Mathematic as an individual with asperger.

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Geometry was sent by the devil to drive some of us doolally .

I struggle with math if it's badly communicated or explained.
I will struggle still as long as I cannot comprehend the verbal terms at all.

Math itself overall isn't actually easy to explain.
.. And whatever language issues and verbal memory I have doesn't help with that...

For me, nothing truly clicks until all parts, all steps and in between that, and all bits of detail in each part is explained.
I struggle to fill gaps and "assume" unless I voluntarily waste hours of time and happened to be willing to toy with it.


I'd do better in more visual representation of maths.

Better if there are patterns well explained enough in less concrete and more abstract parts.

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What type of learner are you? I struggled with math until my teacher realised I was very visual. After that, I would doodle the problem so I could understand it and math became one of my favourite subjects. If I can’t ‘see’ a problem in my head, then it’s meaningless. Work out how you think and use that.

Yes, there are many different ways to solve math problems. Find the one that works for you!
I can manipulate numbers as well as visualize so I've done very well in math.
I don't get the benefit many get by graphing number sets as I can work with numbers directly.

I can "tune" an electronic circuit using a digital meter. Most people need a visual indication and can't process numbers to make adjustments.

Mathematics... it's just- it's beautiful, really. I have created many "fictional" worlds, coding for planetary gravity and possible conditions. BUT! Only visually, mathematics in solely verbal/auditory form brings me to tears, as there is failure of understanding...

Yes, math was fun. But when I saw it written out in different ways. When the same problem is written or explained in different ways, it gets easier to understand because I find how all the ways are connected and understand each method better.

This was in high school, though. I haven't taken a math class in 4 years.

I hate math and I really struggle with it. I prefer history, English and Polish

I am both great and terrible at math. I never learned my multiplication tables. Just couldn’t do it. I got great grades in Geometry, Algebra and Calculus. Had trouble with Differential Equations (all memorization) loke Matrix math. Got along great with statistics when it was “marbles in a bag” crashed and burned after that. What the heck is e? How can you take “e” marbles out of a bag? Poson distribution? It looks like a fish, beyond that I don’t get it. It got worse from there.

I like math a lot and want to specialize in machine learning and data science, which are math-loaded. I'm a programmer.

I got into trouble at school for being able to add columns of figures in my head.

As an autistic child I had no instinctive understanding of the fact that teachers don't like to be made to look stupid - even when they are.

I didn't do proper mathematics at school at an advanced level. back before 1988 there were 2 types of 16+ qualification Certificate of Secondary Education (abbreviated to CSE) and the General Certificate of Edecation Ordinary Level (abbreviated to GCE/O level) informally just called O levels which were a higher tier 16+ qualification. I however didn't do O levels but CSEs and the maths was really just primary arithmetic and I was also put a year behind. I left school with 6 CSEs. I did go to college and do some maths but this time included trigonometry, Geometry and algrbra some of it. I didn't whilst I was at college learn factorising and simplifying rational expressions. I did the simple stuff. About 35 to 40 years later I taught myself how to do the things I had trouble in college with. Also the side effects of my antiepilepsy medicine didn't help at the time. Nor did the fact that applying myself for that could have triggered off an epileptic seizure so ealier on I changed my medicine to one that has a more reliable epileptic remission to it. I started relearning what I had done on college. I using YouTube videos taught myself how to solve quadratic equations because it came to me how to factorise which I had difficulties with in college back in 1985. I also began on Calculus with the introduction to limits, differentials integrals and the rules for limits, derivatives and integrals. I have never done O or A levels in maths nor have I completed B TEC maths level II let alone started BTEC maths level III. Got to keep the brain active at 57 years old. I wouldn't say I was good at maths though but it seems strange to me that I was doing maths that my old school didn't think I had the intelligence to do since I spent the first 10 years of my childhood attending special needs schools for children with type II learning disabilities due to class snobbery back in the late 1960s.