I LOVE writing!! ! But I HATE math!! !

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I totally know how you feel. I SUCK at algebra. HARD (though I am steadily bringing my grade up). And having a complete sourpuss for a teacher doesn't exactly help me either.

You can't be serious. Writing is so biased and subjective. There are no absolutes, and it makes me go crazy. In mathematics, everything just makes sense; it's the only perfect universal truth.

The next best thing to it is writing to convince someone you have discovered a universal truth!

Indeed. Add in the fact that if your writing doesn't appeal to the sensibilities of the reader (i.e., Grader), and that might be as simple as failing to follow a few banal grammatical conventions or using emotions that appeal to the reader, then your grade becomes thrashed. Math, on the other hand, actually has a correct answer and there's no chance your grade will be destroyed simply because your teacher dislikes your thinking processes or communication processes (Unless they're thinking processes that result in the wrong answer.).

In writing, there are rules--LOTS of rules.

Detailed rules.

Rules for every last thing.

What defines you as a writer are three things; first, how you understand and master those rules, second, how you apply those rules properly, and third, knowing when and where to break them. I actually hate writing nonfiction, or even fiction without some element of the supernatural\superpowers\fantasy\sci-fi in it, because there just aren't enough rules. It's boring as hell.

Math, though, is a brand of pure (censored) evil and I can barely understand it on my best day. So probably there's a fundamental difference in the versions of neuroatypicality you and I have. And hey; to each his own.

Can you love math and writing all at once? They're both good.

I've only mentioned this a million times on WP. I'm glad I'm not the only aspie who feels this way. I have loved to read and write ever since I was a small child, but for years I was afraid of doing adult things like grocery shopping because of trying to add up all those prices, and if there are taxes it's even worse because the stupid government won't put them on the stupid price tags. When I was in junior high I started being taught life skills math by a private teacher.

I also once thought that even though I got praise and support for reading and writing as a kid that wasn't a big deal because anyone could be good at it, but only really smart people were good at math. Also girls were supposed to stink at math.

Yeah yeah, I know we need math and numbers, everyday life would be a lot harder if we tried to do without it, but I still don't have to like it, and I hate that society still acts like only people are good at it can be smart.

Going by the stereotype, we Aspies should all be wizzes at math, but total simpletons at writing, or anything else artistic. Well, I for one am the exact opposite of the stereotype, as are professional writers probably with Asperger's, such as James Elroy, and the late Robert E. Howard.

I share OP's sentiment completely

Writer aspies, rise up against the stereotype of the math genius!

I am the same. I love to write poetry/song lyrics/ short stories, but, I have very limited skills when it comes to dealing with numbers. My issues pertaining to math comprehension, stem from dyscalculia. I have never been able to grasp abstract math concepts.