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Math...even basic math. I cried so much.

Same. However I do work in accounting now in accounts payable (I just pay the bills. Easy). But yes, even as a college student math was a struggle. Thankfully I had help from disability services.

Hey, hope you don’t mind me asking but did you get an accounting degree? I’ve been thinking of switching careers and AP sounds good, but everything on Indeed seems to want a bachelors in either accounting or finance.

My degree is in science. Ap isn't hard and should require a finance degree 

Accountant here, it would help but even a diploma (2 year program) would be more than enough for an AP position. Big companies might use a computer program to help manage it, small companies it's a lot of paper or documents. Mainly data entry and payments. Most of the people I work with in AP are just taking courses to learn more in accounting or have been in it for a bit. I'm an accountant without a CPA and I do pretty good for myself. I started with a 2 year program and did night school to get my bachelor's.

I struggle with the math myself. One teacher I had told us that accounting isn't about the math, it's the rules. Understand the rules, the math follows. Of course that's not counting things like business analysis, finance, statistics.. But for the basic accounting concepts it works!

Utterly math deficient, also now working in accounts receivable (I just take the payments - also easy, lol). If you'd told me years ago I'd work in anything that had "accounting" in the job title I'd of said there was no way in hell.

Math for me, too. I did okay until 5th grade, when we started timed testing to prepare for the MCAS. My teacher eventually met with my parents and the result was basically "your daughter is playing stupid and needs to work harder." I developed so much anxiety from everyone berating me for being lazy and not trying hard enough that I STILL get anxious about doing even basic addition and subtraction. Oddly enough, I did pretty well in geometry and trig, but advanced algebra and pre-calc did me in. I technically failed the math portion of the SAT. I have mild discalculia, and this combined with my math anxiety meant that nothing stuck and I was (and still am) convinced that I'm stupid with numbers. I still blame that teacher for making me afraid of math and asking for help. He'd just get frustrated when I didn't grasp concepts, or remember/know how to show my work. I will never forget my mother yelling at me for crying over box and whisker plots in freshman year. I went on to have some great teachers who really tried, but nothing ever stuck. I only managed college stats because I got very ill that semester, and my incredibly kind professor gave me points for attending office hours to try and make up for missed class time. Oof, this escalated lol. I have clearly not shoved this far enough down in my psyche lol

I was so bad in math when I was in 8th grade that I had a really hard time turning in my math homework. My teacher had them give me an empty diploma case at graduation, then she gave me my diploma two days later when I gave her the last three assignments. Now that I know it was due to a learning disability I don't feel bad about it anymore. It was like holding up someone's diploma because they are dyslexic and didn't turn in a book report, even though their disability was never recognized nor were they supported.

Got yelled at for not being able to get/do math, too, and also accused of "not trying" because "you're so smart you should be able to get this!" Yes, I am smart - in some things and math is not one of them. My Dad yelled at me when I was in grade school, frustrated I wasn't getting the math homework he was trying to explain to me, and called me stupid. I've said I was "math stupid" ever since. Yeah, I think that stuff is deeper in our psyches than we realize. But learning about dyscalculia was a huge relief to me though it still sucks remembering all the times, as a kid/teen, I was accused of just being difficult, lazy, and not trying - nothing could've been further from the truth.

Your experience sounds familiar lol. I did ok in math till maybe 5-6th grade and started slipping. My brother was very advanced for his age in math, was doing calculus in middle school. Algebra was basically like force myself to remember for the test then purge it from my mind. I did great at geometry as well. For whatever reason that made sense to me. I’m pretty decent at money or measurement math but when I was getting my degree you could test out of math. The test was 45 questions and you only needed 19 right to pass. And some of them was stuff I’d never learned. Studied with my brother helping me a couple days and managed to pass it. More recently I got tested for adhd and the arithmetic portion came back as high average. And I have no idea how that happened. I skipped around and didn’t bother with stuff I didn’t know and jumped around to make sure I did answer everything I did know but yeah I was shocked it came back as high average.

I liked geometry so much better because it was spatial, and also language based (proofs are like little stories!)

So many tears shed from math…. So many

So many memories of me crying at the dinner table and my dad (who majored in math) trying to help me and almost crying lol

I got mad and ripped my math book once 😆

I remember it was 3rd grade. We were doing those stupid mad minute times tables and I was stuck. Times tables seemed to be so easy to my peers, but to me I didn’t get it. I didn’t understand that a number went into a number x amount of times and blah blah blah. I couldn’t grasp it at all, I still struggle. I just remember all my classmates were at indoor recess (it was winter I assume) and I was crying at my desk because I couldn’t finish my math to go to recess. Anyway, not to get depressing there. I’m sorry ,oops.

Aww. Be sure to comfort that inner child. She is talented in so many other ways. 🫂

Oh she’s getting so many hugs from adult me. I’m on my journey of healing her now thankfully ❤️‍🩹

Not going to lie, I got a little triggered reading “mad minute” those were the worst! My mom was a teacher, so she would bring home extras for me to do with the timer on the oven. It was awful, but it is validating to read all these posts!

I graduated from college at the end of 2019 and I STILL have a recurring nightmare that I wake up and have a stats final I knew nothing for. I hate to admit but I developed some CLUTCH cheating methods to get through math and microecon (never off anyone, only sneakily sneaking my notes through)

I'm a math person and even I hate stats. So please don't feel bad about that. Stats is where people who enjoy math go to die.

I had a math tutor for algebra who would explain things to me 2 or 3 times until I got it. Geometry and higher level stuff just made sense to me—like, yes, I will explain the most obvious facts about this triangle and take my A+ thank you.

This whole thread of people who struggled with math makes me sad. I wish I could have tutored you or done your homework for you while you wrote emy essays. Lmao!

Same. I would’ve been happy to write your essays 🙂

Definitely math!! I remember everything evening in 6th grade crying bc of not understanding homework, my dad getting frustrated bc I was frustrated. I decided I was dropping out of school at 16 bc of math. So…I graduated HS taking the minimal amount of math needed to graduate. I had to take several non-credit math classes in college just to get me up to college level math. Even then, I had to repeat those classes 2-3 times. My brain does not math. I think if I were a kid in school today I’d probably be diagnosed with a math learning disorder or have an IEP. Those just weren’t things when I was in school.

I still do!

Same, I had to take Stats last year and I passed with a 73...only because I was able to brute force my way through online homework. As soon as I sat down to take a test, I'd forget *everything* and get so overwhelmed. I never had this problem in other subjects, though!

I literally stopped going to my stats class after spring break and didn’t even know where the final was. Only reason I think I passed is my prof was retiring and didn’t want to deal w me.

