Finding an Aspie friendly major when you suck at math

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My major is English-Creative Writing because it is what I love. Therefore, I enjoin you to take up a major which involves a topic that you love. I think it would be preposterous to follow a major just because it fits a stereotype of one's diagnosis. You mentioned your interests, go for them. Not to mention that I would love to see other aspies take interest in liberal arts oriented subjects. Follow your passion!

I am a math major because I can't handle how vague some of the things you learn in other majors. I personally don't think that your major will decide your life and tend to view college as a place to learn what you enjoy.

I think you should take some more classes or sit in on some to help you decide. Also ask your professors and peers.

How about something to do with Art or Music?
Geography and History seem like good options, too.

Agree 100%.

I'm reasonable at understanding maths, but it never was my favourite subject. It bores me to hell. My last high school maths class put me off the subject for good. I did do Physics, sucked at it because it was too focused on the maths, without much understandable explanation.

Not necessarily--I was a math major and found it to be useless in my work life. Math at the college level is very different with all the proofs and simulations instead of formulas and calculations. It's the heavy programming skills or the knowledge of how to design which would have been more in demand in my line of work, but with the unstable job market it's hard to predict what major will be more useful by the time you graduate and sometimes it's just timing or who you know. So I'd go along with the people encouraging you to follow your own passions and use the opportunity to explore your options...

I made a big mistake by avoiding humanities based majors and choosing a technical degree so I could get a job more easily. In fact this course had a lot of group work which was very stressful, although I did get a good degree. The only thing I worry about now is finding a job where team work isn’t such a big feature. I am beginning to discover this is impossible. I am now going to study a creative degree so I can spend more time working on my own projects and discussing my ideas with others when I need to.

What is your technical degree?

I am in a technical school now, so that I can more easily get a job, but I hope to obtain a four year degree and Master's degree later on. I made good grades in my coursework at the four-year college I had been attending, so academically it would not be too hard.

Actually I studied a BSc Urban Planning. I don't know whether that's very technical, but there was a lot of group coursework, and it was pretty awful. There are a lot of jobs because of the speed of development around the world, but that will change because of the economy.

I just thought I could learn a skill that would set me up for life, but it’s hard to use my skills due to NT group dynamics.

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I just chose History as my major. I was an Special Education Major for a little while, but I changed it after I realized, it's sort of a people person type of major and job.

Well don't do economics or accounting then.

I had a similar predicament, I've always been interested in science, but "suck" at math. A lot depends on what you enjoy, and what you want to do as a career. If I could go back and redo college in terms of career, I would have majored in sociology, psychology (though I wouldn't have wanted to be a clinical psychologist-- probably just a social worker), or education. I would avoid the straight liberal arts majors like literature because it's very difficult to find a job afterwards, unless you live in a city/ near law or financial firms where there are proofreading jobs available. I did study linguistics quite a bit. Until you hit advanced syntax, you don't really need math.

I suck at math, so I'm a business major. Plus my school has a pretty good business program.

I also suck at math. What are you're interests? If they are economically viable interests, then by all means, pursue them.

Is Business extremely hard? I plan on going for that at Brown University or Harvard.