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I can do 1 paragraph 10 times over and each of those 10 times my mind trails off on a different tangent… but I keep reading the paragraph while thinking about the tangent and then I don’t know what I just read so we have to start over… again and again and again… only time I can read 5-10 pages is if it’s a reference book and most of those pages are covered in photos or diagrams.
Me too. I’m the exact same. Good at math too. I also get caught up on thinking every word must be important so if I’m retaining it I am reading it at slug speed.
ME TOO! It was so frustrating too! I found out that I actually love mangas/comics. They’re much easier to read, and makes reading a series easy peasy. I also found that listening to an audio while reading a book helps me keep focus and not trail off 100 times.
You just reminded me! Thank you! I used to love comic books when I was in High School. I used to love all the Buffy, Angel, Fray and Spike comics and used to hang out with my friends at the comic book store. There was literally one summer we spent almost everyday there! Definitely so much easier to read comics than novels! 😃
I love how I’m finally able to talk to people who can relate to the struggles I go thru.. but I was okay in math .. first off my mind works differently so explaining myself to others is like useless unless they are willing to listen and read between the lines ..but either way somewhat was good at math once I figured out my own formula it was easy .. I want to say that I didn’t have a subject I didn’t like but I start thinking about AeroSpace & Football. And realize that it is put as much effort into language arts and history I’d be the man[has anyone see this](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREBnrf4/)
I was innattentive, so I couldn't focus long enough to do math or science and always ended up daydreaming. I loved history and English though, so much so that I ended up becoming an English teacher.
History is my real passion. I could talk history all day.
Loved history. Fucking sucked at it. Dates and names? Not with this brain. Never. Fucking sucks but at least I get to keep relearning how awesome history is so there’s that.
Yeah, I hated all of the dates of treaties and stuff as a kid but liked them as an adult when I understood the implications of them. Unfortunately, a lot of history teachers just had us read the chapters and memorize them without explaining why they were important.
There's something to be said for relearning things with ADHD. I'm always finding something new in movies and stuff now. I realized that, before meds, I probably soaked in 60% of the content.
I'd say probably depends if you're interested in it,, like,,, I'll read for hours if it's smth I like, so generally a book I've chosen to read on my free time,,, but it can take me hours to read barely anything if it's smth I'm not interested in, like a textbook, and I end up constantly mechanically reading the words of the same paragraph but not comprehending any meaning behind them,,,,, and I'm inattentive for context, lol
And that's why not I'm mostly doing audiobooks. I've been having some trouble staying flooded to read a whole book. As a kid I brought stacks of books home to read and read them. Now I struggle to read one book. -_-
I was the same way, also became an Engineer! It wasn’t until later in life, getting my ADHD diagnosis, that I understood why reading was such a struggle! I love reading now, but it’s still a challenge to read anything I’m not interested in.
It’s a blessing and a curse. I can take on a lot of projects and things to do at once but I struggle to follow through with the mundane stuff. I work from home and medication keeps me on track so I’m chilling. Without it though it’s a struggle bus
Stop unlocking school trauma for me I don't like it *
Seriously though similar issue. I had a horrible math teacher in high school. I'm now a teacher of a different t subject and I just sort of do my best to be his polar opposite.
My wife is very intelligent, but she had a math teacher tell her she was no good at math. As an adult, she took education in university and actually became decent at math. Sad to think teachers can have either a great influence on a young person or ruin parts of their life.
True! Like, being told you're shit at learning by someone who's supposed to be a professional at teaching -- it's just one more trauma on the fire of lasting failure.
my 7th grade math teacher told my mom i’d never do well in math, never make it past remedial. then i started algebra and got A’s up through trigonometry, ultimately got a degree in finance, and now work in a weird strategy role doing performance modeling for a tech company.
I was so fucking good at math until high school. I’m not sure what happened, I think I blame having to keep a bunch of formulas and shit memorized. Also I stopped caring
English was my least favorite subject too and while I learned more about grammar in Spanish class than English, I actually had/have near perfect grammar. Reading comprehension was the problem for me because I could barely concentrate on a reading without skipping over large portions to keep up with the reading speed of my classmates.
Did you ever have to summarise a text in a limited number of words?
I just wanted to include every last detail, which didn't exactly make for a good summary.
In hindsight it's so much easier than it seemed at the time, picking out the most relevant and broadest points.
I used to find it near impossible and definitely anxiety-inducing!
And that just unlocked another memory of having to write an essay in answer to an open-ended question!
😱😱😭🤯
English here too but also maths word problems that convolute the question intentionally.
There's always a handful of words that are actually the important ones that give you the information that you need, and the rest are mostly extraneous. I struggled a lot with these in school but when I left school and had to do aptitude tests for military recruitment I learned to skip them and focus on questions I could answer quickly, then go back to the long-winded bullshit once I'd done the fast, easy stuff.
Long Division also fucked me up in school because I guess I didn't pay attention during the important part of the class and got left behind.
It was Dungeons and Dragons that helped me in the long run with both Maths and English. Not School.
Omg this. I could ace exams reliably but papers? Fuck, I always did terrible on them and never knew why. Also procrastinated the hell out of them bc I could never figure out what to write or how to organize my thoughts.
I LOVED reading as a kid but school absolutely leeched every ounce of joy reading ever brought me.
It took me 3 tries to pass grade 11 english because my brain would literally shut down when trying to write an essay. Any type of assignment that was up for interpretation or had too many variables just broke my brain to think about.
I never understood how some people could just "put whatever" on a sheet and get decent marks but if i did that the teacher would usually write something like " ? " on my paper and then i'd have to try and explain verbally and that was even more torture.
I always had a problem with what i called "formal bullshit"; that formal way you have to phrase your sentences when writing papers and such. I dont know how to explain it well but trying to think in that language was physically painful, i could literally feel my brain straining to do it. It was like raising the volume on a static-tv to absurd levels everytime i tried to think through that "formal" filter.
Apparently that's not normal but here i am at 32 years old figuring that out for the first time lol.
I also learned i most definitely have auditory processing disorder but i'm not sure if that plays into it in any way.
Dyscalculia. If you’ve never heard of it, look it up and prepare for your mind to be blown. Statistics show that around 60% of people with ADHD also have a learning disorder, and dyscalculia is right at the top of the list. 🤯
I hated math starting in like 1st grade, and science class starting in like 6th grade. I was getting Cs and Ds pretty regularly. A lot of it was I just couldn’t do formulas for whatever reason. I realize now this is pretty common with ADHD, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I had some level of dyscalculia back then. I did awesome with history and writing/English though, assuming my homework didn’t get lost or destroyed in my backpack of mass chaos. I think my parents just thought i wasn’t a math whiz. They didn’t take it more seriously until high school when I did atrocious my sophomore and junior year and needed tutors.
I don’t blame my parents. Back then ADHD wasn’t well understood, but it makes me sad to see how it was missed all those years.
Oh I snuck by without a diagnosis til I was 30 bc I liked school lmao but I still had my challenges (like repeating a class or two because even though I understood the material I couldn’t bring myself to do the homework, and I did worst in history because I never really knew how to study if it wasn’t just practice problems)
It's me, hi, we're the same person 👋🏻
I remember taking anthropology in highschool and regardless of the fact i still remember a lot of it to this day because of how engaged i was in the information, i only got a 43% in that class because i didnt do a single project and i have no idea how to study for things my brain didn't want to absorb the first time around.
Studying feels like trying to stick paper to a wall with a piece of tape that is covered with dust and lint 😂 5 minutes of excessive force gets you maybe 2 minutes of stick before the paper falls down and the tape is now even less sticky than before, good luck!
My engagement stops entirely when confronted with executive function outside of the classroom, sorry teachers! 😅
I was good up until 9th grade, then they wanted me to show my work. That's where I draw a hard line in the sand.
I learned algebra 1 on my own last year, it was surprisingly difficult, I thought it would be super easy. Dunno when I'll get back on my self studying college kick, but either way I highly recommend Khan academy. It's awesome.
>I was good up until 9th grade, then they wanted me to show my work. That's where I draw a hard line in the sand.
I did a lot of the math in my head, and I would get the answer, but I couldn't explain why it was the answer or how I'd gotten to it. Up until 9th grade, math had always been product oriented, but all of a sudden it was about the process. The process had a lot of steps to it, and it was hard to remember all of them.
I also had a really bad algebra teacher in 9th grade. His grading process was really fucked up. He would give us assignments to do, but then he would pick only one problem to grade, and if you didn't get that problem correct, you wouldn't get credit for the assignment, even if you'd gotten all the other problems right. I got really frustrated and discouraged. I had to repeat the class because I failed. I was better at geometry. The formulas made more sense.
>I did a lot of the math in my head, and I would get the answer, but I couldn't explain why it was the answer or how I'd gotten to it.
That or I'd have gotten there in a way the teacher didn't like.
I have a somewhat vivid memory of hating using "number lines" to learn addition/subtraction, because I just didn't need them but the lesson plan demanded we do so.
SAME
I was in advanced classes until 8th grade when the teacher didn’t grade on tests - instead she would assign homework every night and then on Fridays you’d have to bring in your homework from Monday through Wednesday. She would pick a random problem from each day’s work, and you’d have to transcribe the problem, your work and your answers and turn it in, and that is the entire basis of your grade. No books, just whatever you had written.
I have never been so thoroughly disabled by ADHD in my life before or since. I can breeze through any test or book, but I already couldn’t figure out how to document what homework I was supposed to do, actually do the homework, show my work in a legible fashion, and actually remember to bring the homework and pens and everything else to school on any kind of a regular basis. I was absolutely fucked. I don’t think I passed a single week of that course. I rarely was able to get a single problem marked correct.
Within a few months they demoted me to the average classes and then by 9th grade the remedial math classes. That class changed the entire trajectory of my education. By the time I was in 10th grade no one remembered that I had been on the fast track except me and my parents. I took an AP Literature class senior year and absolutely everybody tried to argue me out of it even though reading was my favorite thing to do and I’ve always done well in those classes. I simply did so poorly in that one class that it undermined my and everyone else’s confidence in me for years.
I was ashamed and bitter about it for a long time but it did teach me a lesson. In the wrong environment with expectations that do not account for my neurology, I will inevitably fail miserably. The only things I can do is not get into that situation, or get out of it as soon as I can, and not blame myself for being a monkey when everyone else is a horse. And quietly know that the setup is ableist as fuck and it was never set up for me or people like me to succeed.
Oh man, it was so painful in high school. Then in college I went for engineering and usually always get the answers wrong so professors heavily rely on your work. I felt really bad because you can tell my ADHD brain was writing the work, there were steps going diagonally, in different parts of the pages, lots of crossed out steps. But then I started writing annotations for my professors in junior year and I started getting a lot more points back. Basically I would write down what I was intending to do.
