Trouble with reading and math

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This has always confused me about myself. I never learned how to read well until I was well in my mid-teens. People tried to teach me, But I never really could figure it out. I was the same with math, it took me longer then others to do math problems. However despite this I love math, and I'm a writer, and one of my dreams is to become a theoretical physicist. Is there anyone else out there that has aspergers that struggled like i did?

I was in reading recovery till I was ten at which time my reading age jumped to 13 years old

Growing up I tended to go through spurts of being able to learn and not being able to absorb new information. I often had a delay and was often behind other kids for awhile with new material. But then seemingly out of nowhere it'd 'click' and I'd surge ahead. This would typically repeat with each new thing.

I had my own slow pace learning for pretty much anything. Some things didn't click in in until substantially later. Things like counting money (change) beyond the simplest ways and understanding/reading a face clock h:m:s, didn't click at all until my sophomore year. I have an unidentified math learning disability though, and I'm not sure how much that played a part.

I overall seemed to even out in my ability to learn in highschool so it hasn't been too much of a problem since those younger years. Though I do tend to still have my own pace.

A "theoretical physicist"?

Are you in graduate school in physics?

How are you going to make it happen?




Math, up to vector analysis

English, 720 (out of 800), sat II writing

Sat I verbal 590 (out of 800)



Too low for structural engineering



But whatever. The Nutrition instructor put an exclamation point after the number four, so what is so great about math?

It could be that you have a different thinking process than most people. And most people assume that everyone thinks like the do. Which means they don't have a clue as to how to help someone else learn. Your different way of thinking may be an advantage if you stick with it.

Not everyone is good at reading and math

Daily life, outside of taxes, does not involve much math

Unless that is your day job