OP here; my apologies if this is in the wrong place. I just happened to be googling my results and found an older post in Psychotherapy.

I'm very interested in what everyone has to say. I guess I'd say I've experienced my differences in ability as often feeling like I struggle to demonstrate the extent of my knowledge. In school I was great at algebra because the end goal was just simplification and awful at geometry because I couldn't extrapolate steps on my own and write a proof. I can study a subject for hours and know the material, but my application of it doesn't seem to speak to the extent I understand it.

As to the point about reading, I would consider myself well-read, but I'd put forward the idea that my habits developed because it came so easily to me from an early age compared to other things.