HeroOfHyrule wrote:
I'm looking at courses for the community college near me to see what kind of potential careers are available to me. I think for anything that I'd want to do I'd have to take remedial math classes before I do anything else, which is daunting. I'm not good at math due to dyscalculia and can't do things with fractions or decimals, and can't do division beyond very basic division. I can teach myself things online, but I'm sure if the community college sees my horrible GPA and my grades in math from high school + the fact I have dyscalculia that they'll want me to take remedial math classes.
I know a guy who is a very well known doctor and professor. He is working on autism. I saw him on TV and youtube too many times. He has Aspergers, dyscalculia and dyslexia. But he claims these things are gifts. I do not know what he means by this.
And when he talk about difficulties he had because of these things, he always make fun of them. He says " math was a nightmare for me."
But it seems that he somehow managed to cope with it. Because in my country, one can probably not be a doctor, if he or she is not able to do basic mathematics in the exam. Only way is to excel in other fields to compensate the loss.
For me, I hated math when I was a kid. But after University, I realized that I can understand mathematics more than anything. Now I know too many things: single variable calculus, multi variable calculus, linear algebra, matrix methods-signal processing and AI, differential equations, probability, fourier transformation and so on. Now my aim is to do master on math. Even if I graduated from Psychological counseling and guidance. Because I believe that that is the only way I can be happy. I just want to be like Newton or Einstein.
So, I do not know whether you can learn math or not. But I know you can achieve many things without math. Like him.