Monachopia
...spiral out... keep going.
Having Aspergers is not a determining factor for academic skills. That presumption is based on stereotypes.
Personally, I understood all subjects (though struggled a bit with chemistry and physics at higher level) and was good at them at school - but had bad grades which was mostly due to crippling depression and laziness. Since then I have acquired 3 university degrees one of which was Computer Science. Normal math was always fine so long as I could revise the general rules, but when it gets to Calculus that's when I get very lost and don't understand it anymore. I am good at learning spoken languages, however, I don't understand programming languages, I can't seem to find the pattern to have them make sense.
So everyone's brains are different, we get some things, and we don't get others. I wouldn't worry about it. Being bad at math isn't anything to do with Autism - there's plenty of NTs who can't get a grasp of it either.
Personally, I understood all subjects (though struggled a bit with chemistry and physics at higher level) and was good at them at school - but had bad grades which was mostly due to crippling depression and laziness. Since then I have acquired 3 university degrees one of which was Computer Science. Normal math was always fine so long as I could revise the general rules, but when it gets to Calculus that's when I get very lost and don't understand it anymore. I am good at learning spoken languages, however, I don't understand programming languages, I can't seem to find the pattern to have them make sense.
So everyone's brains are different, we get some things, and we don't get others. I wouldn't worry about it. Being bad at math isn't anything to do with Autism - there's plenty of NTs who can't get a grasp of it either.
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