Are most Autistics good at math?

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I hated maths in primary school (when I was aged 5-11). I found it boring and difficult. In primary school they had toys to help kids learn maths, but even with toys it was boring. I just found myself playing with the toys instead of using them to help me with learning maths.

At high school I didn't hate maths so much, although it still wasn't one of my favourite subjects. I didn't like doing maths homework though. But as I got older I found that science was more boring than maths.
Maths was rather cosy. What I mean by that is one time I was sitting by a window in a maths exam and it was raining outside, and I found it cosy and soothing to work out math problems with the rain pouring against the window. I did get an F though, but still, it was fun at the time.

Well, when I was six or seven, I often got bored and did math exercises from our textbook long before I was supposed to. When the teacher found out, she punished me by forbidding me to do any math at all. The ban was never formally lifted; it was simply forgotten at the beginning of the following school year, when she no longer taught us. It managed to make me feel guilty even for thinking of numbers whenever they came up in ordinary conversation, even in the middle of my summer holidays. Besides, I was openly considered pretty dumb, together with another student, so each of us was assigned a bright classmate to watch us at all times, and mine was only glad to make sure I didn’t get to indulge my illicit appetite for math.

In my experience, that seems to be the job of teachers and bullies alike: to discourage as many nerds as possible from pursuing their dreams. I guess otherwise there’d be too many happy adults leading fulfilling lives.

I can't do anything with numbers. I'm good with words and writing though.

I'm alright with math. Though, I'm sure it's not my best -- even if I go as far as abstract and nonverbal thinking/learning. Working with words are still worse for me.

My speciality is more... 'Proprioceptive' than 'Quantitive' or 'Linear'.

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I'm sure not. I'm way behind in math, and always have been. I can see the same type of math problem that I just did and entirely forget how to do it. I also constantly make little mistakes on all the math.

Math came easy to me up to calculus, but below that I was OK with word problems and how to apply whatever math was necessary.

For example, the first VCRs only came with a counter on the take up side, rather than an elapsed time display. Starting with a zeroed counter and rewound tape, I noted the counter reading at one hour, then two hours. Knowing the cross sectional area of the 0-1 hour donut was the same as the 1-2 donut, I was able to create then solve a quadratic equation for regular time intervals and counter readings.

I’m likely dyscalculic but I’m ok ar art.

Well being a crap maths teacher is one thing, but hacking away at a child's self confidence is something entirely different, she should be hung, drawn and quartered for that (well not literally, but pretty close to literally).

I'm pretty okay at math---especially practical math.

But I can't draw worth a damn....

Not me because I have dyscalculia and I have an autistic friend who also does and another one who is okay at math, not better than anyone else so from my experience no.

I like 1 and 0.

As soon as both start inviting friends, play together and make children, it's a mess.

Well I'm not diagnosed yet but personally I'm pretty bad at math. I was actually very good in primary school but I don't know, I just didn't like math anymore then and I really began to lag behind. I'm much better at learning foreign languages.

I'm horrible at math.