Do bad at math but well in reading and writing?

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So I am 20 and for some reason I always seem to have bad experiences with math but I do well in reading and writing. All through school I was put in special reading and math classes and for some reason that lowered my self esteem. I have managed to get out of special ed reading class when I was in my Junior year of high school and was placed in regular reading. I have managed to get a A in those classes and did really well. One time I have managed to get out of math and placed in a regular math class in Algebra 1 when I was a junior but I failed that. Between the school years I went to a special help for math to work on things like fractions and other things but I thought that was a bit humiliating for me but at least I managed to pass that. In College I manage to pass one of my math classes and try Math 20. I have failed that class 3 times but I have managed to succeed in Reading 80, Reading 90, and Reading 115. I do bad at math but I do well at English. I was hoping that in college I would get to be in a science fiction writing class so I was focusing on getting pass reading 115 to get to that reading class. Is it just me or am I just stupid at math but not reading and writing?

What do you plan to do in life that requires math skills? For example, I have pretty good basic math skills (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing; advanced math might as well be Esperanto, for me), but I excel in verbal skills (reading, writing and speaking). My math skills have been enough for me to do my own taxes and balance a financial statement, but my verbal skills have given me a long career in politics, government and law; and, for a few years, in technical writing. I know that it is a stereotype for Aspies to be great at advanced math skills, but the truth is that many Aspies aren't so lucky. You will succeed if you focus on your abilities, not your disabilities or inabilities.

I can do well at a math class if my circumstances and place in life allow me to really put the time into it. I kind of need to be able to translate it to words, for example, to talk about "a graph exploding upward," something like that.

I later decided I can take one technical class at a time, and I count as technical classes such classes as: astronomy, chemistry, physics, economics, accounting, etc. And so, when I took astronomy, Calculus, and macroeconomics all in one semester at college that was not good.

I also talk about tedium courses, and there's a lot of overlap between tedium courses and technical courses.

More on the positive side, there are color courses, content courses, etc.

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Temple Grandin said that people on the Spectrum tend to have one of three preferred intellectual styles, with some overlap of course:

1) story / narrative thinkers. And that's largely me! And besides social studies and humanities, depending on the person, such thinkers might do really well with business, medical, or law courses of study which emphasize the case study method.

2) visual thinkers, like Temple herself. And besides the obvious examples like art or engineering, I bet visual thinkers do well in other areas as well.

3) abstract thinkers, like chess, math, music, and probably other areas as well.

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This is Temple's speech, see about 21 minutes into it. (Now, the speech is generally for parents of younger children, but this part is relevant for adults, too.) And please remember, this was posted back around 2007, so there might be even better information and better approaches available today.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEAhMEgGOQ[/youtube]

In college, as one gets deeper into one's major, there occurs less "superfluous" classes which could potentially accentuate one's disabilities.

The same thing happened to me this year. Barely a C in my Geometry class - which I did not understand a lot. I call it "the architect learning class". Obviously, most of those geometry skills are only for architects. A lot of NTs understood the material and got 80s and 90s on tests, but I absolutely did not. Makes me wish me and another NT in the class could swap brains for the 55 minute period...
My reading and writing is great. 100% on my state testing for writing, and somewhere around 85 on the reading skills. I do way better writing out and within a couple of minutes I can start writing long paragraphs.