Learning block

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I'm not sure if this is an aspie thing or just a me thing, but does anyone find that if they do not understand one topic that has been covered (and have not had time go back over it and study at home), it causes a block from learning other consecutive but unrelated topics?

For example, if, in physics class we were taught about how to calculate forces acting on an object on an inclined plane and couldn't grasp the concept, would you find it difficult to learn about the next topic- say momentum of particles even though the 2 topics are unrelated? It is as if I cannot move on until I can complete and fully understand one topic.

It causes a bit of an issue, where if I don't understand a concept straightaway and we move on, I end up getting a backlog of work which I don't understand, yet if I understand the topic I was initially stuck on and go back over the other backlog of topics I didn't understand after that, I can understand them perfectly well, even without being taught them again.

I'm curious to see if anyone else has a similar problem!
Thanks.
V.N.U.N

Not knowing one topic may just cause stress, or it might use some of the skills that you would need to understand the subsequent topic without you even realizing it. Generally, at least in my school, I've found that the order of topics studied in a class reflected the progression of knowledge. Sometimes, the teacher would say that we are "starting a completely new topic" (thinking chemistry) but later on, some problem-solving skills from other chapters would come into play in this supposedly completely new topic. Sometimes, even things that I have learned in another class would come in handy. Mathematics in itself is a progressive subject; every topic builds up on skills learned previously. I haven't realized it myself until I read a book about getting better in math (I was getting mediocre grades in math back then) and it said that you have to have done well in previous years in order to do well in subsequent years, especially when math isn't your strongest suit (which is probably why one would be reading a book like that in first place).