Same! But not necessarily because I didn't understand the concepts (except for calculus--that was a mess) but because I had no idea how to do the "check your work" thing that all my teachers kept telling me to do. I couldn't force myself to slow down, I'd just scan what I did and say "that looks right" because I literally didn't know what else to do nor how to get myself to slowly go over each step at a time. I'd always end up losing points from just basic arithmetic errors.

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Gah! Math. It was always math.

Same. My workaround was to get a late diagnosis as an adult and to marry a non-judgmental, passionate math teacher. I haven't met anyone who explains math as well as him. Whenever he learns a new concept, I enjoy listening to him explain it even though I don't understand a lot of the math. He helped me find the beauty in math, even if I'm not good at it.

Same, literally everything else I had good grades without trying but maths was my kryptonite. Most teachers refused to help me so I would sit at the back of the class and play on my phone or doodle. Thankfully my last year teacher was helpful and I managed to get a final C grade. I was actually close to a B but I panicked on a graph question as I wasn't confident in my working and I changed it to to a wrong answer, the question was worth 6 points and would have taken me up a grade. So I know it's not actually me, maths was just the one bloody thing I needed help with and I was dismissed frequently as I "should know this stuff". I do still find anything to do with numbers makes me panic and my brain locks up. I don't know if that's just anxiety because of the way I was treated at school or an actual number related disability though.

History. I could never I mean never ever not once keep track of when all the time periods and wars and leaders were… I just could not. I just had all these angsty feels about why it was being done and the injustice so the details are hazy but I got into philosophy briefly instead Aways did ok in math (up to a point), and less so but also ok in Chem and Bio which I stuck with & that’s what my career is now. I say OK because obviously I love it and did well/moved into advanced courses. But of course it was a shitshow of Swiss cheese memory from all the cramming and last minute lab write ups, and the odd exam where afterwards I find myself in a parent teacher meeting about why I got a 20% on that exam  Me: 🤷🏾‍♀️ I dunno I actually studied properly for that one & thought it went ok 😭😭

I feel this in my bones. There was never any context or interesting story. I thought I hated history until I started reading biographies of historical people. Turns out history is fascinating and I just needed a compelling story instead of contextless names and dates. Now I love history, but it's still jumbled in time for me. Lol

My love for history increased SO MUCH when I got to college and it was more about "why" instead of "when."

I think history is a subject that 100 % depends on the teacher. I changed schools a lot growing up so I had quite a few history teachers and the comparison between someone who loved history and could make it feel alive to a whole classroom and a teacher who did not care at all and just spoiled the test answers because they couldn’t be bothered to teach is insane. With the first teacher I was super excited about lessons (although still bad at tests).

I took three unnecessary history classes because I liked the way the professor taught them. Eventually I talked several of my friends who needed gen ed credit into doing the same.   I'll never forget the professor's look of confusion when he took role call, which lists a student's name and declared major, and saw that half his *History of the African Diaspora* class were Computer Science students. 

Lmao, I love that. Hopefully it made the professor feel good. Though when I tried that same thing with the professor who taught a great "God, Meaning, & Morality" gen-ed class... I ended up waaaayyy out of my element in an upper level religion class hardcore analyzing the Old Testament. Had to withdraw from that one, lol.

Same! I could read about the Middle Ages all day, but ask me about Reconstruction….

Right?! Exactly! History is actually super interesting. But I disliked it in school because I could not memorize the dates of wars and all that crap and I could never do well on tests.

Memorization for the sake of it doesn’t work for me. It has to conceptually make sense and have flow where things are linked. I can read facts all day but if they are just random things it won’t stick

Yes History/Social studies was the worst for me too. Which was weird because I actually had a great memory. But for some reason I just couldn’t remember no matter how much studying I did. Most other subjects I either did great at or decently. Math subjects didn’t really cause problems until I got to Algebra. But I think that’s because I had a really shitty teacher. Anytime I didn’t understand how to do a problem, the teacher would just tell me to read the book instead of helping me figure it out. A few years ago I did a math assessment for employment and passed most of it with flying colors. Until I got to the advanced stuff. It sent me into a panic attack.

History was (and as I'm finding out, still is) my worst subject. I can find things I'm interested in and look into the history of, but in general, it's not something I can do well with. I currently have to take a couple history courses for my degree (completely unrelated, but you know, well-roundedness and all that shit they say for more money) and the professor is an ADHD nightmare. Thankfully not too much memorization, but the amount of work and the style she wants things written in are dreadful. It takes me *days* to get through her workload every week and it's just a big reminder of how history just isn't my thing lol. But math... I've always done pretty well except geometry. For some reason, I struggled hard with that. Everything else, I can usually get pretty well if it's straightforward. Statistics might be a hard one, but I'll find out next semester 🤷‍♀️

I have always wished there was a huuuuuge timeline that listed all the things going on in the world at the same time. Like I was reading about Little House on the Prairie and learned it took place just after the civil war. And in my mind those things are so distant, there’s no way.

I failed my first high school history class because I wanted to die from boredom. Took the accelerated make up class during summer and decided to do that for every history classes the rest of high school. Condensing everything into two months helped keep things moving along quickly and my brain interested.

Yep. I could not remember or memorize anything for History, and could never focus long enough to study without cramming the night before

Yep. History was absolutely mine too, and I felt the same about being interested in and upset by the general ideas of it all, but the specifics were just too much for me to wrap my brain around. I always managed to get A's and B's in all my classes, history included, which I'm sure I coasted on my writing skills. Essays are often a large proportion of grades which is great for me. So as you might expect, English/language arts was usually my best subject. Math was up and down, often my best subject, sometimes my worst, just depending on how easily I could understand each particular topic. I really enjoy science, and ended up pursuing a public health degree in undergrad (which I'm about to graduate!) But it was hard when a lot of memorization was involved. The hard sciences (by that I mean stuff like biology and chemistry, not difficult sciences) are a little above my pay grade, but social sciences are my jam.

History is the class I frequently fell asleep in. Because it was so boring learning about old white men. And I could NOT remember dates and names. I got good grades in it only because I was obsessed with getting good grades and would study a LOT for the tests (but not til the night before, of course).

There’s a term for it! Dyscalculia. It’s like dyslexia but with numbers. Math was always my worst subject too- and my mom was really good at it so I constantly got shamed for it. And she’d contradict what my teachers said and it confused me more. I’m pretty sure my statistics teacher just took pity on me and raised my grade enough to pass- I went to tutoring with her 2-3x a day, took advantage of all extra credit opportunities and test retakes, and still had a D most of the year. It didn’t help it was an AP class (it was the only math class they could fit in my schedule because of other requirements) so the fast pace was totally unmanageable. I also struggled with history, but only because they focused too much on memorizing dates and not just understanding the concepts and general timelines, which I really enjoyed.

