Bad at Math, Good at English?

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That's true, I was just thinking the same thing that this poll would be skewed towards people who prefer language arts just because of the title.

Aspies who like math are socially viable non-troubled spectrum folk who don't frequent the forum.

FWIW, In Algebra, stuff that required graphing I actually liked ( I would never admit this then! LOL). If it enabled me to visualize it, I had less trouble usually.
After college, I too the GRE. The geometry questions I understood right away despite my HS problems with that branch of mathmatics.
But literature is more fun, no matter how you slice it!

Matthew

I actually am good at math, but not in the way savants tens to be good at math. I suck at arithmetic, it's the advanced stuff were I thrive, the stuff were I learn stuff on my own. Calculating is boring, discovery is fun. I'm currently in Calculus 2 right now, but I'm really pretty much done with the course now.

I was good at geometry too because I am visual. I enjoyed Roman numerals because I like learning other languages. Although I'm not very good at reading music because it is in a way another language. I really need to be able to concentrate on it. I thinks that's why I don't like math nor am I good at it. I need to have more focus to be able to work problems out. I think it's because of my ADHD. I know there are people with ADHD who are good with music and at math but I'm not one of them.

I almost enjoy doing maths when on medication.

I agree that literature is more fun once you get the structure of sentences/ paragraphs down and all that annoying punctuation stuff. I always struggled with it but as something who is working hard to become a published other it was necessary to get better at it. Fortunately, I can mimic other writing styles. What you get is a modern day science fiction story with a Dickens flare and Gaiman length chapters.

My sister was talking to me about how much she enjoyed maths and mentioned algebra and I said that I was good at algebra, and now she thinks I actually feel the same way about maths as she does. No, no, no - it is still very boring to me. Get me on stimulants and it's a different story but that's not the real me.

I am terrible at Math. Can't do division or multiplication without a calculator. And once someone said I don't have AS because I'm not good at Math and all people with AS are good at math.

I'm better in math that I am in english, or rather I should say french, my first language. (Then again I was really bad in english while in school.) I always had some difficulty in french because of the grammar, while with math I could sometimes get perfect scores. (After elementary school that is, when calculator was allowed, ADD and arithmetic don't mix well.)

Math is not one skill, but many.

I count stuff for a living as an inventory counter for a company that counts stuff in retail stores.

One coworker is both rated as a faster counter than I am, and he is qualified to be an engineer and knows calculus. But he has to ask me "how much is 'three for two dollars'?" when we do the "price times quantity count of catfood at Giant.

Go figure.

That's OK, Tollorin, I suck at French and Spanish...and what's worse, when I try to use either, they get mixed up in my head and I come out with this horrible Franglish mangle of all the languages I know. Fortunately for everyone I stopped at those three, with only elementary usage of the two I mentioned.

I'm terrible at Math but I'm pretty good with English.

You do not need to be taught how to solve math problems, in theory. You only need to be taught what the notation and vocabulary mean.

That line right there summarizes why we are good at one or the other more than any other factor. Obviously natural predisposition plays a role but in us aspies interest = practice (and lots of it). When I was a kid I loved numbers but I couldn't perform math the way I was taught in school. I always performed arithmetic from left to right, rather than right to left as it was taught. When I was 7 I started collecting baseball and football cards. I didn't really care much about the baseball and football, it's just that I had discovered all the numbers on the back of the cards. I would spend hours comparing the statistic on the back of the cards. I've been comparing number ever since then. I just love doing math in my head. It's really the years of constant practice that made me good at math and the practice is really just a result of interest.

I agree with a pp that a LOT is in the presentation. DD(10) always struggled with math in the regular classroom. She's done homebound school the last two years, and this year they decided she should try an online math program, and not only that, but a grade up. I was very hesitant, but agreed to a trial period. The girl has flown through, and I'm convinced it's because of the way it's presented. During the lecture segment,the problems are shown as if someone is writing it over your shoulder, while the teacher lectures. There are also lab segments, homework, vocab, etc. She's carried an "A" all year. The program just works. That said, she is bad at arithmetic memorization, doesn't know her addition or multiplication facts, but she gets along just fine. English, science, and history classes have always been a breeze for her.

My question is: Do you think that someone who is better at math / physics / chemistry than English / literature / history can't have AS? Because it seems that this was the main reason why I don't fit in the AS stereotype according to the psychs who evaluated me.

Anyway, I already feel better reading that most people here, the AS majority, is actually the opposite than I am in this respect. So, there's at least a little more understanding from my part that they denied the AS dx from me and instead gave me that ugly and vague PDD-NOS label I hate.

Nevertheless, Einstein and Tesla couldn't have AS then, period.

Well then I can't have AS, and I've been diagnosed with it.

AS and autism are primarily defined as a deficit in social communication. As such, what you're good or bad at in school is immaterial to your diagnosis.

I'm undiagnosed, but my son is not and he's exactly like me as a kid: I have degrees in English, Communications (just because I have a degree in it doesn't mean I'm good at it) and Theater. Tell your doctor to re-read the criterion.