Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    Math. I’m embarrassingly bad at math, like can’t do it in my head, don’t get the math meme jokes, can’t add fractions even on paper bad. I took 3 remedial math classes in college before they let me take the one that actually counted for credit. Just thinking about doing math gives me anxiety. I know I could get all sorts of better-paying jobs if I was better at it, but it’s like my brain refuses to learn it beyond the basics. I really envy anyone who’s good at it.

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      There are specific learning disabilities around math. If you think your issue might be something fundamental about how your brain works, you should look into dyscalculia

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        I have this and I always struggled with math. I was terrible at mental math and I wanted to be better. I changed all of my clocks to military time so I had to do a very small and easy mental math problem if I wanted to know the time. I started to get better at it and now I am better than most people I know (not by a whole lot, and it does still take me a while to get more difficult problems done). I now enjoy trying more difficult problems just for fun. I also developed some interesting methods to chunk problems in my head so they are easier to manage.

        It’s not about hours of practice. Small incremental changes over time can be a better way to go about it.

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      I’m the same way. I just had to keep trying to figure it out, and eventually something clicked. I’m still bad at doing math in my head, and I found out that different types of math math more sense than others. Like I’m really bat at algebra and calculus, but I can get geometry and trigonometry. It just took WAY more practice for me than other people I know.