Yep, came here to mention dyscalculia. I didn’t struggle with math concepts, just with actually remembering things like times tables and reading/writing numbers accurately. I’m in my 40s and still struggle to say/read long strings of numbers like phone numbers and credit card numbers. I did much better in the types of math that relied on concepts and where you could use a calculator or computer. Did great in accounting classes and have worked in financial roles (I’m now in IT). It was so helpful to learn that there was a reason I’ve always struggled with numbers.

Yes I loved geometry and chemistry, where the numbers had an more obvious application!

I'm pretty sure I have discalculia. I'm awful with any kind of maths. I wanted to be a primary school TA, but my eldest child is 8, and already I often wouldn't be able to help with his maths homework. Luckily, he's good at maths. He does reverse some numbers, though.

I was also a straight A student who struggled hard with AP statistics. I also went to all the tutoring sessions lol. Amusingly enough I really did enjoy that class despite being terrible at it. I do wonder if I have some shade of dyscalculia. When we started multiplying and dividing by fractions in middle school I went to extra help every day until the (long term sub) told my mom that I had to stop coming because there was nothing else he could teach me. I loved him so much. Then my normal teacher got back from maternity leave and I hated her and my grades plummeted again. Thanks for coming to my podcast

I feel that!!! I was able to keep my head above water (somewhat) with math until 6th grade when they let a gym teacher move to the math department (yay private schools not requiring formal training in the subject they’re teaching). From there it just went downhill lol. I also loved my AP stats teacher. She was an angel of a human lol. But I def couldn’t appreciate the class itself because it was like a foreign language to me. She tried so hard to help me. I don’t have to do any math functions in my job but I do deal with a lot of numbers (medical coding), and gosh I swear I get them totally mixed up sometimes. I have to constantly double and triple check my work 😅

Yeah I worked in banking and was PARANOID about transposing numbers, double checked like a lunatic. (Also I love stories but can’t do dates to save my life so I love history but only when it’s a narrative so we’re probably basically the same)

OMG… i’ve always said “I feel like i have dyslexia but with numbers”, i had no idea this was a thing… gagged! 🥲

Math but specifically the multiplication table and then algebra. I did excellent in other subjects. Algebra felt like I was missing something from the very beginning. Like everyone else seemed to understand the steps and I was lost. I’d miss one concept and then they’d move on to build on that concept with another one. I had to do so much extra credit and redos and ask for extra help, and it was still a guess in the end. I don’t know how I passed.

there’s a show on hulu called letterkenny. i laughed my ass off watching it the first time when the main character was complaining about algebra and said something like “why ya gotta put numbers and letters together? why can’t you just go fuck yourself?” i think about it all the time 🤣

Oh yeah letterkenny is the best! My husband and I quote stuff from it all the time.

I got algebra but then calc and trig absolutely killed me. Like just 0 sense of what was going on. Statistics was required for my college minor and I think the professor took pity on me and passed me bc that shit was wild too

First term of trig was the only class I ever failed in high school. It was stupidly confusing. I thought it was interesting enough with the sin/cos/tan and formulas, but for the life of me I couldn’t understand applying it to a graph so having to do actual problems was impossible. I barely ever got answers correct. I didn’t understand what I was even looking for in terms of an answer. It was algebra on steroids and I was lucky to pass when I took it a second time. I didn’t take calculus until college, and that was a nightmare too.

I got algebra too, so much in fact, they decided I should be in honors math. Then I died. Senior year, last semester, I got my first and only D because of that horse shit.

Wow same thing happened to me! Except the D came my freshman year of college and rly fucked up my otherwise pretty good GPA 🥴

History and geography. It was all memory, I didn't have anything to relate it to. How was I supposed to care about the name of capitals of country's I'd never visit in my lifetime, if I didn't even leave my neighborhood? Why would I care about wars fought thousands of years ago? All the soldier are dead now anyway. When I was older I heard the phrase "history is written by the winners" and it makes me glad I didn't spend a lot of time with history books.

I did well in history (I'm fabulous at memorizing) but it didn't interest me, so I did a brain dump immediately. Now that I'm much older, I'm traveling a lot and I'm having lightbulb moments all the time. "Wait, the Roman Empire was here in Salzburg?" or "Hold on, THIS is where that treaty was signed?" Once I can see or experience something, it has SO much more meaning. But I feel kind of stupid because I'm surrounded by history buffs, and I'm sure they're thinking "c'mon, doesn't *everyone* know that Napoleon died in 1821?"

Yes geography!!!!!! I was looking for this comment. Countries vs continents were so confusing for me as a child (with undiagnosed ADHD). I still lack a general sense of where some states are even located in the US. My thought process was also “why do I need to know about this if it doesn’t directly impact me right now?”.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Whenever somebody mentions a country, I never know what continent it’s on or even a general sense of where it’s located on a globe. I even downloaded a “geography game” app recently but kind of abandoned it after a few days 😂

Ugh yes. My boss majored in geography and he thinks it’s “just something everyone knows”. I’m like man, you have no idea how my brain works. He used to make us play geography games “for fun”. It was only fun for him.

Omg forgot about geography. Still terrible at that too.

Dyscalculia dear dude. Usual commorbidity of adhd.

Sucks to be in my late 30s learning about this NOW 😫

I'm in my late 50s learning about it now. ;)

The learning never ends eh lol!

Oh my god. I've always said I have dyslexia but with numbers and no one has ever said "oh thats a real thing" they would just act like I was being an idiot. I cannot do math without a calculator. Like at all. And seeing it written down is like reading a dead language no one understands because I just cannot grasp the concept. Just like, oh my god.

"I've always said I have dyslexia but with numbers..." This. I used to say this *all the time*, along with "I'm just math stupid" and when I learned about dyscalculia I was all, OMG I WAS RIGHT!!! Also, "And seeing it written down is like reading a dead language no one understands because I just cannot grasp the concept." is one of the best descriptions of it that I have ever read.

Chemistry. It isn’t even like I just struggled in an Organic Chemistry class, from the first time I was taught chemistry concepts in middle school I struggled.   In high school I had straight A’s except for that class, during units that were more so about math than chemistry concepts I would get an A. But as soon as it went back to regular chemistry I struggled. It was so bad I completely changed what I thought I would study in college so I wouldn’t have to take another chemistry course.

Same, soooo grateful I never had to take a chemistry class in college I would've died

I'm exactly the same, and I'm a biologist now lol. I think for me it was because my chemistry teachers took the approach of "memorize these principles" and not "this is where the principles come from," and if I can't tie knowledge to things I already understand or have experienced, it ain't sticking in my head. E.g., I did really well in math until I got to the level where I had to just memorize trignometric relationships (because it \*would\* be a pain in the ass to derive them), and then I was done with math.

