Are we ALL math whizzes?

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You missed a few options in your poll such as "I am useless at maths", I have something called dyscalculia which means numbers get mixed up like its more famous cousin and they do not makes sense to me anyway...

I could never get it though my brothers did, but when my dad started to teach me to read at age 3 I far surpassed my brothers and still do.

Reading requires a visual mind which I have in abundance, whereas maths is more abstract.

Whenever someone suggests that all people with autism or Asperger's Syndrome are math whizzes, I want to strangle them and then light them on fire.

My life would have been so much easier if I was good at math. Perhaps I wouldn't have been brainwashed into believing that I could never be a vet because so much math was involved and should focus on being a vet tech or a dog trainer or something else. Basicaly I lost what little modivation I had in school and my grades droped from a B averege to an F averege...and I didn't care. I was always being told I needed to apply myself to my schoolwork, but since I aparently couldn't be a vet, I saw no point in school work. I had no idea how to "apply myself" to begin with; and to this day I am mystified by what people are actualy doing when they say they are "studdying". Eventualy I woke up and realised I am in charge of my own future. I also remember being brainwashed into believing that math was hard. I personaly find basic arethimitic harder than algebra.

From what I know, what you've read is BS. I personally am the math type, but most people with AS are not.

I've always been good at both math AND english, and I never really struggled with much of anything in school. Even though I'm good at math, I never LIKED it. Like, I never enjoyed learning about it or doing math problems. And I never enjoyed english class either because i was surrounded by people who didn't know what an adverb was and couldn't understand concepts like phrases and clauses. That, and it was boring as hell and stupid, and we had to do a lot of stupid sentence diagrams. And the stuff we had to read was always lame and boring. However, I've always had a fascination/curiosity about language in general.