I got the right answer. They still marked me as having failed. By Emma Kearns, Founder of Seren Neurodiversity Specialists I was nine years old. There was a maths test. I worked out the right answer - I checked, it was correct - but I had used my own method to get there, not the one the teacher had taught. I had failed. The answer was right. The thinking was sound. But the process wasn't the 'proper' one. That moment has stayed with me for over thirty years. Not because it wa