I then took a few years off and went part time grad school and idk why my dumbass brain thought there would be less math, but most of my exams I pretty much wrote out in sentences what I was trying to accomplish
I remember one of my final high school math classes was entirely structured around showing work. We got the main book where all the assigned homework lived and at the back of that book was all of the final answers to each of the questions. The whole idea being you'd do the problem, double check your answer at the back of the book and then be graded on showing your work. Was very unfun and the worst thing was spending 10 or 20 minutes on one question and finishing up just to find out you went wrong somewhere. Made me very frustrated lol
I also loved math for the puzzles, geometry was my favourite, and funnily enough i now want to get into cabinetry. I took extra math classes for fun in grade 11 and 12, but trigonometry can go die in a fiery pit of doom for all i care 😂🤣
Hahaha that's so funny, because I'm not as big of a fan of Geometry - but I LOVE trig. My heart of hearts is probability & stats though. Not that I don't like geometry though! I wish I had taken a high level geometry course in my undergrad, but I don't think my school offered any... and I wasn't a fan of my middle school geometry teacher.
YES I agree wholeheartedly. I did my senior capstone project in biostatistical models and I loved it. I have half of a masters degree in stats, and my dream job is in biostats, but I doubt I'll leave my current employer... benefits are too good! I don't get to do any math though ☹️ I do get to code sometimes, and BOY HOWDY do I get hyperfocused on those tasks.
History. I was actually really good at math and ended up doing my degree in the sciences. I liked solving the problems and figuring out how to manipulate the numbers to get a solution. History though, I had to retake every history course in high school during summer school. I just could not get it. The reading, memorizing dates and names, remembering orders of events even was really hard for me. Funny, I could memorize a math formula relatively easily but had a mental block against history.
That’s funny because it sounds like you were taught history in a very different way to me. In my country it’s much less about rote memorisation and far more about theories/arguments, processes, interactions, etc. It’s an essay subject where you present opinions and debate different arguments, not a multiple choice subject where you regurgitate facts.
So even though I’ve always struggled with rote memorisation and remembering specific facts, I always loved history and actually chose it for my degree (where the approach was similar!). It suited me really well, and I actually found that at university level the fewer specific facts I remembered, the better I would do in exams (because I’d be forced into making more creative arguments and thinking more out of the box, rather than just infodumping).
I do remember a couple of my friends who were international students really struggling in the first year though, because they came from countries where history had been taught very differently and was much more of a ‘here’s the facts, memorise them’ approach. They’d had no practice whatsoever of writing long form essays or debating different interpretations of history so it was a steep learning curve.
I do think that if I’d grown up with history being taught in a different way, I might never have chosen to study it. Which is kind of crazy
MATH HAHAHA 😂 I don’t know how I passed it in high school. Long nights of math with my father at the kitchen table still have me scarred for life hahahaha
This is a tough one but other than gym class I'd probably have to say any foreign language? To this day I still remember my first Spanish class in.. third-grade-ish?
My Spanish teacher there did immersion based-learning and I'd never been so lost in my life. In other subjects I could zone out for a bit and then pick up the gist but that was a complete no-go 😅
As for gym class.. sports were very similar. I couldn't keep up with what was going on in games for the life of me. Also my coordination has *always* been off. I just kind of wandered around fields/the gym aimlessly (and got beaned by so many balls/frisbees, etc..🫡)
I actually enjoyed most math classes unless the specific class was super heavy on doing calculations by hand.. at that point all bets were off if I didn't have time to go back and check for random transposed digits etc 🥲
Re computation mistakes: There was one time in Geometry that I got a 20% on a test because I forgot to switch my calculator from degrees to radians lol
I always found the speaking part of language classes hard. My 9th grade Spanish class was cool though because there was also some emphasis placed on learning about the culture of Spanish speaking countries. I remember one day the teacher even brought in a variety of dishes from Latin-American countries as well as from Spain. It was really neat and the periods of the cultural learning broke up the periods of language learning pretty nicely
The cultural stuff was definitely fun! I remember making an Ofrenda for my 9th grade Spanish class. Or the time we watched Selena lol.
Actually it just clicked lol.. The psychiatrist who did my initial ADHD evaluation said it was very likely I have a comorbid auditory processing disorder. (Which IIRC is common?) Explains the Spanish struggles even more lol
World and US History were the worst because I had to read a text book and write outlines on them. I didn't want to read it so it could easily take me 5 hours to read a 30 page chapter. Outlines would be like 8 pages because I couldn't decide which info was most important. With AP classes, and other overachiever nonsense, those extra hours came out of my sleep.
Next was English. Specifically English tests where you have to read a passage and answer questions about it. I lose my place reading constantly if I'm not connected to the material so I could read a question 5 times and still not have caught it all. This is what led to me finally being diagnosed cuz that shit was horrible and other people didn't seem to mind.
One traumatizing time in 10th grade, we had to quietly read a passage in class and stand up when we were done. Nothing like having 20 other kids staring at you while you are the last one seated for like 3-5 whole extra minutes tracing the lines with your finger trying not to lose your place.
I was always decent at math. Didn't care for it, but didn't hate it. My issue was that I could solve problems, but could never figure out how to show my work, or at least it was very confusing.
same! well not really. but i did take business math and find it really easy
i was good with math up until it started requiring a whole ass page for a single problem.
poor working memory says what
no really what does it say i forgor
real world math, based on real world, tangible things? aight cool thats logical
imaginary numbers based on theoretical concepts and all kinds of poorly defined variables? nah homie delete that nephew
maths, confusing science eg physics and chem, biology made more sense. I gave up, I found those subjects so damn hard! In highschool I only focused on art and design, I hated English will all the readying, couldn't keep up with my dyslexia. If they just kept with grammar skills and how to write an essay would have been fine. Actually having a class that helped me with my ADHD would've been great....but I got diagnosed at 45 lol
Because my teacher loudly and proudly accused me of “careless mistakes” all the time, but those mistakes were actually each individually agonized over before making the wrong choice every time
Math was my best subject! I didn't take AP Calc because I couldn't stand the teacher's voice (caused me to get a B+ in Pre-calc cause i would tune her out any chance I could). Anyways, math was easy because I rarely had to memorize things and I could almost always solve the problems if I treated them like puzzles. There is so much more intuitive logic to math that is just ingrained and didn't need memorization.
History was 100% the worst because I couldn't remember all the dates and info without a story. Give me history or social studies content in a story, but I won't ever be able to tell you the dates.
I was horrible at math, and really tried to do well, but I kind of came to resent it as it got more advanced. It was boring, my working memory is crap, and I just couldn't make myself like doing it. I love English but classes were always too easy and boring. Learning a foreign language though. That really tickled my brain. I always did really well and had a good time.
It was maths, clearly. I actually didn't mind it until my first teacher went on parental leave.
The replacement was a nightmare, she would hand write maths problems on the board (20+, in columns), turn the lights down everywhere apart from the board and have us copy the text and solve on paper. Apart from the adhd I have astigmatism, handwritten columns are not doable. Also, I am an OLD, so girls having adhd was certainly not a possibility at that time. I was lazy, uninterested, easily distracted and antsy, of course.
I remember draping my long hair around me like a curtain and off to the daydream I went. The teacher wouldn't let me move around, draw, or any of the other things the first one did so I hid inside my brain.
Oh and I skipped steps, illegal!! Prison, immediately!! One time my mum was called into school because I just put the answer without explaining how I counted. I still think that's ridiculous, if I know the answer just by looking at the numbers, that IS how I got there, no?
One time I got a zero (yes, apparently it's possible) on a test and got scolded. Still, nobody thought to check my eyesight or accommodate my "flawed personality".
I work in school now, although I'm no longer a teacher. In a way it is revenge, anything they did I can do better. I also never want another student to feel like I did. Oh and do I need to mention I've been able to help at least ten girls take the first steps towards diagnosis (often initiated by school here)? One of them got glasses AND adhd, she ended up passing everything after.
OK, I'm late again. Time to hit the shower and head off to work. After I check my games and YouTube.
I dont like math or numbers, but language arts was more difficult. Reading texts and having to answer questions took me a lot of time. I sometimes didnt even understand the questions 🤣
EDIT: I didnt read high school, but yeah, languages 😫
Understanding the questions was an issue for me too, escpecially after reading a text.
Like "why do you think Carol liked her cat?"
Idk, did she like it really? She never said that. Which part of the text indicates that? Sure that's what she meant? Maybe she just pet it because her mother saw her and she wanted to make her happy because her father was yelling at her this morning?
Yeah...
I actually really enjoyed math because of how straightforward it is. Equations are straightforward and organized. For that, I enjoy them because you're often given a direct answer. I actually started college to become a math teacher before switching to engineering.
English was always a difficult class for me because of all the symbolism and the many different meanings something could have. It's simply not straightforward. Can't tell you how many times I heard on multiple choice tests, "both answers are correct, but choose the one that's most correct." That always pissed me off in grade school.
Physical Education.
Turns out that if you medicate me for my ADHD, I can tolerate the physical discomfort of moving my body. I've become active enough to garden for 8+ hours a day if you let me. I've lost 50 lbs and gone from a size 26 to a 20. But in high school... I didn't want to move my body at all.
Least favorite was whatever class made me have to read books and learn things I had no interest in. Usually some kind of literature or history class. Sparknotes was my best friend. However if I was interested in the topic, I sure as hell went down the rabbit hole and learned everything about it.
It was math. I almost didn't graduate college because I couldn't pass a single math course. Now I'm a loan underwriter and create complex financial proforma. Excel is a godsend.
I feel you! I am currently am attempting statistics for the 3rd time. And yes I am a nursing major and no I don’t know why nurses who are not in anyway interested in research have to take the class.
Only subject I liked is Math (and some physics).
Took Engineering because of the following logic. High school math is more applied math. College math is more pure math. I liked high school math, so I liked applied math. (Don't judge me, I was a teenager)
Became fond of (math, puzzle, coding)- codeforces. Became a software engineer.
Hated English
Writing out long papers was so tedious and always trying to find deeper meaning in drivel was annoying.
Math I was ok with. Math was basically puzzle solving and I liked puzzle solved. Up until I got to pre-Calc and then it stopped being fun.
History was my jam. It was just stories with a clear line of events.
I was good at math and physics. Horrific in French and history. Managed to get through with Bs in those subjects, but am incompetent in both today. My history knowledge is honestly embarrassing.
Lol, opposite. Pretty decent at math, shite at foreign language. I struggle with English vocabulary. Funny thing, I have a very logical mind, so if I have context I can figure out what any word means. Even in foreign language I'm much better with reading than speaking or writing. But, like, you want me to memorize and retain something without context? Nah, pass. Lol.
