Bad at things considered "Asperger's" as a kid

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I was always REALLY bad at math, puzzles, legos, and building ANYTHING in general. I'm pretty sure when people where I lived SAID Aspies were supposed to be good at these things, it was just a stereotype.

It's not common to all aspies. I *am* good at maths, Lego and puzzles, but I confuse people by being utterly incapable of solving a Rubik's Cube. And I'm terrible with knots.

I'm horrible at math, but good at Legos and puzzles. Well, I'm good at Legos if I know what I am building, I just don't have much of an imagination to think of something to build with Legos.

Rubiks Cube is easy! All you do is peel off the stickers and put them back on.

Lego, never legos!

Everytime someone brings up that all autistic people are math whizzes, I want to strangle them. I never really played with Legos that much and didn't know what a Rubick's cube was until early adulthood when I was watching someshow about the 1980's. I was good at puzzles, but only because my mom would work with me about everything the phycologist said I wasn't good at. I had no idea putting puzzles together was a life skill.

I hear the opposite stereotype a lot:

"unlike those with other forms of autism, people with AS are generally bad at tasks for which they are required to imagine the solution or the outcome visually."

I happen to have my strengths in visual/spatial thinking to which - where I live - most people who are familiar with AS react with surprise. Seriously, shows how pointless stereotypes are.

Actually many people with AS historically do not do well with math...arithmetic specifically. Many people with AS have a non verbal learning disorder and those individuals may not do well with puzzles and legos.

However, I have a non-verbal learning disorder and I was horrible at arithmetic but I did very well with puzzles and legos.

I was/am terrible at puzzles and anything spatial or mechanical as well......

I'm pretty bad at math.

I think it has something to do witih working memory. I could never remember the rules.

But I also had a head injury as a kid and shortly after that I started to get extra help in math. So I'm not sure.

I'm terrible at math beyond very basic algebra. Taking physics in high school and statistics in college were a nightmare and I scraped by with C's in both.

I do, however, have higher-than-average skills at Tetris.

I would go as far as saying I have a mathematics disability. Not sure if I do but it's pretty bad. I've not met anyone as bad as me.

I'm good at puzzles, as in the 1000 pieces kind. I'm good at find-a-words. Actually I've completed some in less than 5 minutes. I do them fairly regularly.
I was pretty good at building things out of blocks. Actually I would build things out of books, cards, coasters, sticks, etc.
I could build a pretty mean cubby house out of blankets and books.

I need sample images to help me along though. My spatial skills are not very good, unless I try to see a whole picture and not just one corner of it.

I still like patterns in numbers even if I'm not very good at math.

I'm not great with mechanical things at first but I eventually get the hang of it. I built five things in my room including computer desk, chair, puzzle book shelf, medium fan and telescope.

I'd say I'm usually good at the basics of maths, I understand mathematical concepts (usually). I like physics even more, and I like the rudiments of statistics, too. However, when it comes to more advanced maths like differential and integral calculus, probability theory, I begin to struggle with them. I have to understand the underlying concepts before I can remember the rules and it takes a lot of effort from me (I have to convert the academics into non-verbal visuo-spatial models in my mind and make the connections), I don't have much room for rote learning style, so eventually I'm happy I was able to pass those exams at the Uni...

I wonder if real geniuses like Einstein had similar ways of thinking. They tried to compensate weaknesses with their strengths, and ultimately it led them to discover new ideas.

For the record, I was good at legos (and puzzles), although my creations were more technical, practical designs than art.

It is a stereotype - I've known a lot of NT kids who are good at maths, and love to build Lego, and love to work out puzzles. That's how kids learn. When I worked at a preschool, they had the big chunky Lego, and all the kids loved that the most, and kept wanting to build little boxes and other little things like that with it. Also they liked building puzzles.

I'm bad at maths, though I used to be good until I learnt more complicated stuff. I'm also bad at cryptic crosswords, which really bugs me because my idol does them, and I want to get all the fuss.