Good at Math?

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If I have AS, and am female, should I be good at math?

Not all people with aspergers is good at math, some are amazing, some are somewhat good, and some math is not their best subject at all!

I know for me, I was amazing at math until I started algebra, as soon as the little letters like x, y, z were put in, I got so confused, and couldn't do it. Geometry, though I liked! I have HFA though, even though theres not really a big difference.

I am dismally horrible at math.....truely truely rotten...(then again, I am an ADDer and not diagnosed with AS)....

Even when I try to apply myself, I get all turned around and make ridiculous errors....

I think i have dyscalculea

Should?

Meaning what, exactly?

It may be useful here to note that common school environments are truely terrible places for a lot of females to learn math. . .

When I started considering the possibility that I, like much of my family, might be aspie, I pointed out to my big brother that I wasn't very good at math. .. and he said, "you don't know if you're good at math."

He was right.

I'm really getting into it now. . . and I don't think it has anything to do with diagnosis- just. . . found the right circumstances to study in.

It's amazing what difference that makes.

I was great at math when I was a child, but lost interest when there was no such thing as a gifted program. I had two periods when the subject excited me - one was when I started first grade and worked through the whole exercise book the day I got it, and the second one was in 7th and 8th grade when I used to turn in the tests we had one hour allocated for in 5 minutes, everything correct.

When I started reading it at a college level at age 22 or so, my interest was all gone and I had a hard time passing the courses. Have to love the inept idiots running the school system that didn't let me read the subject at an accelerated pace.

I have dyscalculia, I don't quite grasp the concept of numbers, but I sure as hell love higher theoretical mathematics! Which makes me quite weird and very unfit for maths class.

To be more exactly, it's a stereotype that autism makes you good at maths. It has as little to do with each other as has being good at maths and being a female. That's another stereotype. Coincidentally, I know two amazing (non-autistic) mathematicians who're 100% stereotypically female. It's all about amazing individuality and individual likes and strengths.

I have AS and I hate math. I was always horrible at it and still am.

Horrible at math until I met a teacher called Bob Langen, he used to teach sports until he fell of a trampoline and did his back in. Mr Langen made maths fun, for example we used trig to calculate if we would be ok if the telephone pole outside our classroom toppled or would it land on a schoolboy's desk.

Ed Almos

I got an A- minus in calculus and I have no idea what calculus is to this day. I don't consider myself good at math.

I too was very good at maths until it got to the algebra.
I used to love doing sums and would always get them right but once I hit 11 and the teaching methods changed, it became increasingly harder and I learnt to hate it.

I too was very good at maths until it got to the algebra.
I used to love doing sums and would always get them right but once I hit 11 and the teaching methods changed, it became increasingly harder and I learnt to hate it.

I was kind of obsessed with math since a young age.

Very young I had a book that presented addition and subtraction on a number line... and it really stuck with me. I undrestood so many math concepts from that...

So growing up I was great at math... especially if there is a visual to associate the math ideas to. Algebra, eh... I was okay... I could understand the rules... It all flowed from my brain naturally.

But I made simple mistakes, and have trouble memorizing the formulas... I often just derived the quadratic formula instead of memorizing it...

When I got to Calculus though, everything fit my brain perfectly. Calculus has a fairly graphical explanation for everything... and my brain just soaks up that kind of thing like a sponge.

Same thing happened when I took Combinatorics, once I started looking at everything as paths down a tree... I saw in my mind connections between many areas of mathematics... that understanding is wonderful.

I'm a math major and I'm kind of running into trouble understanding math again though. I'm not the most organized or rigorous person... which is what much of the advanced math is about. I love understanding these concepts intuitively... but I hate all the long purely symbolics proofs... It's very hard for me to figure this stuff out. Which is a shame, because I really like math... and would like to be a Math Professor.

Right now I'd like to just stick with around this pre-calc, calc... and a bit more advanced, perfect my understanding and teach only this area of math. It really seems like what my brain is designed to do...

I love the certainty of maths, and I would say that I am good at it. The point at which I hit problems in my A Level was the point at which things became too complex for me to easily understand the theory behind what I was doing, and my teacher was not willing to take the time to explain this to me. I actually broke down in tears during a class, because whilst I could easily have done what was being asked of me by rote, I hated the fact that I didn't understand WHY!! !! !! !! !

But then I don't think any of that has anything to do with Aspergers. I think its just me.

I have AS & I absolutely suck at math.
I can do addition, subtraction & multiplication.
Anything else, forget it.
I don't understand algebra at all! But if I'm shopping, I can add up the cost of everything I'm buying pretty easily.

Did people get this idea from watching Rainman?

Neither one has anything to do with being good at math. Women and men have the same talents for learning math, and not all Aspies are good at math. Innate talent is a separate factor from being on the autistic spectrum.