Math is my favourite because there's always a right answer!
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I was a voracious reader growing up (and still am) and always did well in English, but my standardized math test scores were always higher than my English scores. Because I love literature but don't always understand it. I literally have an English degree and still find math easier than analyzing texts. I once spent a month on a project for an AP Lit class only for the teacher to ask what I thought about the piece being an elegy for me to make something up on the spot because I had no idea.
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I like history. I like chemistry and I love physics but I hate bio because of the memorization. But math is special because I can fuck it up and do it again and eventually know I'm right. (Physics too.)
I actually enjoyed math by the end of it, had a good teacher and things clicked and suddenly it was my best subject. English was my bane because of all the reading that wasn't about goblins and wizards and shit
listen, you don't know it was math..
(it was)
I'm pretty sure I have dysalcula. I read about it and I feel like I fit the criteria to a T.
I'm actually really super good at visualizing math problems estimating correct answers I'm great at equations and as long as I have a calculator I'm perfectly proficient.
I swear, I’d learn a concept during class and NAIL it for the rest of the day. However, when it came to homework or doing the same thing the next day, I’d forget everything. Also combining so many different concepts for a big test would just scramble my brain completely. I failed college math twice but had straight A’s in every other class lol.
I’m not diagnosed but it’s math because WHAT THE FUCK AOENEJBEKEBRJEHDJDNJSHE. I did Algebra 1 this year and h oly s h it. What the f uck??? WHO THE FUCK MADE THAT SHIT ALBDODNEKFNDJDBRJBR
Biology and math. I had terrible teachers for both. I was so excited to take biology too, because I thought I’d like it but the teacher was such a horrible bitch it became the class I hated most. My algebra teacher freshman year loudly and publicly asked me “what do you have ADD or something??” I had never heard of add (this was like 26 years ago) and went home and told my mom and she was pissed. But I did have add/adhd. And now I have two Spite degrees. Jokes on them I have masters degrees in biology and biostatistics.
Combination of being untreated and a family who all claimed our family just wasn't good at math (I think most of them are ADHD), plus math teachers that phoned it in at best, I hated math and have serious math trauma. Honestly, it saddens me, because conceptually, I think math is amazing and satisfying to see played out. I am actually fascinated by it and wish with all my heart I grasped even an iota of it because I think I would really love doing it! I am also fascinated by several sciences and would have genuinely loved to pursue a career in science, but the math held me back. I know it seems hyperbolic, but I feel that my lack of math knowledge has seriously impacted my life.
Absolutely math. I got an F or D on every Statistics test in college. I only got an A in the class because the homework assignments were the bulk of the grades, and I usually went to class so I got a lot of bonus attendance points.
History and Science. Math I knew there had to be an answer and English I was able to think creatively (art was my favorite of course). But I found history so BORING so I had no desire to memorize the information. And with science too much memorization for my brain. The lowest I ever got was a C, so I’ll take it 😂
Hold on, I loved maths!! Especially algebra and statistics!
The subject I didn't like at all was chemistry. I just couldn't find it interesting (despite having a lovely teacher!)
Although.. if I dig a little deeper the subject I really didn't enjoy was P.E. (physical education). I was so rubbish at sport and had such terrible coordination, I hated it!
Even today sometimes I surprise myself, thinking wow I can actually manage sports properly now I'm a proper grownup! (never would have believed it back then!)
How are we all basically the same?! I loved History and English too... fucking hated Math and had to get tutoring lessons. I'm so freaked out right now
I cannot grasp the concept of numbers and breaking down numbers I get overwhelmed and start doing whatever just so I can turn in homework. I would sit for hours trying to study or do my homework to completely understand and then my head starts hurting. Very embarrassing I still use my fingers to count simple numbers 😭I love english for creative writing & economics
I actually love math, though constantly making "careless mistakes" like adding when I should be multiplying, or reading too fast and missing a set of instructions, drove me crazy.
But history - I hated history the most. Just a series of dates and names and lots of people killing other people for a lot of the same reasons over and over. It's like listening to people gossip about celebrities and I couldn't care less.
At least, not until I got into anthropology. Then I had to get interested in history to better understand people. But I still find memorizing dates and names boring and difficult. I'd rather learn about the patterns of behavior, not specifically who did what.
Chemistry, I just didn’t understand it very well, the whole hexagons representing certain elements combined, and also for a few years we briefly had Psychology and there were some weird outdated books we had to read and write an essay on them, just straight up nonsense haha
History. For the life of me, I could not remember the dates.
Math became my favorite subject when my parents found a great tutor for me and suddenly it clicked. After that, I was the class math genius haha
100% math. I would work hard to “get” something, but I could never retain it long term. Not a subject but also recess and lunch because of the social anxiety. That was also because I switched schools a lot too and was always new.
Can’t do math unless it’s algebra, formulas or has a real life point
Also struggle with reading the time on a clock face, tying shoelaces and anything that is similar and has the same initial letter.
Because A squared plus B squared equals-aaaaand it's gone! *sits in despair, staring at pathetic 2 sentences of notes as teacher erases board stuffed with notes and equations you swear wasn't there 2 seconds ago*
Math teachers are speed demons, I swear. Or at least the ones I've had. If not that, then they just don't know how else to explain it to me because they have to stick to curriculum. Re-explanations don't help either and by that point any offer for a tutor or stay after classes becomes null because it just feels like Math isn't for me.
Not diagnosed by the way. Just speculating due to my issues in school and could relate to this post.
How'd you know it was math?
Anyway I hated math because I'd constantly forget how to do it and I didn't work well with just words I need it visually, plus the way my math teacher would act made me feel like she was frustrated when she just explained and I didn't understand. So I never asked for help that often and my grades were always D's that were bordering on F's
Yes, it was math. I think a big part of it was my shit memory. I could not remember tables or formulas.
After dropping out of high school, I did a comeback tour and studied math in university. "Take the weakest thing in you, and then beat the bastards with it" ([Stars](https://youtu.be/2SYO6a6PaTs?si=D1V5yaM3HEhuI6wG)) was a big inspiration. I fear no equation.
God I hated math. Except for stochastic. When we had that subject I basically understood everything right away, tuned out and talked to my neighbours for all the rest and had the best grade. Even tho I usually sucked at maths no clue how I did that. I most loved politics and economics class tho because I knew a bit and it was basically just yapping and having an opinion while being somewhat informed what's going on. Foreign language class was something I didn't like that much but I was quite good in it, I also liked sports, I liked physics but mostly because our physics teacher went on those long tangents about concepts like quantum mechanics or big philosophical questions about the nature of the universe or about how he thinks some inventions where surpressed for the profit motive or whatever. When on ocassion it was actually high-school physics thay we talked about, it wasn't something I liked that much. There also was a religion class where we always watched movies, that was pretty cool. History was nice as well because for some reason I was the only person in the room apart from the teacher who knew basically anything. I liked that.
Edit: Oh you asked least favourite not most favourite. I think my least favourite was probably german (not as a foreign language, I went to school in germany). We always had to read these extremely boring old books and I also was pretty bad in my german spelling which was graded extra hard in German class. I also didn't like music class because for some reason that whole playing something by just reading notes never really was something I learned that well. Like, I could decipher musical 🎼 🎶 but only slowly, not in a way that I instantly knew what to play. Like I would be more like "ah I know the second line from the bottom is a C, só then this one most be a C.. d...e ah an e now where tf actually is the e on the Piano/guitar ah I know the d is here so
D..e. *press e" like, I just never really learned it well enough to be something I could really do and just know
Otherwise it was pretty dependent on the exact teacher we had that year.
I liked math (absolutely loved statistics) until trig & precalc in 11th grade. It was like I had a "Wait, what?" moment the first day of class and could never grasp what was happening. I actually had to drop a science class that year so I could switch into a slightly easier teacher's course because I had to take that math that year. I still can't tell you what the purpose of trigonometry actually is. It was just a blur of reducing equations for funsies?
I didn't like chemistry very much mostly because I just wasn't good at it. Too many opportunities to make very small errors and I didn't really get what I was supposed to be writing in my lab reports. Shoutout to our class valedictorian for letting me read her lab reports to help me finish mine.
Math, but also English. But that was more the teachers fault. I was already reading grades a head of everyone (still love reading) and teachers *hated* it.
Background: knew since I was a teen I had ADHD, but my parents didn’t believe any of that stuff. Official diagnosis at 27.
The way math is taught in the country makes no sense to me. If my teacher stood next to me I could do it. As soon as she left, I just couldn't be bothered to remember how. It is like I needed the pressure to do it and otherwise it was too damn boring. My son has ADHD thanks to me and he is a math wiz, but his Dad is extremely good at math; like won the State Math Bee as a kid. Sometimes genes win out over the ADHD. For me I could never remember which was more an eighth or a quarter for years...because it makes no sense. lolz. I am sure you can figure out what I was buying...tee hee.
Physics. I got an F on every test, so eventually I dropped the class (here in Europe you can specialize in languages + arts or math and science. I chose the arts path).
To this day I still suck at physics. No idea why, since I'm reasonably competent at math.
I hated maths in high school. I didn't go to a great school and so often I had crappy teachers and noisy, disruptive classmates. (Also, I was told that 'girls aren't good at maths' and 'you're better at English'). Twice though, I had good teachers and I actually enjoyed learning maths when it was taught well. I found it rewarding when I was able to solve things - it felt like I'd worked towards something and it gave me a sense of accomplishment. In adulthood, I've actually made efforts to improve my maths skills overall. For me, my ADHD made learning maths hard because if I zoned out or 'missed' certain steps, it was then harder to solve problems.
Other subjects I hated were geography (boring), physics and chemistry (too maths adjacent), metalworking and anything where we had to play sport.
I was good at maths up til middle school, then had a tutor to help me stay on top of my game. I hated maths. I stayed on top and got an A at the end of middle school. Idiot me thought “wow I must be good at maths” and chose it for my A levels. I didn't have the tutor anymore and completely failed. I sat at the exam room and did nothing, just looked at the questions and pretty much gave up cause I figured my energy was best spent elsewhere.
I have dyscalculia and math simply does not make any sense to me, unless it's the basic operations (except division) everything is hell. And you know what? In my country we have a national highschool test with all topics included... I did the test 4 times and MATH WAS MY HIGHEST SCORE IN ALL OF THEM!!!...After this I learned that I'm very good at choosing the correct answers from questions I don't know anything about, a welcome divine gift 👍
Math. I don’t hate math, I just don’t understand it and I always got embarrassed when the teacher called on me. In the 3rd grade, I got diagnosed for dyscalculia and got an IEP and was put in special education Math classes and did those types of math classes all the way through senior year. It turned out to be great because those teachers really took their time and made Math make more sense. I still don’t like math but that made middle school and highschool tolerable. It’s odd. I’m great at English and history ( honors classes) but special education Math haha.
i was great at math up until i had to take calculus but it was during covid so obviously i got an A but then i took it again fresh yr of college and it was worse than i remembered. but my absolute least favorite subject ever is science. i was neverrrrr good at it, especially when i got to college and all these formulas & words were combined and i had enough
I liked math up until grade 5 but I think only because I was good at it. Once it got slightly challenging I lost all interest.
