Anyone else terrible at math?

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It seems to me that it is common for Aspies to be good at math and/or enjoy studying mathematics on their own. I, however, am terrible at math and avoid it at all costs. I struggle tremendously with even simple math (arithmetic with fractions, for instance) and find it very frustrating and upsetting. It's like I have a major anxiety attack when math is involved and my brain will not process the numbers properly. I over analyze every math problem I come across and try to make too much sense of it, when others can just see it and grasp the "big picture" of the problem, leading them to the correct answer.

I consider myself to be a very analytical person and I grasp most technical concepts very quickly, but math is a very major weakness for me. It's like that part of the brain just does not function for me.

I wasn't all too great at math, I had a lot of time where it was hard for me to understand it where my father used to get after me because it had been easy for him but it was at times hard for me, and yeah I'm a very analytical person too but I just have problems with math where a lot of other things I'm much better at. Guess not all Aspies and all are that great at math, perhaps some of us have more learning difficulties with it than others.

Ah, good to know I'm not the only one. I wonder if I may suffer from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia

Yep bloody awful at maths.

I am pretty good at math. But I do have problems with some of the really spatial parts, like telling an adjacent angle from an opposite angle. I can do that easily now, but my mom had to work with me really hard on it. I also have difficulty understanding probability, in at least the concrete sense needed to solve probability word problems. In terms of the abstract, I do better- I understand about waveforms and all of that. I got a 5 on the AP Calculus exam though, and I got a 740 on the GRE Math portion (800 on the verbal- my verbal scores are always better than my math scores).

I've wondered if that was the case for me too.

and me. My daughter is a math genius, not I!! (actually, she struggles with the word problems, not the numbers)

and, I simply don't get it.

Me too. That describes my problems with math really well.

I'm horrible at anything that involves math. As a very funny teacher once told me, "I couldn't add my way out of a paper bag." I'm being tested for dyscalcula this winter.

didn't like math class; I would always daydream in it, and I failed it from grade 7 thru grade 11... never had the patience to pay attention... they kept putting my up anyway because that's what they did in Quebec, and finally in grade 12 I passed grade 11 math, the requirement for graduation.

Absolutely, as I'm not good with Mathematics then again, it was due to the way it was being taught for, I'm aware that all teachers have their own style(s) as such therefore, I found that the teachers from summer school made more sense with Math than those in regular school session.

That's my thoughts on this..

I wondered that as well, especially since algebra and geometry in high school made those years a living hell for me. No matter how hard I worked, the highest grade I got was a C-.

I was bad at it in school, but more out of laziness and bad teachers. When I took algebra in community college, though, I got an A. But I forgot it all again. It's not that I was bad at it, I just didn't care about it. I sympathized with Jung, what was the point of these abstractions!
But now I know that there are legitimate uses for it, and not just for building or cash: its pure logic.

Still don't care for it, though.

Last edited by Spaceplayer on 11 Oct 2007, 3:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, I've always been terrible at math. I probably have dyscalculia. I seem to fit most of the traits of it.

I am terrible at Math, but for some reason Physics comes very easily to me. Perhaps because there are actual pictures and diagrams to go with the problems.

I think it is a linguistics problem. I am fascinated by mathematics but I cannot easily read a formula or an equation with the same ease that words and sentences quickly translate in my mind to pictures and actions. An equation is a statement about the interaction of its components but it simply does not go into my mind to make intuitive sense the way language does.