They're abstract, but not in a touchy-feely affective-empathy people-y way. Not in the same way as trying to guess someone's emotions or figure out sarcasm and metaphors.
They're abstract in a logical way.
And other than medicine, they're not all that people-y. Understanding what you are doing still matters more than playing politics while you do it. At least, if you're working with a good employer.
That said, I suck at math. I can do the stereotypical thing about being able to make long strings of arithmetical calculations in my head, but once you get past addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and simple single-variable equations, I'm completely useless. I'm a high-verbal, for some weird reason (probably because I'm a girl, and was hyperlexic as a kid). I tend to do better at putting words together, or "bonehead STEM" like simple machines or carpentry or canning or identifying plants.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"