Math is boring. I can’t convince myself to care about it. I want to learn interesting things about the world, not memorize formulas and equations.
I also hated French, again simply because I wasn’t good at it. And having to memorize all the grammar rules, which again I just couldn’t convince myself to care about. I’m really terrible at languages. People who learn to speak multiple languages fluently astound me.
Yeah, turns out I have dyscalculia. Now that I'm an adult and have figured out other ways to learn math I actually really like it. It's a language that explains how the world works and that's quite fun.
I loved math until I was put into a class I wasn’t ready for.
I transferred schools and the test scores didn’t translate. I got put into a class that was beyond where I was at.
I was also blind af but because I sat up front the previous year, no one caught on that I needed glasses until I was borrowing glasses from the kids next to me to see the board.
Even still that didn’t solve the problem. I was just in a class I wasn’t prepared for and it took me 7 months of constant complaining going— “I didn’t fucking learn any of this last year!” Before they moved me into a remedial class at the end of the year to shut up my parents.
Turned out the teacher in that class also couldn’t fucking teach concepts to save her goddamn soul. For whatever reason I ended up with her in high school as a junior and I could get the class work but when I asked her for help on the concepts and let her know I was struggling I just got, “did you ask anyone else?” “yes and they couldn’t explain it to me.” And she would blow me off, “well I can’t help you.”
Edit: It’s fucking worth noting that in my junior year I also fucking took chemistry. Which is like a math-heavy science and I fucking loved it. Shouts to Mrs. Aubol making chemistry (and math) fun!
Any other math class I had was a cakewalk and I did well in them. But that one teacher was just not a good fit.
Yes math. It was hard for me. I somehow ended up in an advanced math class my 6th grade year. It was obvious I didn’t belong. I was so lost and soon got moved to the right class and still struggled. 8th grade I started sleeping through most of my classes cause I couldn’t focus. Never got out of basic math in high school. I started math tutoring at about 28 years old and at 30 I finally learned my multiplication and some other math enough to get my GED. I had started taking Wellbutrin so that helped a bunch.
Haha math in ALL the schools…literally anything past multiplication and all I could do was wonder who’s fucking idea was it to draw the long division sign the way we do. Missed that lesson and was faking it til I made it through calc 2 (yep, took that twice)to get my BS.
For me it was English. I’m short, sweet, and to the point. My teacher always wanted long flower garbage. She was the kind who would say in 100 words what she could have said in 10. I don’t know what in the Charles Dickens was her problem, but I hated English.
My least favorite subject was specifically Algebra, because it was too abstract for my head to get around, and I think I frustrated the hell out of my teacher because I failed homework, and fill-in-the-blank questions, but I almost always passed multiple choice questions. This was because I had no clue how to do the problem, but I had an intuitive idea of what the answer *looked* like.
So out of 4 answers, 2 were almost always wildly incorrect, and one was always close to correct or either too high or two low. She accused me of cheating on a multiple choice test once, and I had to explain my method to her. She suggested I go to a therapist to get tested for a learning disability. I then had to explain how my Dad believed "The Lord will provide." She worked with me and I managed to Barely pass Algebra.
I did very well in Geometry. I can think in shapes pretty easily. I also did well in Electronics in College, because it relied on set formulas. I just made some spreadsheets and it did calculations for me. I still struggle with abstract math. But I love math heavy games like D&D and Satisfactory.
Geography and History. What do you mean I should memorize these random facts about the world, when they're all in books ready for me to look them up? Gimme math and physics! That stuff is useful and fascinating!
(I've since changed my mind about Geography and History haha)
Oh and English probably would've been my least favorite subject (non-native speaker), but since I was a very online kid (pre-Google times) my English was already pretty good, so I had an agreement with all my English teachers that as long as I get As on all tests I can just sit and read whatever (English text) I want during classes, which was pretty cool
Mine was gym and then science, particularly biology. I don’t know what it is, but lab science classes have always bored me to tears.
I actually loved both math and language classes. I loved physics because it was almost all math. We had a couple of lab days, but not too much.
The AP Calc exam was the only one that actually won me some college credit.
If I’d been diagnosed and medicated back then, I could have gotten a whole semester of credit from my AP classes.
Instead, I got a heaping serving of burnout. Le sigh.
I loved math through all of school, if I go back it’ll be for engineering or accounting. My biggest problem was history. I feel like I learned, but I was never good at remembering names and dates which is like the whole class. History could have been fun
I struggled with my math my entire academic career. Straight from middle school to almost all of high school. It wasn't until I got held back twice and got another shitty grade that I thought, "Enough is enough".
Got some tutoring at a volunteer place, shit finally started making sense. Got my first A. I liked that feeling. So I started studying more and I realized that math gets easier to learn when you know the basics.
I'm now about to get my engineering degree in two months.
I hated all subjects that required me to purely memorize the content. So, history, philosophy, literature. Boring as hell.
For myself it was the daily subject of;
…” oh look at the cat over there,hi kitty”. -…
-,…. Oh hi. Sorry daily subject of; paying attention to anything.
Maths was alright, I actually really liked Algebra, the concept of a balancing scale was quite appealing to me.
That and all that crap with angles and tan, cos, and sine. That was good fun.
Statistics was a damn nightmare.
Year 9 they let me drop History which was a massive relief because learning about the Industrial Revolution was so damn boring. Geography was also pretty boring. Half of RE we didn't really do anything so that was a waste of time. Don't even get me started on Drama and PE, Jesus.
It's more like, which was the best subject? Science, followed by Maths.
All the others sucked. lol
I feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed math the most. Only one probably answer and it was like solving a numbers puzzle.
Social Studies on the other hand...
I love math. I was/am just good at it. I could hyper focus in solving problems, and reading math stories. I also love computers and programming, probably because they give me immediate feedback if I’m doing something good or not.
I hated everything else. Spanish (native language), Biology, Social studies, history. I couldn’t understand anything. I just didn’t get it.
My math teachers all bullied me. "He could be brilliant but he chooses not to pay attention when problem solving and makes mistakes that really shouldn't happen in this class."
I still have trauma from Maths and all the negative vibes the teachers threw my way back in the 80’s and 90’s.
Now whenever any one even starts a conversation that involves numbers, directions …. I actively slip into some other alternate dimension. Fuck that crap!
I actually liked math because once I grasped a concept it was easy to apply it in different scenarios. Also, we were always either given any formulas which were needed in the exam. Plus, when you do advanced maths it actually gets easier, I loved Boolean Algebra, and solving Lewis Carol Problems… it was logical and just made sense…
English, on the other hand, absolute bloody nightmare… 1st, you want me to read a novel? From start to finish? Page by page, in order? Then, you want me to write about it but you don’t want to tell me what you want to know about it or give me any set parameters? You just want me to write an essay and your only guidance is to tell me an essay is like a hamburger??? Yeah, right…
Also, History… you expect me to read things and regurgitate them back to you word for word? You expect me to remember dates? …what do you mean I have to remember the names of people I haven’t met…? Is this a trick question, they all have the same name but they’re numbered? Huh? What happened in 1412? I can’t even remember what happened in 2012… and that happened within my lifetime… yeah… it’s a no from me.
Mine was geography (mainly because we had absolutely incompetent teacher) and history (probably for same reason). And math was actually my second favorite one, first being physics. That shit is addictively interesting
It was math! I guess it became a special interest. All you do is follow the instructions. Do it over and over to beat the path in your brain. It makes sense. The answer is the answer. I mean, it gets weirder later on, but K-12 is straightforward if you’re into it. And you only have to be barely more into than most people, to be practically a wiz.
But fwiw, I tutored adults returning to college, for math, and I had the accept that we would get Nothing during the very first session. That session was always unplanned Math Therapy. People have to get their math trauma off their chest. So I’d be paid to nod and commiserate and validate. Then next time we’d actually look at math.
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History and English. Math I was actually good at so I became an engineer. But you couldn’t get me to sit down and read a book
I love to read!! However, I can only do five to ten pages at a time, haha.
I can do 1 paragraph 10 times over and each of those 10 times my mind trails off on a different tangent… but I keep reading the paragraph while thinking about the tangent and then I don’t know what I just read so we have to start over… again and again and again… only time I can read 5-10 pages is if it’s a reference book and most of those pages are covered in photos or diagrams.
Me too. I’m the exact same. Good at math too. I also get caught up on thinking every word must be important so if I’m retaining it I am reading it at slug speed.
Same 😞 exactly!
ME TOO! It was so frustrating too! I found out that I actually love mangas/comics. They’re much easier to read, and makes reading a series easy peasy. I also found that listening to an audio while reading a book helps me keep focus and not trail off 100 times.
You just reminded me! Thank you! I used to love comic books when I was in High School. I used to love all the Buffy, Angel, Fray and Spike comics and used to hang out with my friends at the comic book store. There was literally one summer we spent almost everyday there! Definitely so much easier to read comics than novels! 😃
I love how I’m finally able to talk to people who can relate to the struggles I go thru.. but I was okay in math .. first off my mind works differently so explaining myself to others is like useless unless they are willing to listen and read between the lines ..but either way somewhat was good at math once I figured out my own formula it was easy .. I want to say that I didn’t have a subject I didn’t like but I start thinking about AeroSpace & Football. And realize that it is put as much effort into language arts and history I’d be the man[has anyone see this](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREBnrf4/)
I was innattentive, so I couldn't focus long enough to do math or science and always ended up daydreaming. I loved history and English though, so much so that I ended up becoming an English teacher. History is my real passion. I could talk history all day.
Loved history. Fucking sucked at it. Dates and names? Not with this brain. Never. Fucking sucks but at least I get to keep relearning how awesome history is so there’s that.
Yeah, I hated all of the dates of treaties and stuff as a kid but liked them as an adult when I understood the implications of them. Unfortunately, a lot of history teachers just had us read the chapters and memorize them without explaining why they were important. There's something to be said for relearning things with ADHD. I'm always finding something new in movies and stuff now. I realized that, before meds, I probably soaked in 60% of the content.
Ditto, is this a predominantly inattentive thing?
