Any other Aspies struggle math?

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I would be good at math if it weren't for a lack of precision. I do like its accuracy, but I have trouble with my own accuracy.

im good, i just don like it that much, just a bit, but i do well at it, even thou i find it difficult sometimes.

I would LOVE to be good at maths, dammit!

I mean, is there a language more rational, more unchanging and straightforward? I don't think so. But unfortunately, although I understand the meaning of the different numbers and signs, and I understand pretty well how they interact, looking at equations is like looking at nothing. I can feel the information in my brain travelling through pathways that go no where. Total darkness of the mind. Docs thought it might just be ADD making me unable to concentrate on numbers, but medication did nothing to help me. (It DID increase my ability to focus on most tasks, but I'm still math-illiterate. Meaning the problem is elsewhere.)

It pisses me off, quite frankly. Would have loved to be an astrophysicist, or to work in a lab maybe, but it'll take a freaking good teacher for me to get there.

For the people who struggle with math - maybe dyscalculia is to blame, rather than AS. I haven't been diagnosed with dyscalculia by a psychology, but I definetly feel like it explains my lack of mathematical aptitude.

As much as I'd like to investigate that possibility, I don't think any mental professional where I live can diagnose conditions of that nature. I mean, they were already pretty clueless as to how to help me with AS so...

EDIT: for now, it seems you have sparked in me an episode of ''read everything on the subject'' that should last a couple hours. Hah

I was fairly average at math until 5th grade, then things started getting too advanced and I didn't really get it...I don't know how the hell I managed to graduate from high school with the math skills of a 5th grader guess my reading/writing skills must have made up for it or something.

But yeah I doubt I could pass a high school calculus course let alone......anything beyond remedial math in college.

Even if you flunk Calculus you can still know up to 50 percent of the material.

If you struggle with math, don't even think about going to College.

So people who struggle with math but are otherwise highly intelligent don't deserve a college degree? I have an IQ of 128, I'm not very good at math. But I would be a waste if I worked food service and construction for the rest of my life. And in America these days without a college degree those are some of the few options available to you.

Because there's not much use for an Aspie linguist or historian that can't teach.

Im very bad at math. I started to cry when I was taking my math exam.

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gee, at those times i just went "DUHHHhhh....."

So what, You recommend we just top ourselves and have done with it?

No, you can try to get a cleaning job or an unskilled job where math difficulties aren't a problem.

I'm in the same position as I live in fairly rural area and the public high school I went to had an absolutley awful counsellor for the majority of the time I was there. She was the kind who would just sit there nodding her head and then say "What do you think you should do?" when you were finished speaking. She never gave a whit of advice to anyone.

I am going to university this year though and they have a medical center attatched to their campus, so maybe I could get an official diagnosis there.

Yay for learning something new, I guess.

Lonermutant: Are your math skills perfect? Do you understand every bit of math you come across? If so, then good for you. If not, maybe you can try to understand the position some of us are in.

My strength lies in languages and humanities. Which is what I'll be studying at university this year. If I didn't go to university, I would be doing nothing at all this year - there are no job vacancies where I live that don't require you to have experience and some sort of qualification.

Yeah. I'd rather put a bullet through my temple. Thanks all the same.

Simply put, and I don't know how things stand in Norway, but there aren't a lot of "Unskilled" jobs in the United States which pay a wage a person can actually live on.