[debramorgan42]

soo.... I realised after all these years of suffering with this subject that it is stupid to think that I'm not capable to learn it (ie. no such thing is to be stupid with math) and I can recognize the path of mathematical logic everywhere in my thinking and problemsolving... even my chemist bf asks my opinion about the problems he is solving which is saying something because he is basicly half a mathematician...... so yeah I can prove myself I'm not stupid for it... yet I'm still fighting to start to practice it... experiencing the same problems with the additional feeling of "this is easy you stupid!" when I'm figuring out which basic things I need to practice first...
I've set up everything to technically acomplish it... and yet I cannot start it.
I need help. I want this very useful knowledge in my tool box - also I don't want to get cornered with them in a tight time-line in collage it'D be obviously too late for any good method than.
can you realte? how do you manage to overcome it? an succsesfull methods? (eighter overcoming it or methods for understanding/practicing)

[coolibrarian]

I relate completely, but I recently realized that, no, I am NOT stupid, that I have dyscalculia, which is a learning disability for math. It's taking me some time to get used to this idea, and to ask for help with stuff I don't understand, sometimes, like financial things.

[debramorgan42]

thanks! well this is not my case. if I don't think about them I'm good with basic things and I'm very good with finances... just not the terminology of science...

[Perna]

Realizing is half the solution. But it still needs a lot of work! It is never just "automatic" especially if it has not been worked at very hard in your past. It is a habit, working on math, and we did not get into it earlier. I did not pay much attention, it "bored" me and was hard work when I was lazy but I had to take a country-wide algebra test and scored in the 99th percentile for the whole country, many thousands of children over many years. My teacher and I just looked at one another but she quit struggling, just put me in the back with the other smart kids who were allowed to do whatever they wanted during class (pay attention, work on other subjects/homework, read, whatever), the assumption being she could not make me pay attention and work at it, but if I chose to I would do fine.

[RRex]

I'm a math idiot. I welcome all other math idiots and I have tremendous respect for those who understand the stuff.

I find it extremely boring though.

[debramorgan42]

I can understand that. even thought i'm a half-legged nerd lol
I find science fascinating and wanna try myself in academical setting....
buut I am deeply disgusted about elementary and highschool education of anykind.... for example I really like reading but I hated literature class in school (no matter if I got good grades...) and I hated the teachers for being closed minded.... and they hated me for being "disrespecful" lol
soo I can very much relate to things being boring.... but for myself I realised this is beause the certain missleading idiots who teach them boring as hell....

[Forget-Me-Nots]

I understand although I wouldn't call myself an idiot per se I am just very impatient, "impatience" it's a bad habit I wish to get rid of.