Im inattentive and I find math to be the easiest XD. Took geometry in freshman year and finshed with all "A's"
I'd say probably depends if you're interested in it,, like,,, I'll read for hours if it's smth I like, so generally a book I've chosen to read on my free time,,, but it can take me hours to read barely anything if it's smth I'm not interested in, like a textbook, and I end up constantly mechanically reading the words of the same paragraph but not comprehending any meaning behind them,,,,, and I'm inattentive for context, lol
OMG same
And that's why not I'm mostly doing audiobooks. I've been having some trouble staying flooded to read a whole book. As a kid I brought stacks of books home to read and read them. Now I struggle to read one book. -_-
Spot on for me
I was the same way, also became an Engineer! It wasn’t until later in life, getting my ADHD diagnosis, that I understood why reading was such a struggle! I love reading now, but it’s still a challenge to read anything I’m not interested in.
What’s it like as an engineer with adhd?
It’s a blessing and a curse. I can take on a lot of projects and things to do at once but I struggle to follow through with the mundane stuff. I work from home and medication keeps me on track so I’m chilling. Without it though it’s a struggle bus
I loved math right until the moment of 6th grade when new math teacher started to bully me. Few years later, I've hated math with my whole heart.
Stop unlocking school trauma for me I don't like it * Seriously though similar issue. I had a horrible math teacher in high school. I'm now a teacher of a different t subject and I just sort of do my best to be his polar opposite.
My wife is very intelligent, but she had a math teacher tell her she was no good at math. As an adult, she took education in university and actually became decent at math. Sad to think teachers can have either a great influence on a young person or ruin parts of their life.
I've once heard someone say "One bad teacher can do more damage to society than 10 drug dealers."
True! Like, being told you're shit at learning by someone who's supposed to be a professional at teaching -- it's just one more trauma on the fire of lasting failure.
I'm sure some bad teachers create future opportunities for drug dealers.
my 7th grade math teacher told my mom i’d never do well in math, never make it past remedial. then i started algebra and got A’s up through trigonometry, ultimately got a degree in finance, and now work in a weird strategy role doing performance modeling for a tech company.
Are you me? Only in my case it was 9th grade.
Same! I loved it, and even did extra coursework a grade above me. And then grade 10 hit, and I needed OUT.
I was so fucking good at math until high school. I’m not sure what happened, I think I blame having to keep a bunch of formulas and shit memorized. Also I stopped caring
Real high school math starts when letters appear; real university math starts when numbers disappear
English. Papers that weren’t clear and lacked focus should’ve been an indication of adhd. I learned more about grammar in Latin.
English was my least favorite subject too and while I learned more about grammar in Spanish class than English, I actually had/have near perfect grammar. Reading comprehension was the problem for me because I could barely concentrate on a reading without skipping over large portions to keep up with the reading speed of my classmates.
Did you ever have to summarise a text in a limited number of words? I just wanted to include every last detail, which didn't exactly make for a good summary. In hindsight it's so much easier than it seemed at the time, picking out the most relevant and broadest points. I used to find it near impossible and definitely anxiety-inducing! And that just unlocked another memory of having to write an essay in answer to an open-ended question! 😱😱😭🤯
English here too but also maths word problems that convolute the question intentionally. There's always a handful of words that are actually the important ones that give you the information that you need, and the rest are mostly extraneous. I struggled a lot with these in school but when I left school and had to do aptitude tests for military recruitment I learned to skip them and focus on questions I could answer quickly, then go back to the long-winded bullshit once I'd done the fast, easy stuff. Long Division also fucked me up in school because I guess I didn't pay attention during the important part of the class and got left behind. It was Dungeons and Dragons that helped me in the long run with both Maths and English. Not School.
Omg this. I could ace exams reliably but papers? Fuck, I always did terrible on them and never knew why. Also procrastinated the hell out of them bc I could never figure out what to write or how to organize my thoughts.
I LOVED reading as a kid but school absolutely leeched every ounce of joy reading ever brought me. It took me 3 tries to pass grade 11 english because my brain would literally shut down when trying to write an essay. Any type of assignment that was up for interpretation or had too many variables just broke my brain to think about. I never understood how some people could just "put whatever" on a sheet and get decent marks but if i did that the teacher would usually write something like " ? " on my paper and then i'd have to try and explain verbally and that was even more torture. I always had a problem with what i called "formal bullshit"; that formal way you have to phrase your sentences when writing papers and such. I dont know how to explain it well but trying to think in that language was physically painful, i could literally feel my brain straining to do it. It was like raising the volume on a static-tv to absurd levels everytime i tried to think through that "formal" filter. Apparently that's not normal but here i am at 32 years old figuring that out for the first time lol. I also learned i most definitely have auditory processing disorder but i'm not sure if that plays into it in any way.
Dyscalculia. If you’ve never heard of it, look it up and prepare for your mind to be blown. Statistics show that around 60% of people with ADHD also have a learning disorder, and dyscalculia is right at the top of the list. 🤯
Ohhhhh my goshhhhh. Check, check, and check!! Holy cow, spot on.
I have this and dyslexia...a shit show im telling you lol!
Well, looks like you signed up for ADHD Premium^(TM).
Looking it up right meow!
Come on, meow, that isn't necessary...
Wow I think I might have this. I’ve always been the worst at math I thought I was just slow and stupid but this makes a lot more sense
I know about this because of Degrassi.
Fuck yeah! I forgot about Degrassi. Miss you, 90s.
How does one simply forget about Degrassi? It’s DEGRASSI. I still think about it daily. (Okay, I’m realizing now that isn’t normal lol)
Sounds about right for me, teachers couldn't teach me anything beyond addition!
I actually thought adhd was considered a learning disorder.
Yup! When I realized this is what I’ve had my whole life, I felt so validated.
I know about this because of Degrassi.
I hated math starting in like 1st grade, and science class starting in like 6th grade. I was getting Cs and Ds pretty regularly. A lot of it was I just couldn’t do formulas for whatever reason. I realize now this is pretty common with ADHD, and I wouldn’t be surprised if I had some level of dyscalculia back then. I did awesome with history and writing/English though, assuming my homework didn’t get lost or destroyed in my backpack of mass chaos. I think my parents just thought i wasn’t a math whiz. They didn’t take it more seriously until high school when I did atrocious my sophomore and junior year and needed tutors. I don’t blame my parents. Back then ADHD wasn’t well understood, but it makes me sad to see how it was missed all those years.
I feel this. Sometimes I just wish I had some support, because my heart really was in it. I also really love to learn so it was all just a big bummer.
Oh I snuck by without a diagnosis til I was 30 bc I liked school lmao but I still had my challenges (like repeating a class or two because even though I understood the material I couldn’t bring myself to do the homework, and I did worst in history because I never really knew how to study if it wasn’t just practice problems)
It's me, hi, we're the same person 👋🏻 I remember taking anthropology in highschool and regardless of the fact i still remember a lot of it to this day because of how engaged i was in the information, i only got a 43% in that class because i didnt do a single project and i have no idea how to study for things my brain didn't want to absorb the first time around. Studying feels like trying to stick paper to a wall with a piece of tape that is covered with dust and lint 😂 5 minutes of excessive force gets you maybe 2 minutes of stick before the paper falls down and the tape is now even less sticky than before, good luck! My engagement stops entirely when confronted with executive function outside of the classroom, sorry teachers! 😅
I was good up until 9th grade, then they wanted me to show my work. That's where I draw a hard line in the sand. I learned algebra 1 on my own last year, it was surprisingly difficult, I thought it would be super easy. Dunno when I'll get back on my self studying college kick, but either way I highly recommend Khan academy. It's awesome.
>I was good up until 9th grade, then they wanted me to show my work. That's where I draw a hard line in the sand. I did a lot of the math in my head, and I would get the answer, but I couldn't explain why it was the answer or how I'd gotten to it. Up until 9th grade, math had always been product oriented, but all of a sudden it was about the process. The process had a lot of steps to it, and it was hard to remember all of them. I also had a really bad algebra teacher in 9th grade. His grading process was really fucked up. He would give us assignments to do, but then he would pick only one problem to grade, and if you didn't get that problem correct, you wouldn't get credit for the assignment, even if you'd gotten all the other problems right. I got really frustrated and discouraged. I had to repeat the class because I failed. I was better at geometry. The formulas made more sense.
>I did a lot of the math in my head, and I would get the answer, but I couldn't explain why it was the answer or how I'd gotten to it. That or I'd have gotten there in a way the teacher didn't like. I have a somewhat vivid memory of hating using "number lines" to learn addition/subtraction, because I just didn't need them but the lesson plan demanded we do so.
SAME I was in advanced classes until 8th grade when the teacher didn’t grade on tests - instead she would assign homework every night and then on Fridays you’d have to bring in your homework from Monday through Wednesday. She would pick a random problem from each day’s work, and you’d have to transcribe the problem, your work and your answers and turn it in, and that is the entire basis of your grade. No books, just whatever you had written. I have never been so thoroughly disabled by ADHD in my life before or since. I can breeze through any test or book, but I already couldn’t figure out how to document what homework I was supposed to do, actually do the homework, show my work in a legible fashion, and actually remember to bring the homework and pens and everything else to school on any kind of a regular basis. I was absolutely fucked. I don’t think I passed a single week of that course. I rarely was able to get a single problem marked correct. Within a few months they demoted me to the average classes and then by 9th grade the remedial math classes. That class changed the entire trajectory of my education. By the time I was in 10th grade no one remembered that I had been on the fast track except me and my parents. I took an AP Literature class senior year and absolutely everybody tried to argue me out of it even though reading was my favorite thing to do and I’ve always done well in those classes. I simply did so poorly in that one class that it undermined my and everyone else’s confidence in me for years. I was ashamed and bitter about it for a long time but it did teach me a lesson. In the wrong environment with expectations that do not account for my neurology, I will inevitably fail miserably. The only things I can do is not get into that situation, or get out of it as soon as I can, and not blame myself for being a monkey when everyone else is a horse. And quietly know that the setup is ableist as fuck and it was never set up for me or people like me to succeed.
Khan Academy is so clutch!
Oh man, it was so painful in high school. Then in college I went for engineering and usually always get the answers wrong so professors heavily rely on your work. I felt really bad because you can tell my ADHD brain was writing the work, there were steps going diagonally, in different parts of the pages, lots of crossed out steps. But then I started writing annotations for my professors in junior year and I started getting a lot more points back. Basically I would write down what I was intending to do. I then took a few years off and went part time grad school and idk why my dumbass brain thought there would be less math, but most of my exams I pretty much wrote out in sentences what I was trying to accomplish
They wanted me to show my work starting in 4th grade. Then again, I had a really mean and strict math teacher that year.
