Bad At Math

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Ive had AS since my birth, But ive always had a trouble with math. I was wondering is this rare and unique? They say aspies are supposed to be the best in math i dont know if its being stereotypical or what. Im very bad at math i can do addition subtraction but cant do long division or algebra.

This is incorrect. There are three basic types of Aspie brains [according to Chantal Sicile-Kira]: the visual thinking mind, the music and maths mind an the non-visual numbers and language translator mind.

Also, just like every other human being, Aspies can either be left-hemisphere thinkers of right-hemisphere thinkers, which has a great impact on their specific talents and/ or interests.

I cannot do math in my head and my dyslexia likes to moves the symbols and numbers on the page around, so I'm screwed. I tried so hard to pass year 10 maths. I used a calculator.
I'm more of a visual thinker.

Both numbers and letters make patterns in head. Dyslexia makes it hard to read them (on paper). From reading these threads it seems possible my father may have had aspie traits. He taught me to solve all kinds of problems in my head. He was an aerospace engineer. I could solve the problems up to calculus, but not "show the work". There wasn't any. The simplest way to solve the problem was to "know" the answer. How I knew was another question altogether.

Another weird dyslexic thing. Can't read music. The symbols swim all over the page. Can memorize complex pieces quickly (could anyway, don't know about now). Can also write music quickly (again, could) but then not be able to read it. It is easy to write, I know what my intention is and am merely transcribing that intention. I put each symbol onto the paper in sequence, and there is no question what it is. But then when I see it days later, I have to struggle to de-cipher it.

I never used to work out maths problems on paper, until a teacher forced me to ('show your working out or you get a 0'). Now I have to visualise I'm working a math problem out on paper in my mind. The brilliant thing about dyslexia is I can see in pictures.
I can't read music too. People ask me if I play an instrument because I'm always listening to music and going to gigs. But I never bothered to learn because I just can't read it properly. I am an amazing band photographer though.

You can have loads, LOADS of fun with instruments and never read a note. Synths are tons of fun. Its very logical. just hit it and it makes a noise. Picking out tunes by ear is a good way to start. If you can get someone to show you a couple chords, then you basically just hit the thing. I taught a blind lady to play a guitar tuned to an open chord once and she had a blast. She even wrote a couple songs.

It was my inability to do math that prevented me from graduating HS with my peers. I had to take algebra three times in HS before I finally passed it. I never made it past geometry and event hen I had to take a special test just to get my GED.
Oddly, when I went to college, I tested into Statistics 301. Patterns are my thing, not abstract equations.

I think it's a stereotype, many people here said they also had trouble with mathematics as I remember. I was good myself but not a genius of course.

I'm not a mathmatical genius either but I did pretty good in highscool. Better than most in my grade but I think they were just dumb.
For me, I have to understand why and how the equations work before I can figure out how to do them. Once I understand that, the rest is easy... er.. than.. trying to figure out the first part.. anyway.

I am not very good at mental arithmetic(I don't even know my times tables!) but I done well in high school becuase I always did the work that I was assigned to do.

I always want to find out why I am doing this before I find out how. It makes better sense to me that way for some reason because then I apply this logical process to the question. Maybe that is why I did so well in Maths even though my mental arithmetic is not so good.

I was always terrible in math, and I didn´t enjoy it. I can´t read music either, but I´m so good at playing things by ear that why bother? Trying to read music would take so much longer, and be so cumbersome.

I think there are many stereotypes about AS. I also believe that the discovery of AS is still relatively new, so they are still in the process of learning about it.

I have an affinity for numbers (they are "alive" to me with personalities) but I am awful at any math past simple Algebra.

Interesting... I am visual, musical, and good with languages, but was always poor at math.

Math is somewhere in my personal low-average.

I'm doing OK at getting an engineering degree, though. Probably because what I am good at is logic, and there's a lot of logic in math, especially once you get to algebra and beyond. By then, it's no longer arithmetic at all.

Come to think of it, I was excellent at geometry. But everyone told me "that´s not REAL math". Hmmmm.

Let's just say it's the type of math that mathematicians wish that everyone else could see. Well, sort of, if the teachers didn't go around butchering the difference between angle A and the measure of angle A...

I'm "good at" math. I'm not planning to pursue it, though, because it's not something I can interest myself in for the entire rest of my life.

OK, now you've got me curious; what IS the difference?