Which subject is most difficult to understand?

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I voted math as usual. Anything past geometry.......actually algebra (I forgot how to do geometry and algebra 2), I cannot do. I would've also voted chemistry. Too many chemicals to remember.

For similar reasons as to why Nathaniel Bowditch disliked history, I dislike economics. Economics. Is. Intellectual. Anarchy.

HERE HERE!! Physics is the devil. I attempted it TWICE in college, and it was like the instructors were speaking Mandarin to me. Not even Spanish, but Mandarin. I just didn't get it at all. The word problems really hung me up too. Although the math itself wasn't that difficult, I just could not wrap my brain around that topic, no matter what I did.

I was lousy at math up until the beginning of high school (15 yrs or so), when I decided to stop asking questions and just memorize rules. Now I even tutor kids in math up through geometry. I've never taken Calculus though...I bet I would hate it. I'm in a grad. level statistics class, and I'm quite enjoying it, in all honesty.

Biology/life sciences and English/grammar/literature are my favorites. Even though I struggle with advanced chemistry classes, I love it. It's fascinating.

I found the hardest to be calculus, physics, chemistry.. Math it depends.. calculus and the link are theoretical and abstract, while algebra or statistics are much more discrete and more easily visualizable. Basically anything really abstract I have trouble with.

Right now I'm not having fun with philosophy.... That has more to do with the teacher than the subject.

Wish I'd taken ethics instead.

Any subject where there is considered no absolute standard of reference is bound to have fiefdoms like that, ethics probably just as bad as philosophy as it is considered to be a matter of philosophy. If you want a subject that doesn't have to do with the opinions of the teacher, look for the ones where there is hard mathematics, such as physics, chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, ... engineering/"applied" sciences, such as electronics. However, if you wish to find more fiefdoms, then there are fields where math is only involved as an illustration, such as economics, ...

I voted mathematics because I tend to perform the worst in math courses. I could understand the basic concept of what I'm supposed to do, but in the middle I tend to reverse things a little bit. The process gets mixed up, and sometimes numbers tend to be reversed. I've never done the best in math, except for my geometry class in high school. I find it interesting that more of us aspies found math to be the hardest to understand out of the rest of these courses listed. I was always told that aspies were "supposed" to be good at math. Although, I have heard that Einstein wasn't the best at math either. I thought that I was different for an aspie because I didn't excel in math.

I noticed that a lot of people voted Mathematics and Science as their worst subjects. That kind of contradicts the generally accepted notion that Mathematics/Science tends to be an Aspie's area of expertise.

I voted physical science.

Maths. I was good at it, but I hated it, and it was a cause of meltdowns for 7 years. I never had a formulaic mind, I've always been more creative. I also struggled with the sciences because they often involved formulae, especially chemistry and physics. Though I got As at GCSE in them too.
However I am doing business as part of a dual honours degree course and though I struggle sometimes remembering the formulas, there aren't as many and can often be worked out easy enough, and most questions are essays. But I am great with cash budgets, despite the maths problem

Math, my brain just can't absorb the concepts of it. There's too many rules; the way math equations are done change so much, there's just no consistency, I have a bad short term memory and remembering so many different formulas is nearly impossible for me. That's why I fail math miserably.

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Maths is hard. I can't learn it properly and I'm still on middle school level in maths. However, "I was always good in music and languages though". Lol.

I second this. The math I am good at is algebra, geometry, statistics. Also, when equations are made of letters and have exclamation marks and greek symbols in them....ARGH! I have the HARDEST time reading equations in a math text. I am in a grad. level math course now, and when the professor explains it I understand it fine...when I read it in the text I am easily lost.

Calculus is the most intuitive subject there is, especially if you try to visualize it. The problem is that it's taught so horribly as to obscure the ideas.

algebra and chamistry are the toughest for me.