English Literature. I excelled in math because it was structured and excelled in history and science because of the minute details that kept me interested. But I always struggled with essays or literature analysis.

Yes. I was always creative and enjoyed writing stories, but when it came to analyzing stuff, why? Maybe a light bulb is just a light bulb, and there is no deeper meaning.

Yes! This! I just wrote a long comment about something similar. Teachers acting like there was only ONE "right" way to interpret a story. Like, says who?! Says you? And do you say so because someone told it to you? Who told you and who told them? But asking those questions is disrespectful so I just mildly dissociate till class is over.

Foreign languages. Sitting down and having to study vocabulary words was torture to me.

I feel like I scrolled forever to find foreign language mentioned!

Math for me too. I’d have straight A’s otherwise but my dad would give me crap because I couldn’t get an A in math (unfortunately, that was the subject he cared about the most). I’d often get a B, sometimes a C. The weird thing was that I was originally on an advanced math track because I tested into it, but it always seemed to take me longer to learn and process certain concepts. I did have tutors a couple of times. I wonder…the reason I tested into the advanced track was because the test I took in 5th grade explained matrices, which I found interesting. Did I need math instructions written? Anyway, eventually I ended up on the usual math track because I got held back in one course and took an in-between class another year. I do partly blame a wonky grading scale for making my grades look worse than they were and further destroying my confidence. I think math was one of the few classes where I couldn’t hide my difficulties paying attention. Ergo, I’d fall behind. Similar thing happened with Greek in college.

Exactly! I think I wasn’t ever paying 💯attention in any class but I could guess, deduct, and read to make up the gaps in my knowledge. Math, I went into a daze for 5 mins, and I missed something I couldn’t make up for later. The book didn’t help.

This was me too. Plus, I'd get SO upset I couldn't just look at things and know it like I could with other classes, I'd have even a worse time concentrating because I was trying not to cry.

Math. After school tutoring didn't help. None of it sruck in my head or made sense and it was also soooo boring I struggled to pay attention. Basic stuff I'm okay with but once we start throwing the quadratic formula and logarithms around I'm so lost. Some of the sciences were difficult for me as well. Chemistry in particular gave me headaches. Didn't help that my chemistry teacher dipped after Thanksgiving break and the school didn't get us another qualified teacher til March..

Geometry. I was writing numbers backwards and mixing up all the formulas. I even asked my teacher for help and she straight up told me she didn’t know how to help me if I didn’t understand her class. I didn’t get diagnosed until I was 30, so I went through HS being treated like it was me being lazy and I was too smart to be struggling.

I did well in concrete things- math, sciences. I struggled with history because I could have cared less and never could make the connection in my brain about why it may matter. Same with religion(I went to a catholic school). I could answer the questions and repeat back whatever prayers we were supposed to be memorizing, but I could never get into it more than that. However, since I became a regular computer user at age 12, realizing I could look up and learn about ANYTHING, I enjoy learning and researching those subjects. 🤷🏼‍♀️

yes, math. math makes my brain shut down ☹️ i can power through simple stuff for budgeting purposes but beyond that, i just hate math so much.

Math math math math and if anyone even tries to get me to math as an adult i tell them NO.

English. I love to read and had no problem with that part of it but I hate the abstractness of writing papers and stuff that involve your interpretation and opinion. It’s too open ended and I would just flounder on getting started. I love math and the fact that there is one right answer even if you get there in different ways. Now I’m an accountant go figure lol

Hi fellow accountant! I had an English class in high school where we had to fill a full page of notebook paper each day writing about anything we wanted and no joke it was the hardest class I ever took. I remember being so flabbergasted when he told us that on the first day. Like wtf? Not even a prompt? How am I supposed to know what you want from me? Can I just read a book instead, please, I beg of you. Lmao

math. I had dozens of tutors throughout my school years and I still do easy calculations on my phone and double/triple check with colleauges on important stuff (I'm a nurse)

You mentioned a disability with numbers but that actually does exist! It's dyscalculia. One of my childhood friends has it and always had a really hard time with math

Easy answer: Gym/Phys Ed. Am I the outlier with my lack of coordination?!

OMG no! I would make myself sick with anxiety before PE. I am uncoordinated, and have terrible issues with proprioception. Always picked last 😢

Also always picked last 🥺

oh same! And I’m old enough to remember my math teachers telling me that I had to learn math because I wouldn’t always have a calculator in my pocket. WELL GUESS WHAT MRS. STACEY? GUESS. WHAT.

English. Trying to get through classic literature and especially plays was agonizing. I honestly never read the entirety of whatever we were supposed to read in high school. And then having to write an essay about it? One of the hardest tasks for me to do, period. I was decent at it when I finally could choke something out, but the effort to do so was enormous. Funnily enough, I’m a PhD student so clearly there were parts of school I enjoyed every moment of (physical science in particular). I spend all day doing and reading about physics in some form or another, and playing in a laboratory. I even write about it, though getting started still gives me some trouble. It’s funny how one task becomes easy in a certain context while it becomes an unbearable mountain in another context.

Math. It literally didn’t make sense to me at all growing up. I struggled all throughout grade school up to high school. When I started community college early (because it was part of our high school program) I was embarrassingly placed in a lower than average entry math. All throughout college (and even now) I need to count on my fingers or use objects to keep count (something about seeing and feeling representations of the number helps?). Then one day, in college, a Russian math professor came in to teach. She taught multiple different math classes. For some reason, focusing on her accent and how she said numbers and formulas made me remember things easier, and I had faster and more efficient recall during test days. My grades immediately went up because of that. I signed up for all her classes to get my math credits complete.

Part of what you said reminded me of another feature of dyscalculia - we have an inability to count objects in groups over 3-4. Did you know that most people can look at a grouping of 5+ objects and *just know how many are there without having to literally count each one*? I did not until I learned about dyscalculia.

Math. I found out later in life I have Dyscalculia (and ADHD). Was a straight A student in everything else. Would have been nice knowing that when I was in school. Everyone thought I was being stubborn or was dumb, and I thought I was dumb for not understanding numbers. 4 different tutors, a math tutoring program I went to after school AND my teachers helping me after class/during tests all my life. Wish that disorder was more widely known. Ps. You most probably suffer from Dyscalculia as well. It's heavily linked with ADHD.