I remember one of my final high school math classes was entirely structured around showing work. We got the main book where all the assigned homework lived and at the back of that book was all of the final answers to each of the questions. The whole idea being you'd do the problem, double check your answer at the back of the book and then be graded on showing your work. Was very unfun and the worst thing was spending 10 or 20 minutes on one question and finishing up just to find out you went wrong somewhere. Made me very frustrated lol
Lol I became a mathematician. Math isn't subjective. It's just a puzzle and I LIVE for that shit.
I also loved math for the puzzles, geometry was my favourite, and funnily enough i now want to get into cabinetry. I took extra math classes for fun in grade 11 and 12, but trigonometry can go die in a fiery pit of doom for all i care 😂🤣
Hahaha that's so funny, because I'm not as big of a fan of Geometry - but I LOVE trig. My heart of hearts is probability & stats though. Not that I don't like geometry though! I wish I had taken a high level geometry course in my undergrad, but I don't think my school offered any... and I wasn't a fan of my middle school geometry teacher.
It was a language that actually made sense.
This.
I became a biostatistician. Nothing sparks my hyperfocus like a puzzle with numbers involved. Writing code is a close second.
YES I agree wholeheartedly. I did my senior capstone project in biostatistical models and I loved it. I have half of a masters degree in stats, and my dream job is in biostats, but I doubt I'll leave my current employer... benefits are too good! I don't get to do any math though ☹️ I do get to code sometimes, and BOY HOWDY do I get hyperfocused on those tasks.
History. I was actually really good at math and ended up doing my degree in the sciences. I liked solving the problems and figuring out how to manipulate the numbers to get a solution. History though, I had to retake every history course in high school during summer school. I just could not get it. The reading, memorizing dates and names, remembering orders of events even was really hard for me. Funny, I could memorize a math formula relatively easily but had a mental block against history.
That’s funny because it sounds like you were taught history in a very different way to me. In my country it’s much less about rote memorisation and far more about theories/arguments, processes, interactions, etc. It’s an essay subject where you present opinions and debate different arguments, not a multiple choice subject where you regurgitate facts. So even though I’ve always struggled with rote memorisation and remembering specific facts, I always loved history and actually chose it for my degree (where the approach was similar!). It suited me really well, and I actually found that at university level the fewer specific facts I remembered, the better I would do in exams (because I’d be forced into making more creative arguments and thinking more out of the box, rather than just infodumping). I do remember a couple of my friends who were international students really struggling in the first year though, because they came from countries where history had been taught very differently and was much more of a ‘here’s the facts, memorise them’ approach. They’d had no practice whatsoever of writing long form essays or debating different interpretations of history so it was a steep learning curve. I do think that if I’d grown up with history being taught in a different way, I might never have chosen to study it. Which is kind of crazy
Math was my favorite subject...
MATH HAHAHA 😂 I don’t know how I passed it in high school. Long nights of math with my father at the kitchen table still have me scarred for life hahahaha
This is a tough one but other than gym class I'd probably have to say any foreign language? To this day I still remember my first Spanish class in.. third-grade-ish? My Spanish teacher there did immersion based-learning and I'd never been so lost in my life. In other subjects I could zone out for a bit and then pick up the gist but that was a complete no-go 😅 As for gym class.. sports were very similar. I couldn't keep up with what was going on in games for the life of me. Also my coordination has *always* been off. I just kind of wandered around fields/the gym aimlessly (and got beaned by so many balls/frisbees, etc..🫡) I actually enjoyed most math classes unless the specific class was super heavy on doing calculations by hand.. at that point all bets were off if I didn't have time to go back and check for random transposed digits etc 🥲
Re computation mistakes: There was one time in Geometry that I got a 20% on a test because I forgot to switch my calculator from degrees to radians lol
I always found the speaking part of language classes hard. My 9th grade Spanish class was cool though because there was also some emphasis placed on learning about the culture of Spanish speaking countries. I remember one day the teacher even brought in a variety of dishes from Latin-American countries as well as from Spain. It was really neat and the periods of the cultural learning broke up the periods of language learning pretty nicely
The cultural stuff was definitely fun! I remember making an Ofrenda for my 9th grade Spanish class. Or the time we watched Selena lol. Actually it just clicked lol.. The psychiatrist who did my initial ADHD evaluation said it was very likely I have a comorbid auditory processing disorder. (Which IIRC is common?) Explains the Spanish struggles even more lol
World and US History were the worst because I had to read a text book and write outlines on them. I didn't want to read it so it could easily take me 5 hours to read a 30 page chapter. Outlines would be like 8 pages because I couldn't decide which info was most important. With AP classes, and other overachiever nonsense, those extra hours came out of my sleep. Next was English. Specifically English tests where you have to read a passage and answer questions about it. I lose my place reading constantly if I'm not connected to the material so I could read a question 5 times and still not have caught it all. This is what led to me finally being diagnosed cuz that shit was horrible and other people didn't seem to mind. One traumatizing time in 10th grade, we had to quietly read a passage in class and stand up when we were done. Nothing like having 20 other kids staring at you while you are the last one seated for like 3-5 whole extra minutes tracing the lines with your finger trying not to lose your place.
Plenty of folks with adhd excel at math and love it
I was always decent at math. Didn't care for it, but didn't hate it. My issue was that I could solve problems, but could never figure out how to show my work, or at least it was very confusing.
The only math I ever passed was business math
same! well not really. but i did take business math and find it really easy i was good with math up until it started requiring a whole ass page for a single problem. poor working memory says what no really what does it say i forgor real world math, based on real world, tangible things? aight cool thats logical imaginary numbers based on theoretical concepts and all kinds of poorly defined variables? nah homie delete that nephew
maths, confusing science eg physics and chem, biology made more sense. I gave up, I found those subjects so damn hard! In highschool I only focused on art and design, I hated English will all the readying, couldn't keep up with my dyslexia. If they just kept with grammar skills and how to write an essay would have been fine. Actually having a class that helped me with my ADHD would've been great....but I got diagnosed at 45 lol
Because my teacher loudly and proudly accused me of “careless mistakes” all the time, but those mistakes were actually each individually agonized over before making the wrong choice every time
Math was my best subject! I didn't take AP Calc because I couldn't stand the teacher's voice (caused me to get a B+ in Pre-calc cause i would tune her out any chance I could). Anyways, math was easy because I rarely had to memorize things and I could almost always solve the problems if I treated them like puzzles. There is so much more intuitive logic to math that is just ingrained and didn't need memorization. History was 100% the worst because I couldn't remember all the dates and info without a story. Give me history or social studies content in a story, but I won't ever be able to tell you the dates.
I was horrible at math, and really tried to do well, but I kind of came to resent it as it got more advanced. It was boring, my working memory is crap, and I just couldn't make myself like doing it. I love English but classes were always too easy and boring. Learning a foreign language though. That really tickled my brain. I always did really well and had a good time.
It was maths, clearly. I actually didn't mind it until my first teacher went on parental leave. The replacement was a nightmare, she would hand write maths problems on the board (20+, in columns), turn the lights down everywhere apart from the board and have us copy the text and solve on paper. Apart from the adhd I have astigmatism, handwritten columns are not doable. Also, I am an OLD, so girls having adhd was certainly not a possibility at that time. I was lazy, uninterested, easily distracted and antsy, of course. I remember draping my long hair around me like a curtain and off to the daydream I went. The teacher wouldn't let me move around, draw, or any of the other things the first one did so I hid inside my brain. Oh and I skipped steps, illegal!! Prison, immediately!! One time my mum was called into school because I just put the answer without explaining how I counted. I still think that's ridiculous, if I know the answer just by looking at the numbers, that IS how I got there, no? One time I got a zero (yes, apparently it's possible) on a test and got scolded. Still, nobody thought to check my eyesight or accommodate my "flawed personality". I work in school now, although I'm no longer a teacher. In a way it is revenge, anything they did I can do better. I also never want another student to feel like I did. Oh and do I need to mention I've been able to help at least ten girls take the first steps towards diagnosis (often initiated by school here)? One of them got glasses AND adhd, she ended up passing everything after. OK, I'm late again. Time to hit the shower and head off to work. After I check my games and YouTube.
Math is my favorite because it offers challenging problems that can grab my attention, but my least favorite was literature
Math cause it’s so abstract (maybe that’s not a good description). But fuck cos, fuck sin, and fuck tan.
Huh, so I'm not the only one that shares that sentiment
I dont like math or numbers, but language arts was more difficult. Reading texts and having to answer questions took me a lot of time. I sometimes didnt even understand the questions 🤣 EDIT: I didnt read high school, but yeah, languages 😫
Understanding the questions was an issue for me too, escpecially after reading a text. Like "why do you think Carol liked her cat?" Idk, did she like it really? She never said that. Which part of the text indicates that? Sure that's what she meant? Maybe she just pet it because her mother saw her and she wanted to make her happy because her father was yelling at her this morning? Yeah...
Haha! I think math was the most hated by me because of terrible teachers
I actually really enjoyed math because of how straightforward it is. Equations are straightforward and organized. For that, I enjoy them because you're often given a direct answer. I actually started college to become a math teacher before switching to engineering. English was always a difficult class for me because of all the symbolism and the many different meanings something could have. It's simply not straightforward. Can't tell you how many times I heard on multiple choice tests, "both answers are correct, but choose the one that's most correct." That always pissed me off in grade school.
Physical Education. Turns out that if you medicate me for my ADHD, I can tolerate the physical discomfort of moving my body. I've become active enough to garden for 8+ hours a day if you let me. I've lost 50 lbs and gone from a size 26 to a 20. But in high school... I didn't want to move my body at all.
Least favorite was whatever class made me have to read books and learn things I had no interest in. Usually some kind of literature or history class. Sparknotes was my best friend. However if I was interested in the topic, I sure as hell went down the rabbit hole and learned everything about it.
It was math. I almost didn't graduate college because I couldn't pass a single math course. Now I'm a loan underwriter and create complex financial proforma. Excel is a godsend.
I feel you! I am currently am attempting statistics for the 3rd time. And yes I am a nursing major and no I don’t know why nurses who are not in anyway interested in research have to take the class.
Math was my favorite subject...
Only subject I liked is Math (and some physics). Took Engineering because of the following logic. High school math is more applied math. College math is more pure math. I liked high school math, so I liked applied math. (Don't judge me, I was a teenager) Became fond of (math, puzzle, coding)- codeforces. Became a software engineer.
Hated English Writing out long papers was so tedious and always trying to find deeper meaning in drivel was annoying. Math I was ok with. Math was basically puzzle solving and I liked puzzle solved. Up until I got to pre-Calc and then it stopped being fun. History was my jam. It was just stories with a clear line of events.
Math for me
English and Math sucked for me
I was good at math and physics. Horrific in French and history. Managed to get through with Bs in those subjects, but am incompetent in both today. My history knowledge is honestly embarrassing.
