math/science or language/literature?

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which are you BEST at?

math/sciences-- and I am male	17%	[ 16 ]
math/sciences-- and I am female	17%	[ 16 ]
language/ literature/ writing-- and I am male	14%	[ 13 ]
language/ literature/ writing-- and I am female	28%	[ 27 ]
I am equally good at both-- and I am male	11%	[ 10 ]
I am equally good at both-- and I am female	11%	[ 10 ]
I am terrible at both-- and I am male	2%	[ 2 ]
I am terrible at both-- and I am female	1%	[ 1 ]

Total votes : 95

Nikky91
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13 Aug 2008, 3:05 pm

I am good at both science/math and literature/writing. I enjoy writing and reading in my free time and my favorite classes at school are science classes.

Chaotica
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15 Aug 2008, 11:08 am

Good at both.

MintLemonade
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15 Aug 2008, 12:20 pm

I'm good at writing and science. I'm not good with math.

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15 Aug 2008, 12:28 pm

I'm good at math and science, and I'm also good with languages, but I'm terrible at writing. Grammar, foreign languages, reading, yes, but don't ask me to compose anything. I'm female.

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15 Aug 2008, 1:51 pm

I like languages in the linguistics and learning of foreign languages sense of the word but not literature. I like the sciences but not so much the mathematics.

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15 Aug 2008, 3:44 pm

I'm much better at the humanities. Partially because I just have naturally good writing skills, and partially it's because I'm very good at analyzing and getting the conclusion I want, especially when no one can actually say it's wrong given the way I wrote it. When there's only one right answer and there's no talking or writing my way around it, when no analysis will save me from a wrong answer, it's a lot harder. I've also been an avid reader and loved stories for as long as I can remember, so literature has always been easy for me. Not to mention I imagined myself going into a writing-oriented career rather than a math-oriented one, so I didn't as much see the use in math for my life beyond the basics. I'm not sure how much it has to do with AS, however.

olle
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15 Aug 2008, 4:31 pm

CelticRose wrote:

I'm good at math and science, and I'm also good with languages, but I'm terrible at writing. Grammar, foreign languages, reading, yes, but don't ask me to compose anything. I'm female.

That is more or less exactly what I am like as well. (I'm male. ) I even think I read somewhere it's a documented autistic trait, lacking the imagination needed for creative writing.

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15 Aug 2008, 5:39 pm

Love: languages and linguistics.
Like: Literature, biology
Tolerate: Chemistry
Suck at: Maths, physics

That sums it all up, really.

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CelticRose
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15 Aug 2008, 10:49 pm

olle wrote:

CelticRose wrote:

I'm good at math and science, and I'm also good with languages, but I'm terrible at writing. Grammar, foreign languages, reading, yes, but don't ask me to compose anything. I'm female.

That is more or less exactly what I am like as well. (I'm male. ) I even think I read somewhere it's a documented autistic trait, lacking the imagination needed for creative writing.

Imagination I got -- too much sometimes. :wink: