each number — 100, 93, 86, 79 — a look of confusion washed over his face.

I also would count as drunk all the time to most cops as I can’t recite the alphabet backwards. Oh, I can I guess but it takes me about 20 minutes. Maybe more.

My mind just does not work in those ways. And with numbers especially, I am utterly lost. I probably could eventually do the counting backwards by sevens thing but it also would take me a very very long time too.

And yet I can understand very complex systems lickety-split. But ask me to do a math problem more complex than basic algebra, it’ll be an age of the universe before I finish it.