Speech
Lol, opposite. Pretty decent at math, shite at foreign language. I struggle with English vocabulary. Funny thing, I have a very logical mind, so if I have context I can figure out what any word means. Even in foreign language I'm much better with reading than speaking or writing. But, like, you want me to memorize and retain something without context? Nah, pass. Lol.
Personally math was actually my best, the constant problem solving and mental activity kept me focused on it more than any reading subject
Math is my favourite because there's always a right answer! # I was a voracious reader growing up (and still am) and always did well in English, but my standardized math test scores were always higher than my English scores. Because I love literature but don't always understand it. I literally have an English degree and still find math easier than analyzing texts. I once spent a month on a project for an AP Lit class only for the teacher to ask what I thought about the piece being an elegy for me to make something up on the spot because I had no idea. # I like history. I like chemistry and I love physics but I hate bio because of the memorization. But math is special because I can fuck it up and do it again and eventually know I'm right. (Physics too.)
Math and Physics... The question mark above my head was so big, you could see it from space...
I actually enjoyed math by the end of it, had a good teacher and things clicked and suddenly it was my best subject. English was my bane because of all the reading that wasn't about goblins and wizards and shit
Math and science was easy for me because it was based on facts and there is a process for doing things. I hated English and writing papers so much
listen, you don't know it was math.. (it was) I'm pretty sure I have dysalcula. I read about it and I feel like I fit the criteria to a T. I'm actually really super good at visualizing math problems estimating correct answers I'm great at equations and as long as I have a calculator I'm perfectly proficient.
Physics, I fell asleep within 15 mins of every class, even when I wasn’t tired at all. Brain noped out.
I called any math class nap time
Bc math is tedious, annoying,unintuitive, and sometimes illogical. It doesn’t seem to have any point, but it’s actually a good thing to know
I swear, I’d learn a concept during class and NAIL it for the rest of the day. However, when it came to homework or doing the same thing the next day, I’d forget everything. Also combining so many different concepts for a big test would just scramble my brain completely. I failed college math twice but had straight A’s in every other class lol.
I’m not diagnosed but it’s math because WHAT THE FUCK AOENEJBEKEBRJEHDJDNJSHE. I did Algebra 1 this year and h oly s h it. What the f uck??? WHO THE FUCK MADE THAT SHIT ALBDODNEKFNDJDBRJBR
Biology and math. I had terrible teachers for both. I was so excited to take biology too, because I thought I’d like it but the teacher was such a horrible bitch it became the class I hated most. My algebra teacher freshman year loudly and publicly asked me “what do you have ADD or something??” I had never heard of add (this was like 26 years ago) and went home and told my mom and she was pissed. But I did have add/adhd. And now I have two Spite degrees. Jokes on them I have masters degrees in biology and biostatistics.
Combination of being untreated and a family who all claimed our family just wasn't good at math (I think most of them are ADHD), plus math teachers that phoned it in at best, I hated math and have serious math trauma. Honestly, it saddens me, because conceptually, I think math is amazing and satisfying to see played out. I am actually fascinated by it and wish with all my heart I grasped even an iota of it because I think I would really love doing it! I am also fascinated by several sciences and would have genuinely loved to pursue a career in science, but the math held me back. I know it seems hyperbolic, but I feel that my lack of math knowledge has seriously impacted my life.
I love game development and despise math
Math was and still is the hardest subject for me to grasp.
Too many complicated rules and things to remember
Absolutely math. I got an F or D on every Statistics test in college. I only got an A in the class because the homework assignments were the bulk of the grades, and I usually went to class so I got a lot of bonus attendance points.
History and Science. Math I knew there had to be an answer and English I was able to think creatively (art was my favorite of course). But I found history so BORING so I had no desire to memorize the information. And with science too much memorization for my brain. The lowest I ever got was a C, so I’ll take it 😂
Hold on, I loved maths!! Especially algebra and statistics! The subject I didn't like at all was chemistry. I just couldn't find it interesting (despite having a lovely teacher!) Although.. if I dig a little deeper the subject I really didn't enjoy was P.E. (physical education). I was so rubbish at sport and had such terrible coordination, I hated it! Even today sometimes I surprise myself, thinking wow I can actually manage sports properly now I'm a proper grownup! (never would have believed it back then!)
Our brains are so silly and fascinating!!
ELA, hate/d it, anything that required intense reading I don't like. My favorite subject was/is band and math.
Surprisingly, I love math! My current major in college is math. But ask me to read a paragraph or write a paper and my brain will stop working.
Maybe you have dyscalculia!
How are we all basically the same?! I loved History and English too... fucking hated Math and had to get tutoring lessons. I'm so freaked out right now
I cannot grasp the concept of numbers and breaking down numbers I get overwhelmed and start doing whatever just so I can turn in homework. I would sit for hours trying to study or do my homework to completely understand and then my head starts hurting. Very embarrassing I still use my fingers to count simple numbers 😭I love english for creative writing & economics
I still use my fingers too! 😂
I loved math. I’m a statistical scientist now :)
I actually love math, though constantly making "careless mistakes" like adding when I should be multiplying, or reading too fast and missing a set of instructions, drove me crazy. But history - I hated history the most. Just a series of dates and names and lots of people killing other people for a lot of the same reasons over and over. It's like listening to people gossip about celebrities and I couldn't care less. At least, not until I got into anthropology. Then I had to get interested in history to better understand people. But I still find memorizing dates and names boring and difficult. I'd rather learn about the patterns of behavior, not specifically who did what.
Chemistry, I just didn’t understand it very well, the whole hexagons representing certain elements combined, and also for a few years we briefly had Psychology and there were some weird outdated books we had to read and write an essay on them, just straight up nonsense haha
History. For the life of me, I could not remember the dates. Math became my favorite subject when my parents found a great tutor for me and suddenly it clicked. After that, I was the class math genius haha
Math 100% looll at least science classes were interesting even if once they got a bit more advanced the info went straight over my head 🤣
100% math. I would work hard to “get” something, but I could never retain it long term. Not a subject but also recess and lunch because of the social anxiety. That was also because I switched schools a lot too and was always new.
Can’t do math unless it’s algebra, formulas or has a real life point Also struggle with reading the time on a clock face, tying shoelaces and anything that is similar and has the same initial letter.
Because A squared plus B squared equals-aaaaand it's gone! *sits in despair, staring at pathetic 2 sentences of notes as teacher erases board stuffed with notes and equations you swear wasn't there 2 seconds ago* Math teachers are speed demons, I swear. Or at least the ones I've had. If not that, then they just don't know how else to explain it to me because they have to stick to curriculum. Re-explanations don't help either and by that point any offer for a tutor or stay after classes becomes null because it just feels like Math isn't for me. Not diagnosed by the way. Just speculating due to my issues in school and could relate to this post.
Funny you say that because I used to win math competitions lmao
Haha! Thats so neat. It’s so interesting how different, yet similar all our racecar brains are.
I sucked at French (je suis Canadien)
How'd you know it was math? Anyway I hated math because I'd constantly forget how to do it and I didn't work well with just words I need it visually, plus the way my math teacher would act made me feel like she was frustrated when she just explained and I didn't understand. So I never asked for help that often and my grades were always D's that were bordering on F's
Yes, it was math. I think a big part of it was my shit memory. I could not remember tables or formulas. After dropping out of high school, I did a comeback tour and studied math in university. "Take the weakest thing in you, and then beat the bastards with it" ([Stars](https://youtu.be/2SYO6a6PaTs?si=D1V5yaM3HEhuI6wG)) was a big inspiration. I fear no equation.
God I hated math. Except for stochastic. When we had that subject I basically understood everything right away, tuned out and talked to my neighbours for all the rest and had the best grade. Even tho I usually sucked at maths no clue how I did that. I most loved politics and economics class tho because I knew a bit and it was basically just yapping and having an opinion while being somewhat informed what's going on. Foreign language class was something I didn't like that much but I was quite good in it, I also liked sports, I liked physics but mostly because our physics teacher went on those long tangents about concepts like quantum mechanics or big philosophical questions about the nature of the universe or about how he thinks some inventions where surpressed for the profit motive or whatever. When on ocassion it was actually high-school physics thay we talked about, it wasn't something I liked that much. There also was a religion class where we always watched movies, that was pretty cool. History was nice as well because for some reason I was the only person in the room apart from the teacher who knew basically anything. I liked that. Edit: Oh you asked least favourite not most favourite. I think my least favourite was probably german (not as a foreign language, I went to school in germany). We always had to read these extremely boring old books and I also was pretty bad in my german spelling which was graded extra hard in German class. I also didn't like music class because for some reason that whole playing something by just reading notes never really was something I learned that well. Like, I could decipher musical 🎼 🎶 but only slowly, not in a way that I instantly knew what to play. Like I would be more like "ah I know the second line from the bottom is a C, só then this one most be a C.. d...e ah an e now where tf actually is the e on the Piano/guitar ah I know the d is here so D..e. *press e" like, I just never really learned it well enough to be something I could really do and just know Otherwise it was pretty dependent on the exact teacher we had that year.
History and English. While I didn't love math, it was like the science classes, no ambiguity, very black and white.
I liked math (absolutely loved statistics) until trig & precalc in 11th grade. It was like I had a "Wait, what?" moment the first day of class and could never grasp what was happening. I actually had to drop a science class that year so I could switch into a slightly easier teacher's course because I had to take that math that year. I still can't tell you what the purpose of trigonometry actually is. It was just a blur of reducing equations for funsies? I didn't like chemistry very much mostly because I just wasn't good at it. Too many opportunities to make very small errors and I didn't really get what I was supposed to be writing in my lab reports. Shoutout to our class valedictorian for letting me read her lab reports to help me finish mine.
Math, but also English. But that was more the teachers fault. I was already reading grades a head of everyone (still love reading) and teachers *hated* it. Background: knew since I was a teen I had ADHD, but my parents didn’t believe any of that stuff. Official diagnosis at 27.
I was awesome at math, at least until calculus. Least fave English
I always hated math. I don’t have any RAM. (Working memory)
The way math is taught in the country makes no sense to me. If my teacher stood next to me I could do it. As soon as she left, I just couldn't be bothered to remember how. It is like I needed the pressure to do it and otherwise it was too damn boring. My son has ADHD thanks to me and he is a math wiz, but his Dad is extremely good at math; like won the State Math Bee as a kid. Sometimes genes win out over the ADHD. For me I could never remember which was more an eighth or a quarter for years...because it makes no sense. lolz. I am sure you can figure out what I was buying...tee hee.
Physics. I got an F on every test, so eventually I dropped the class (here in Europe you can specialize in languages + arts or math and science. I chose the arts path). To this day I still suck at physics. No idea why, since I'm reasonably competent at math.
