Asperger's and the math stereotype

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I hate that stereotype. I'm so sick of hearing "I wouldn't be good at math if it weren't for my AS" "My AS makes me good at math"

Especially when I am reading books and they use a character with AS as an example and bam that aspie's favorite subject is math. Why can't it be something else like writing, English, art, reading, social studies, history? But instead it always has to be science or math and it makes it look like that is something all aspies are good with.

I fit the stereotype pretty well. There are some things I can figure out in my head before people around me have time to type it into their calculators. It makes me feel good to be better then a machine

I'm pretty good at math, and always get teh high test grades in my class. I'm by no means brilliant at it, though.

Im horrible in math. always have been always will be. I fact i hated math so much as a kid i wouldnt say the word. i have horrible memories as a child doing math homeworks and having tanturums. now im placed in developmental geometry with all the dumb kids. the really strange thing is though, my dad is really good in math cause he majored in economics

Generally, I like maths and mathematical problems. But I prefer practical tasks (e.g. in physics, chemistry, programming), not theoretical/"pure" mathematics (when you need to learn and prove theorems). When I was in high school, algebra and geometry were much more easier, than literature.

I like learning math, but I have to constantly be reminded how to do it. I can't do long division or work with decimals, and everything else takes me a long time.

I'm very slow at figuring out equations, but have next-to-no errors as a result.
Problem is, when in a school maths test finishing within the set time limit is of dire importance. Something I'm not so good at.

That, and I find my maths classes absolutely unbearable. The teacher this year teaches in a way that half the class gets it perfectly and the other half is sitting there like: "What?"
I'm usually in the part that gets it instantly but he just confuses me.

I'm good at patterns and the statistics-y side of maths, but complex equations go in one ear and out the other, or usually, they don't even register at all.

Everyone (my family and teachers) predicted that I would be a maths genius because I aced it in the first few years of school. But that was mainly about simple sums. Once the spatial side of maths and equations were introduced, it became clear that I would be average at best.

And that's what I am now. Average. I much prefer words to equations.

I'm comfortable with arithmetic,but the nitty gritty mathematics (algebra,trigonometry etc)
just go over my head.

I hate maths cant do it to save my life. I particulaly hate anything to do with shape and space, since my spacial awareness and co ordination is crap probably due to my As. but generally i hate everything about maths, its my worst subject and i cant wait to be able to give it up, if i hopefully pass this damn subject!
seriously most of the stuff i wont even need, yes a person needs some general maths ie numbers in their life, but seriously WE have calculators....and computers, DUH.

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I did well in math until I was in the eighth grade. My strong subjects in school were English, Spanish, and biology. I was embarrassingly average in math. Test anxiety pulled my grades down to a C level, even though I did well in my homework.

I have an interesting twist. I failed math in the 3rd grade mostly because I couldn't yet put sentences together and couldn't understand story problems. So I always thought I was pretty stupid in math and never really tried too hard at it. Just a couple of years ago I had some educational testing because of some problems I was having at work, and the tests showed that I am gifted in math reasoning. The testing psychologist actually said to me "If you had pursued math you would probably be working for the Space Shuttle program now." He explained that to learn math, you need to memorize and learn by rote, but since I didn't try, I never learned the basics. Go figure.

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