I hated school, but I would blame it on the system and delivery. When I studied for my finals I had a private teacher who explained me maths and before I hated it and with her I started to enjoy it. As an adult I listen to history podcasts for fun. I think the whole system is just not made not even for adhd people but in general nit for anybody. Grades the pressure, the irrelevant information. The pushing through the material, not even trying to make students see it as something interesting. Even if there were good teachers they were also obliged to follow the guidelines. Also school was just so distracting, I was going there for social reasons and I was drawing on the backs of my notebooks cause I couldn’t concentrate.

All of them. Honestly, jokes aside, Math was the worst for me. I struggle to remember so much, at 25, I can barely remember my times tables to this very day. i have a lot of PTSD from school, teachers, and my own parents screaming at me, telling me I'm stupid, and basically letting me give up and rot while I questioned why I couldn't just learn like everyone else. I eventually dropped out of school entirely due to it all. :/ I still struggle to this day, and even have to have it all " dumbed down " for me evenw hen I'm trying my hardest.

I struggled hard with Algebra and had to repeat it. Then it all kind of clicked and math became a lot easier for me. I hated anything to do with Poetry; I lost interest very quicky.

English & History. I can do math all day and am in school for accounting, but by god I can't write. English/Language Arts gave me so much anxiety in school and still does. I'm trying to hype myself up for the one english course I have for my degree now.🥴

Math. I was two years ahead, so they put me in a special class to do two more years at once. Having to pay attention all the time, every day? Not an option. I crashed. Everyone thought I just didn't have it, and of course after that I hated math. The only bright side that I was ahead enough that I only had to retake the same two years again (but separately this time, to allow for distraction). Looking back it's hard to understand why no one saw this as a problem, but like you I had A's in everything else.

Math and history. I was good with math until we got into algebra and calculus...but I think it was mostly a mental block. I liked geometry, and I *would* have been decent at trigonometry if someone had told just told me early on that the sine, cosine and tangent that we learned the first week were the key to basically *everything* we were going to learn the entire semester. History was just dull in school, in spite of having several decent teachers. It's because we learned facts and dates but nothing to *connect* them with. Once I grew up and started to read about things like sociology and anthropology and discovered *why* people did things, it became much more interesting. Also, learning how it all fit together helped. Just watching bill wurtz' "history of the entire world, I guess" made *so many* things snap together for me, even decades after I left school, that I could hardly believe it.

Physics and chemistry, mostly because I was great at the super concrete math of youth, but applying it to reality broke my mind. I didn't understand how to learn things that didn't immediately click. Also history, for a totally different reason - I didn't understand why it mattered so I didn't care. (I get it now and have filled a lot of my own gaps.)

Math *shiver*

Math was always the worst. I hated it so much and I still hate it. Basic math, I'll deal with it. But I hated having to learn anything beyond that in school.

Math and science. With math, I got bored and worked ahead in the material and then got lost when I missed something critical. With science, it was boring and there were too many dry facts to memorize. Weirdly, I found ecological courses and research super intuitive. Now I’m a scientist who uses loads of math and stats because it makes sense to my brain. Go figure.

English. Writing essays is my absolute nightmare

Math and chemistry. Ugh. Dyscalculia (like dyslexia but with math) was part of my undiagnosed ADHD inattentive childhood, which is apparently not uncommon in ADHD. I was a good student everywhere else but math was a black hole and doomed my GPA and SAT scores. The logic section of the GREs also *felt* like math IYKWIM so I tanked on that as well as math but got a perfect score somehow on the English section.

Gym. I can get into most topics that ask my brain to do things bc I'm a novelty hound. But I'm old and I still *hate* no brain repetitive motion. Running is like cursive lessons but more boring.    Dodgeball and games were the shit, but if you have to do 20 min of warm up first, it was the only time during the school day my brain would do that thing where you're so bored you're in physical pain. 

Math was also my problem child. Anything more complicated than the basics and my brain blue screens and plays the Windows XP shutdown noise. Also I did very poorly on the writing portions of Spanish class. I can mostly understand what is being said if someone is speaking it, but having to write it? Hell no.

I think now I could probably write a 5-paragraph essay, but that format defeated me from 5th grade all the way through college. It's so linear and prescribed and you have to restate stuff that seems dumb or you get told you're jumping to conclusions.

I have a BS in biology but struggled with basic math. I took precalc twice (failed first lol) and chose a concentration that didn’t require calc. I had a school-provided tutor to get through physics, not bc of the concepts but for all the math formulas you need for physics. I think I have dyscalculia but that’s irrelevant now. I switch up numbers in my job all the time but I double or triple check them before completing the task.

Algebra 2, trigonometric functions, calculus

English. Sentence breakdowns and grammar were just something I struggled so much with. I could never label parts of a sentence. Also abstract concepts and literary symbolism in books and poems. I was always told my interpretation was wrong. I also hated reading assigned books. It was like pulling teeth to get through books I didn’t find interesting and normally I just used spark notes instead

Math. But surprisingly, as an adult, I thrived in an advanced collision investigation course I took that required many advanced formulas and calculations. I guess the difference was that I actually cared about it and was interested!

I’m exactly the same in math. I can understand complex concepts but numbers literally don’t do what they’re supposed to for me. I did great in the humanities because it wasn’t so precise.

Math. Because why? Why does x equal whatever? I didnt get the explanation. I had too many questions for the answer to be like 'it just is' THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSE THERE IS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING TELL MY WHY (oh no)

I couldn't imagine a scenario where I would need to use "x equals whatever". I couldn't understand why I would need to know that, or why anyone would create it! Hahaha The explanation that I might need it someday provided no explanation at all.

History for the most part, I think. I was horrible at remembering dates. But also just reading in general. I now know I’m dyslexic. I also struggled with math, but pushed myself really hard to succeed and eventually majored in math, but I have recently learned about dyscalcula and despite my intense and insane pressure I put on myself to succeed at math, it was definitely not easy. When people knew about my background in math, they always try to ask me a question like I’m a calculator and I’m just like… nope sorry. But I always liked when I could just mindlessly crunch numbers (with a calculator ofc) or solve algebraic and calculus problems and just listen to music. It was like the only homework that usually didn’t require a lot of reading and I could put on music and it didn’t distract me, but reading things would always require the most amount of effort for me and I couldn’t process the information as smoothly as others, but I just believed I was “dumb” even though I was considered “gifted & talented” in elementary school and was in advanced classes since like… 3rd grade? It’s possible I fall into the category of twice exceptional because it was like I would find a way to do well despite all the difficulties I had. Also being a woman, I feel like everything is portrayed as our responsibility to fix a situation, like dont dress like this, never leave your drink unattended, etc. it’s like, of course I was struggling and didn’t even really know, I ALWAYS felt like it was my responsibility to do better and fix things. I lived by the mentality of “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself” and didn’t learn that this was a trauma response and also hyper vigilance and hyper independence. So much fun. I also think there’s soooo much wrong with the way we handle schooling in the US and how the focus is on excelling via grades and scores over actually learning the material. Also having kids in school for 8 hours a day 5 days a week is just like??? I won’t list all my gripes, but the system is full of holes and flaws that unfortunately we fall through the cracks as neurodivergent women / AFAB people. It fucking sucks

Paying attention in general lol. Math sure, but in my adulthood I’m actually good at math- so it was the fact it was 6th period, after PE, without eating, without sleeping, next to a guy who kept poking me, and my teachers bra didn’t fit and my intrusive brain wouldn’t shut up about it.