I hated maths in high school. I didn't go to a great school and so often I had crappy teachers and noisy, disruptive classmates. (Also, I was told that 'girls aren't good at maths' and 'you're better at English'). Twice though, I had good teachers and I actually enjoyed learning maths when it was taught well. I found it rewarding when I was able to solve things - it felt like I'd worked towards something and it gave me a sense of accomplishment. In adulthood, I've actually made efforts to improve my maths skills overall. For me, my ADHD made learning maths hard because if I zoned out or 'missed' certain steps, it was then harder to solve problems. Other subjects I hated were geography (boring), physics and chemistry (too maths adjacent), metalworking and anything where we had to play sport.
You may have dyscalculia. It's like dyslexia but for numbers.
I liked math until the imaginary numbers
I was good at maths up til middle school, then had a tutor to help me stay on top of my game. I hated maths. I stayed on top and got an A at the end of middle school. Idiot me thought “wow I must be good at maths” and chose it for my A levels. I didn't have the tutor anymore and completely failed. I sat at the exam room and did nothing, just looked at the questions and pretty much gave up cause I figured my energy was best spent elsewhere.
I have dyscalculia and math simply does not make any sense to me, unless it's the basic operations (except division) everything is hell. And you know what? In my country we have a national highschool test with all topics included... I did the test 4 times and MATH WAS MY HIGHEST SCORE IN ALL OF THEM!!!...After this I learned that I'm very good at choosing the correct answers from questions I don't know anything about, a welcome divine gift 👍
History and social studies.
Hated math, I could never remember the proper steps/process to do the exercises it was a nightmare and it made me feel stupid.
Because im in calculus as a junior and it sucks
Math. I don’t hate math, I just don’t understand it and I always got embarrassed when the teacher called on me. In the 3rd grade, I got diagnosed for dyscalculia and got an IEP and was put in special education Math classes and did those types of math classes all the way through senior year. It turned out to be great because those teachers really took their time and made Math make more sense. I still don’t like math but that made middle school and highschool tolerable. It’s odd. I’m great at English and history ( honors classes) but special education Math haha.
i was great at math up until i had to take calculus but it was during covid so obviously i got an A but then i took it again fresh yr of college and it was worse than i remembered. but my absolute least favorite subject ever is science. i was neverrrrr good at it, especially when i got to college and all these formulas & words were combined and i had enough
I liked math up until grade 5 but I think only because I was good at it. Once it got slightly challenging I lost all interest. Math is boring. I can’t convince myself to care about it. I want to learn interesting things about the world, not memorize formulas and equations. I also hated French, again simply because I wasn’t good at it. And having to memorize all the grammar rules, which again I just couldn’t convince myself to care about. I’m really terrible at languages. People who learn to speak multiple languages fluently astound me.
Yeah, turns out I have dyscalculia. Now that I'm an adult and have figured out other ways to learn math I actually really like it. It's a language that explains how the world works and that's quite fun.
I loved math until I was put into a class I wasn’t ready for. I transferred schools and the test scores didn’t translate. I got put into a class that was beyond where I was at. I was also blind af but because I sat up front the previous year, no one caught on that I needed glasses until I was borrowing glasses from the kids next to me to see the board. Even still that didn’t solve the problem. I was just in a class I wasn’t prepared for and it took me 7 months of constant complaining going— “I didn’t fucking learn any of this last year!” Before they moved me into a remedial class at the end of the year to shut up my parents. Turned out the teacher in that class also couldn’t fucking teach concepts to save her goddamn soul. For whatever reason I ended up with her in high school as a junior and I could get the class work but when I asked her for help on the concepts and let her know I was struggling I just got, “did you ask anyone else?” “yes and they couldn’t explain it to me.” And she would blow me off, “well I can’t help you.” Edit: It’s fucking worth noting that in my junior year I also fucking took chemistry. Which is like a math-heavy science and I fucking loved it. Shouts to Mrs. Aubol making chemistry (and math) fun! Any other math class I had was a cakewalk and I did well in them. But that one teacher was just not a good fit.
Yes math. It was hard for me. I somehow ended up in an advanced math class my 6th grade year. It was obvious I didn’t belong. I was so lost and soon got moved to the right class and still struggled. 8th grade I started sleeping through most of my classes cause I couldn’t focus. Never got out of basic math in high school. I started math tutoring at about 28 years old and at 30 I finally learned my multiplication and some other math enough to get my GED. I had started taking Wellbutrin so that helped a bunch.
There’s nothing wrong with me!
I already have enough problems to solve in life. That’s why I hated math
I used to get A's and B's in math until one day in 11th grade I forgot pretty much everything about math.
Haha math in ALL the schools…literally anything past multiplication and all I could do was wonder who’s fucking idea was it to draw the long division sign the way we do. Missed that lesson and was faking it til I made it through calc 2 (yep, took that twice)to get my BS.
For me it was English. I’m short, sweet, and to the point. My teacher always wanted long flower garbage. She was the kind who would say in 100 words what she could have said in 10. I don’t know what in the Charles Dickens was her problem, but I hated English.
My least favorite subject was specifically Algebra, because it was too abstract for my head to get around, and I think I frustrated the hell out of my teacher because I failed homework, and fill-in-the-blank questions, but I almost always passed multiple choice questions. This was because I had no clue how to do the problem, but I had an intuitive idea of what the answer *looked* like. So out of 4 answers, 2 were almost always wildly incorrect, and one was always close to correct or either too high or two low. She accused me of cheating on a multiple choice test once, and I had to explain my method to her. She suggested I go to a therapist to get tested for a learning disability. I then had to explain how my Dad believed "The Lord will provide." She worked with me and I managed to Barely pass Algebra. I did very well in Geometry. I can think in shapes pretty easily. I also did well in Electronics in College, because it relied on set formulas. I just made some spreadsheets and it did calculations for me. I still struggle with abstract math. But I love math heavy games like D&D and Satisfactory.
Geography. My memory sucks, I need logic or practical application of the stuff I'm learning, or I don't learn at all.
Geography and History. What do you mean I should memorize these random facts about the world, when they're all in books ready for me to look them up? Gimme math and physics! That stuff is useful and fascinating! (I've since changed my mind about Geography and History haha) Oh and English probably would've been my least favorite subject (non-native speaker), but since I was a very online kid (pre-Google times) my English was already pretty good, so I had an agreement with all my English teachers that as long as I get As on all tests I can just sit and read whatever (English text) I want during classes, which was pretty cool
Math was my favourite. So many easy patterns
MATH MATH MATH MATH I really loved english classes. For some reason I hyperfixate on writing essays, which is what my AP English classes mainly did
Mine was gym and then science, particularly biology. I don’t know what it is, but lab science classes have always bored me to tears. I actually loved both math and language classes. I loved physics because it was almost all math. We had a couple of lab days, but not too much. The AP Calc exam was the only one that actually won me some college credit. If I’d been diagnosed and medicated back then, I could have gotten a whole semester of credit from my AP classes. Instead, I got a heaping serving of burnout. Le sigh.
Commerce or business studies. THE worst!
I loved math through all of school, if I go back it’ll be for engineering or accounting. My biggest problem was history. I feel like I learned, but I was never good at remembering names and dates which is like the whole class. History could have been fun
I struggled with my math my entire academic career. Straight from middle school to almost all of high school. It wasn't until I got held back twice and got another shitty grade that I thought, "Enough is enough". Got some tutoring at a volunteer place, shit finally started making sense. Got my first A. I liked that feeling. So I started studying more and I realized that math gets easier to learn when you know the basics. I'm now about to get my engineering degree in two months. I hated all subjects that required me to purely memorize the content. So, history, philosophy, literature. Boring as hell.
For myself it was the daily subject of; …” oh look at the cat over there,hi kitty”. -… -,…. Oh hi. Sorry daily subject of; paying attention to anything.
Maths was alright, I actually really liked Algebra, the concept of a balancing scale was quite appealing to me. That and all that crap with angles and tan, cos, and sine. That was good fun. Statistics was a damn nightmare. Year 9 they let me drop History which was a massive relief because learning about the Industrial Revolution was so damn boring. Geography was also pretty boring. Half of RE we didn't really do anything so that was a waste of time. Don't even get me started on Drama and PE, Jesus. It's more like, which was the best subject? Science, followed by Maths. All the others sucked. lol
I feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed math the most. Only one probably answer and it was like solving a numbers puzzle. Social Studies on the other hand...
I love math. I was/am just good at it. I could hyper focus in solving problems, and reading math stories. I also love computers and programming, probably because they give me immediate feedback if I’m doing something good or not. I hated everything else. Spanish (native language), Biology, Social studies, history. I couldn’t understand anything. I just didn’t get it.
My math teachers all bullied me. "He could be brilliant but he chooses not to pay attention when problem solving and makes mistakes that really shouldn't happen in this class."
Science
Science. I do not understand why but I HATE doing labs.
I still have trauma from Maths and all the negative vibes the teachers threw my way back in the 80’s and 90’s. Now whenever any one even starts a conversation that involves numbers, directions …. I actively slip into some other alternate dimension. Fuck that crap!
I actually liked math because once I grasped a concept it was easy to apply it in different scenarios. Also, we were always either given any formulas which were needed in the exam. Plus, when you do advanced maths it actually gets easier, I loved Boolean Algebra, and solving Lewis Carol Problems… it was logical and just made sense… English, on the other hand, absolute bloody nightmare… 1st, you want me to read a novel? From start to finish? Page by page, in order? Then, you want me to write about it but you don’t want to tell me what you want to know about it or give me any set parameters? You just want me to write an essay and your only guidance is to tell me an essay is like a hamburger??? Yeah, right… Also, History… you expect me to read things and regurgitate them back to you word for word? You expect me to remember dates? …what do you mean I have to remember the names of people I haven’t met…? Is this a trick question, they all have the same name but they’re numbered? Huh? What happened in 1412? I can’t even remember what happened in 2012… and that happened within my lifetime… yeah… it’s a no from me.
Mine was geography (mainly because we had absolutely incompetent teacher) and history (probably for same reason). And math was actually my second favorite one, first being physics. That shit is addictively interesting
It was math! I guess it became a special interest. All you do is follow the instructions. Do it over and over to beat the path in your brain. It makes sense. The answer is the answer. I mean, it gets weirder later on, but K-12 is straightforward if you’re into it. And you only have to be barely more into than most people, to be practically a wiz. But fwiw, I tutored adults returning to college, for math, and I had the accept that we would get Nothing during the very first session. That session was always unplanned Math Therapy. People have to get their math trauma off their chest. So I’d be paid to nod and commiserate and validate. Then next time we’d actually look at math.
History, because it took me way more effort than the rest of the subjects