What is this disorder that complicates his life?

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“So I don’t know how to count and I don’t know how to add”: Larry Mullen Jr, drummer of the legendary group U2made this announcement to the media Times Radioearly December 2024.

The musician says he recently realized he had dyscalculia“a subversion of the dyslexia »as he himself explains. A disorder which must have made life very difficult for him when in concert, he had to keep the measures of With or Without you or from One.

Impaired ability to understand and use numbers

“When you watch me play, people sometimes say that I seem to be in pain. That's the case, because I'm trying to count the measurements,” confirms Larry Mullen Jr. Times Radio.

I had to find ways to do it and it's like climbing Everest.

According to the French Dys Federation, dyscalculia is an “impairment of the ability to understand and use numbers”. This disorder manifests itself in different ways:

• Difficulty counting;
• Difficulty counting;
• Difficulty immediately recognizing small quantities;
• Difficulty knowing oral and/or Arabic number systems;
• Difficulty switching from one digital code to another;
• Difficulty handling base 10 numeration;
• Difficulty representing a quantity analogically;
• Difficulty performing mental calculations;
• Difficulty writing down a calculation;
• Difficulty solving problems;
• Difficulty learning number facts such as a multiplication table;
• Difficulty performing an operation.

The repercussions are numerous and disabling: difficulty handling sums of money, handling figures and numbers… All the more reason to think that the group U2 is indeed legendary.

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