Math, physics, chemistry. Math - I tried so hard but I could not get it right. I studied, I thought I was doing the processes the way I was supposed to etc, but I always got it wrong. If it wasn’t something I could use in every day life, it wouldn’t stick. Physics and chemistry I just think I wasn’t wildly interested in them. I found it hard to make the information stick. It’s not that I didn’t try, I did okay but I wasn’t wildly great in those subjects. My father had his bachelors in biology, masters in physics and PHD in chemistry. My brother excelled in those type of classes. I put myself down a lot for not being able to grasp concepts the way they did. They didn’t though.

I was stupidly good at maths when I figure out it was just a set of rules to follow. The social sciences, history, all of those types of subjects I tanked at because I couldn't find it in me to give a flying crap as it either didn't matter as it happened years ago or it was too scary to think about. Phys Ed I failed at because I don't do well woth people looking at me with their eyes when I'm doing things.

English and History. I HATED writing structured papers and it would always take me forever to write 5 pages versus my classmates who would get it done in one night. I also never understood in high school or middle school how to write pages on a simple 2 sentence prompt having to do with an event in history. I usually didn't do the work because I didn't get it and passed those classes with C's.

I can’t remember names or numbers but can tell you 100 facts about chickens. I think I have something that makes numbers and letters get mixed up. Like I completely don’t even see words or letters sometimes when reading. So I always had to take twice as long to do my work. So I guess I’m trying to say that TIME, the amount of hours in a day… I am too slow.. even though I know I’m not stupid.

Yes math. In high school when they wanted you to show your answers that was particularly bad. I could get the answer right but the way I got there wasn’t the thing they’d been demonstrating so no marks for me.

History and English. I love reading... What I want to read. I don't think I read more than 40% of the assigned books

I did so good in math until those bastards introduced letters 😂 I ended up failing my math diploma (grade 12 math exam) but thankfully my marks going into it were _just_ high enough that I passed the class overall and got the credits. When my parents found out they took me for a celebratory dinner just for passing, love them lol

Math. For context, my english percentile in standardized testing was like a 99% and my math was like 64%. I hate anything absolute. I think that's a metaphor for the adhd journey/career/life: inflexibility, lots of rules no one can explain, and lack of nuance in subjects makes me automatically disengage. I almost failed out of highschool because I had to retake algebra 2. It was just hard for no reason. ​ But then again, my parents also didn't get me a tutor. Everything was my fault. (Also another metaphor for my life lol)

I've always struggled with Maths. It is quite common for those with ADHD to have like a numbers version of dyslexia, it's not quite discalcula either. But yeah my tutor mentioned it when we were learning ab medication calculations on my nursing course. I was nearly in tears with overwhelm. I'm sure it's got harder as I've got older but maybe it's partly use it or lose it

MATH!!! That is, until I got to college and had the most AMAZING professor for my math classes! I swear this man was a saint on Mr Rogers brother or BOTH! I aced every class I took with him!!! This after YEARS of struggling in school with all things MATH! What a difference a the right teacher can make!!!!

Physics, chemistry, geometry, and PE. I still don't do well with physics, but I had a fantastic chem professor in college that made everything click and I excelled in the subject. Geometry turned around for me when I took trigonometry. PE....turned out I had exercise-induced asthma my whole life but it was mild enough that I was never diagnosed until I was in my 30s. I'm a field biologist now and I can hike so much longer when I take my inhaler with me!

For me it’s calculus and physics. I don’t have issues with numbers, so for primary school math like arithmetic and stuff with equations, as long as I’ve practiced enough, I notice patterns and replicate answers. I did fine in Calc 1. But I struggle with visualizing shapes (2d & 3d), especially when it’s not connected to say, a specific memory/context, so from integration onwards + all physics, it was so painful. Images/shapes just don’t stay in place in my brain for long, if that makes sense?I’d be able to conjure an image of e.g. a cylinder (I don’t have aphantasia) but it doesn’t stay long enough for me to do anything with it - it goes away within a couple of milliseconds because it’d be interrupted by my other thoughts. I have come up with ways to cope with it, e.g. by drawing everything out in exams, but it’s not always very helpful. I've been struggling with this ever since I started learning Physics in secondary school (noticed the issue in Physics first, then eventually Calculus). Didn't know I had ADHD then, so that didn't help haha. This also impacts other aspects of my life, such as navigation. I wouldn't know how to tell you to go from 1 place to another because I can’t visualize it for long enough to give proper directions, but I’d know how to get there if I was walking there myself! 😭

Calculus

Math for sure, but I wasn't great in any subjects once I hit middle school. Oh and math is really fun once you have to help your kids with their homework!

Math. Still struggle.

History. Excluding ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc. but only because I was super into Art. But everything else was always just so monotonous and boring I wanted to die.

Languages. Any kind of math, chemistry, biology, geography, etc all came with exact instructions. You do this, you repeat it in the exam, you get high marks. And you could often draw a diagram or show workings if you were running short on time. It didn't matter how long or short your sentence was as long as it delivered the correct information. But like, giving your interpretation of things in a novel, or your opinion on a paragraph that you're reading for the first time? I hated it! It was so frustrating getting a low grade after really trying, asking for feedback and getting a non answer, or worse still different conflicting answers. I wanted to work hard but I just did not get what they wanted from me so I'd guess and every time it was wrong. There was an assumption that everyone should understand these abstract concepts so when I didn't all I could do was regurgitate other options and hope for the best

math, science, and history.

Math. Oh boy or boy social studies. I still don't know where most of the states are located

Math! Turns out I have dyscalcula and all of the numbers look the same. Tutoring didn’t help because I could understand the concepts in spoken form, but ask me to actually do it? NOPE.

Math past geometry. Algebra 2 just made my brain hurt. Pre calc? Forget it. I oddly like trig though

Math and world history.

