Good at Math?

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I have math skills where I will obsessively try to calculate something, sometimes making it so that I cannot even fall asleep. Doing things like calculating prime numbers in binary in my head on looking for the patterns.
Drives me freaking nuts although luckily I have discovered alcohol etc. and now when I am do some obnoxious calculation in my head I can eventually just numb the braincells enough to fall asleep.

I enjoy doing math, but I don't think I'm good at it, decent, maybe, but not good. T_T

I'm so bad at maths it's shocking.

I was always at the top of my class in math...loved math...until I got to Algebra...didn't like it at all...however, Geometry I loved and again did very well indeed...I had an old Navy retired teacher and Mr. Armstrong (loved him dearly) and he just loved that I could figure out everything so quickly...

Women tend to be bad at math due to menstruation.

I have AS and am ok at math, but not great.
I can do basic things like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. But I can't do things like geometry...and especially algebra. Having letters in math is confusing.

????? Outside of the depletion of iron, and the stress for a week or so, how could that in itself cause a problem? On the other hand, they might be encouraged to do some basic math to determine of the time is right for some things. The two might even cancel one another out?

Like those who said prior to this: I'm good at "basic" math, real good [compared to verbal skills]; till they start putting letters in and/or making the sums too long, I then start looking at blank paper.

I think one thing that really makes people on the spectrum more likely to become good at math is that it's a solitary activity, you need to be socially detached, and it's not going to be of much use when playing with other children. If it doesn't become an obsession, people with AS will suffer from lower attention spans though and perhaps fail because of that. We also have a strong tendency to work out methods of our own to do things which aren't compatible with established methods. That might become a problem when the curriculum introduces new topics. I read in one of Uta Frith's book about a boy that used the base 12 when dividing or something instead of 10, though don't remember exactly what the scenario was. In general, it's very much a trait of people with AS to develop methods of our own to do stuff, even though it might clash with other people's, while NT's don't develop anything like that unless it's part of a social process.

I suck at math, In college taking basic business math I had horrible grades, and word problems are too hard they made me want to cry, usually. Also have a bad sense of direction, i can tell you where stuff is, but not how to get there. My gf says it drives her crazy when I ask so much, we play online games and navigating is hard as hell. She said its no fun if you ask me where its at all the time.

I am appalling at maths. Anything more demanding than basic addition or subtraction - no chance. And I was never able to learn my times tables. At school, I could just about grasp something like long division while we were concentrating on it in class and doing lots of examples - but by the time I sat down to do some more as home work, it had got away from me like a greasy pig, and I had no clue where to even begin.

Even copying down a line of numbers is a challenge - I usually have to cover them up and reveal them one at a time. Reading something like a telephone number out to somebody makes me break into a cold sweat in case I get it wrong, and if there's a series of zeros then I'm really in trouble - I can't tell how many there are.

When I was doing my exams at the end of the first year at University, we had a maths and stats paper; you were supposed to do an equal number of questions from the maths and statistics parts of the paper. I was marginally better at basic stats than I was at maths, and just before the exam my maths lecturer took me to one side and told me to ignore the maths altogether, do as much as I could of the stats questions, and if I did well enough, he'd scrape me a pass. Which he did.

So there you are - I'm officially rubbish.

I'm terrible at it, always have been.

Math is my life long enemy. I am actually good a some parts of math, but I have this intense hatred of it. I failed 8th grade algebra. My parents always said I was good at math and would like it more and more as I went on in school. I found I liked it less and less. What finally did math in for me though, was multi-variable calculus. It ruined a career in electrical engineering for me. Its probably just as well though, considering the kind of awfulness my husband went through at work.

I also hate science. Questions like who should you marry and what career you should go into are not science questions. Unfortunately, some people have tried to turn it into a science. Other things that are not science include the art of creating communities and why people have emotions. Once I asked my father "If I break the laws of physics, will I go to jail?" and he said "No, they will just figure out what you did and then change the laws of physics to cover that case." So I guess I will just have to keep coming up with new ways to break the laws of science.

I was always really good at Maths at school - until I got to Mechanics, and suddenly I was completely clueless!

Must be the "thinking in 3D problem" again!

I think its 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' too. the kid in that gets his maths a level really young.

I HATE maths.
Numbers panic me everytime I got to do maths I always have really bad panic attacks