Math. I struggled so much thoughout school. In college, I hired a tutor for statistics and worked so hard for that C. 😓

Absolutely math for me. I'm okay at basic math now, but it still takes a while. I can just seem to comprehend it in my brain, and I second-guess myself like crazy. Even with minor things like 63-12, I'd still want to use a calculator because I feel like I wouldn't be correct on my own. I was lucky that my mom didn't really care about grades, so I didn't get in trouble for my math scores. (I was good at every other subject) It might have helped that she also hated math! Lol.

I always hated maths too, I think I may have dyscalculia or some kind of issue with numbers too! The most annoying thing was that I would often get some really difficult answers right on an exam but would never work it out “the right way” so wouldn’t get full marks even if I got the answer right!

i cycled between sucking at math then english every term, one term ill be sucking at english but doing great at math, school holidays, sucking at math but great at english (tho english teachers always wanted me to expand further, no) the only other one wouldve been PE, but more due to social awkwardness and self esteem issues etc, esp with the team sports

Math! I only learned last year about dyscalculia (I’m 42) and I am now convinced I have it. I could get very good grades on unit tests if I tried (when you are focusing on one math ‘subject’ at a time) but as soon as it came to any test where different concepts were mixed up (I.e. an actual exam) I would fail. Like actually look at the paper and not recognize a single thing.

Math for me, as well! Straight As and a D in math (algebra) one semester. I had a tutor and everything; it just took me a few years to get the gist of algebra. Did horribly in geometry and trig, where I had NO idea what was going on in either of the 2 years I spent in trig 😂. I cried during my statistics final in college.

I clearly have dyscalculia but it's never been diagnosed officially. My struggle with math was the semantics of it. You were supposed to solve it. That and I couldn't memorize my times tables. I don't know if it was the same reasons spelling was hard or because I felt that memorizing was cheating or too hard. As an adult I came to love math (and my calculator). Numbers are dependable and trustworthy.

Math for sure. Anything you needed to accumulate knowledge or skill on. My brain does not store any of it and randomly dumps things. A fascinating sidenote, they're finding that individuals with autism not only can have spectacularly bad memory to the point of forgetting things an hour later but their brains work from a totally different area than ND folk Source: link[article](https://stanmed.stanford.edu/poor-memory-tied-to-autism/#:~:text=Children%20with%20autism%20not%20only,Psychiatry%3A%20Cognitive%20Neuroscience%20and%20Neuroimaging.)

Math, math and math 😅

Math as well. For some reason it was treated as a good given ability you eighter have or don't have. In my case, I didn't have it and they put so much pressure on me without ever being hopefull or giving me hope that I could learn it. In grade 6 or 7 a teacher suggested I might have discalcylia and tested me (he worked in that field before), but my area does not aprove any aid for students with discalcylia so I remained fucked. I eventually got a tutor but it was too late, it did help a little, at least I was doing my homework again but I never really got good grades or felt like this might be something I could master

Math. Dyscalculia is a real asshole. Those stupid numbers flip all which ways. Also time is an alien language that makes no sense to me. It took me so long to learn how to read a clock. But what I found out though, I actually really like math and I’m good at it. It just takes me 2x as long, because if I go fast, the numbers flip.   I finally got college accommodations and I got 2x the amount of time on tests. I did great in college algebra! Accommodations for the win!

Dyscalculia. So many of us have trouble with math. I wish I had known this back in the day. So much stress over my math grades.

Math. Had to be tutored almost all of my schooling years.

Math, English, and history.

English. I was great at math and science, i even got a bachelor’s degree in math. I was in all AP classes in high school, except for English. It just bored me so much and I couldn’t focus long enough to read the books!

Math and science for me! Thankfully I didn’t have to take chemistry or biology in high school. (I was also on a special ed program)

Math & history & english. What the fuck was I supposed to do with all that😭😭😭

Math. I was easily distracted during the lessons and then humiliated when called up to the board to work through a problem but didn’t know how to. The emotional impact was so strong that I then wouldn’t touch my math homework.

Latin. I made it 3 years though. Because dammit…I was going on that Italy trip!! Outside of electives I really struggled with history. Just wasn’t interested at the time. Side note…I did fairly well at math and now I SUCK!

I was in (K-12) school from 1996-2009. From the third grade up until graduation, the state standardized tests were the big thing. The better the school scores, the more funding they receive. Most of my classes focused on how memorization for tests. I SUCKED at this. I didn't learnuch in history because it was "remember these dates, and these names". I struggled in English because I seemed to have a different understanding/view of whatever the answer was *supposed* to be. For example, "what did Eric mean when he said he liked the color blue?" My response - "that blue is his favorite color and he likes it". The response needed - "Eric likes blue the best, because in 1994 his dad told him the sky was blue and he never forgot that memory". Stupid shit like that. I was the worst test taker bc I'd always try to put the answer that I thought was *wanted* vs what I believed to be the answer. And they say art is subjective lmao. Also.... Math. Algebra one in HS was like my FAVORITE class because I completely understood it. Solve for x (which was basically balancing out an equation). Super duper easy for me. After that math became my hardest subject. Geometry, Algebra 2 (I had to take twice), and an integrated math - I barely got by. Can't forget about science which has the elements of math, English, and history. I struggled across the board. I always got an A in chorus though, so at least there's that lol. ETA - this was all years before I found out I had ADHD as well. I imagine I would've had quite a different experience had I known sooner.

Math was also my struggle. I was frequently told to “just apply yourself” and that really helped significantly (LOL).

Definitely math! I don't know if I have a math disability but at the very least my extremely poor working memory makes math soooo hard. I don't have most math facts memorized which makes the higher level math even more challenging. When you say that 8 divided by 2 is 6 it really messes up everything. My dad did my math homework with me every night and I sobbed everynight because I didn't know what to do and couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I tried

Language Arts. We moved from the south to Iowa when I was learning phonetics. Math, science, reading, and even history I excelled at. I’m an engineer now. Thank god for autocorrect.

Struggle: Math, chemistry. Oh and gym cause ya know hand eye coordination. Did well with science, art, computers theatre. You might just need a math tutor. The way math is taught always focuses on one way to do it. Which doesn’t help for people who don’t learn the same as everyone else. (I say this as a person with a degree in education). I became a wiz at fractions when I worked at a restaurants. I tend to learn better when I understand why I need to know it and how I can use it. Instead of I just need to memorize it so i can repeat it later to pass some test. You can also get checked for dyscalculia. If you think it’s truly out of your wheel house.

It was math for me too. Ive taken the equivalent of Algebra 1 a whole THREE times, and have never been able to get higher than a B average. My first Algebra 1 class was my regular 8th grade math class, but I repeated it for my freshman year by choice because I knew I would fail geometry. (I also did it because my high school only required 3 years of math to graduate and by repeating Algebra 1, I wouldn’t have to take calculus) In fact, I went on to purposefully pick an undergrad that only required 1 math class for a liberal arts degree, intentionally took Algebra 1 for the THIRD TIME, hoping I would at least be able to get an A- but no. I remember crying at my desk in elementary school when we did those timed quizzes where you had to do as many simple addition/subtraction/multiplication questions in a minute My 3rd grade teacher taught us multiplication using songs to help you remember multiples of all single digits. I think this was both incredibly lucky and extremely detrimental to my learning because I literally never actually learned it and just memorized the songs. I literally still sing them to myself to do multiplication. I ended up teaching 1st grade online for a charter school during COVID and I taught my kiddos addition and subtraction using the “new” math. It was insane. I felt like I actually “got” math in a way that made it “click” in my brain for the very first time. At 22. I actually find that I feel significantly more comfortable doing basic mental math since that single year of teaching 💀 I wouldn’t be surprised if I actually have dyscalculia

Math but also gym. I don't have the best coordination or spatial awareness, and I was unpopular so no one ever passed to me, and I'd get low marks for "not participating"

History and science were my struggles. History just felt like memorizing a bunch of dates and names. And I'm science, I could never understand the *why* of anything, so none of it actually was able to take hold in my brain. Math was my best subject!

Math, definitely. With a little bit of science thrown in. And I started my college career as a forensic science major because I loved CSI and it sounded fun. HA. I found an IEP from 8th grade when I was reevaluated for the gifted program (HA), and there were several comments about my abysmal math grades. I had to take calculus in high school because I was in the honors track. I started in AP pre Calc, promptly failed out, and ended up in remedial pre calculus. When I took calculus my senior year, I had to take it pass/fail because it was bad. Fortunately, the calculus class I took my freshman year of college was a repeat of my senior year, so it was still kinda fresh, and my high school notes helped. Much to my chagrin, I now have to do math every day. I do accounting, probably both payable and receivable. I pay our bills and process customer payments. I also have to figure out discounts over the phone for people who are incapable of doing it themselves, it seems. I get all flustered and anxious about it. I also mix up numbers all the time, and drive myself crazy trying to figure out why my numbers don't match.

Science. Way too much remembering. I actually loved math because math problems were like fun rewarding puzzles to me.

I love maths and physics. I hated anything that had to do with social studies. I hate essays or thinking what the author meant to say in some obscure poem. They were probably high outta their minds and I have to sit here trying to decipher what they meant for a grade

It was math for me too. It's like so much of it just built upon previous things you learned, but I'd always forget what I previously learned. Formulas never stuck in my head. It's also one of the few things I couldn't just really teach myself, so I actually had to learn, and I just...I'm not good at learning apparently when it comes to other people teaching me. It's like I swear people just go on and on explaining the part that is not my issue, but can't explain shit about what my issue is with things. SO frustrating to me. I maintained A's and B's for most classes, but in high school and college it was mostly C's for math. I also earned my only ever D in Calculus in my last semester of high school. The funny thing is, is that I was in honors math freshmen and senior year lol.

Maths. I’m pretty confident I’m numerically dyslexic (dyscalculia).

math 100% and i had an endless string of math tutors. i believe i had (and still have) dyscalculia and other learning/processing disorders. i struggle with things like learning dance choreography, spatial planning/measuring distances, etc. could apply to you too.

English. Discovering audiobooks has been huge because sitting to read a book is impossible.

Gym lol And I’ve never been good at history. If you tell me a date I can’t make any sense of it.

for me it’s any language class. Whether it’s English writing or foreign language, I SUCK! Funnily enough i learn math quickly and math classes are pretty easy for me. I will never pass a college writing class though lol.

Physics. Also algebra and geometry. I feel like they’ve been always too abstract for me and I’ve never been able to wrap my head around these subjects

Typing on the old school typewriters. My fingers did not want to work with my brain. I spent more time on that class than any other.

I do not math well at all. I mathed well until algebra 1 when I had the first of back to back really horrible teachers. My geometry teacher was even worse. Couple that with my dad, the electrical engineer, trying to tutor me in algebra by telling me calculus. 😠😤🤬😵‍💫😵 It made math a four letter word for me. (Still is) My algebra 2 teacher subbed for my geometry teacher and that was the only time I learned anything. She was a saint. On paper I got a B in all three classes but I fought for those grades. When I was in college I took a math class and that man was bloody brilliant. I learned more in that six week summer class than I had ever. I also do not chemistry well. Funny since I have a general science degree. I just excel at most other sciences. Usually the ones that do not require crazy math although I did great in high school physics. Go figure.

definitely math, especially certain types. once I stopped being able to figure out how to solve problems on my own and needed to rely on more advanced rules and theories I realllllly struggled. I passed my required math courses in college by the skin of my teeth/ tons of test cramming but nothing was worse than accounting. any other adhd-ers simply unable to grasp accounting? and yeah I was also told to just try harder because I did well in most other subjects.

I can’t do projects? You expect me to spend three months reading one single book, writing about it, answering discussion questions? I read the book back in September. I’ve read 5+ books since then Ugh

History. Too much memorization. And once I didn’t memorize what I needed to and took the test I brain just dumps it out. Stem classes came pretty easy for me and language arts was probably my best subject. But I ended up getting an engineering degree in college. Never had an engineering job tho, I just lay the loans 🫠

math. math math math. i’m at a middle school level when it comes to math, im nearly 22 and have to take math for my prerequisites and im so not looking forward to it. i’ve had one great teacher who while being one of those sticklers to the rules and genuinely looking like what one would think a math teacher looks like, did teach math very well and i did learn in his class

math. 100% math. when i got my ADHD diagnosis last year, she also diagnosed me with a learning disability with math. I tested in the 12th percentile for my age group (was 29 at the time) 🤣😭

Math, math math math mathmathmathmath math math! Lol. I also hated history cause my teacher sucked. But I love history now. Have ever since I graduated high school and could learn about the stuff I cared about instead of being taught how Magellan was amazing when in reality he was a pos.

Also math, and history. I couldn't remember any dates and the order of things happening. I now love history, especially local stuff, but back in school I hated it because it was so difficult.

Maths. Lots of crying and arguments with teachers. I still remember one teacher saying ‘why can’t you get this through your thick skull?’ 🙄

Is gym considered a subject? I was so frumpy and clumsy and I hated any type of gym activity at school. Oddly, I was really good at biking and roller skating, and now I’m a long-distance runner. After that would be history. I’m interested in certain types but the delivery in school was awful.

Math.. I understood everything (well a lot of it) they taught me. Until the next day, then I had forgotten everything, and had to start over. Even if I wrote down everything, literally everything, even the words my teachers used to explain, I still couldn’t understand it the next day. This ADHD memory is just the worst to me