I think I am. Of course I’ve had my confidence broken. I see a lot of creative and talented people here in art. But who likes mathematical proofs? Anyone like proving things for fun? The meds interfere sometimes but whatever. I plan on teaching myself real analysis some day. I would like to relearn linear algebra and abstract algebra. Number theory is cool. I would like to teach myself topology some day. Currently, I’m focusing on programming. I want to teach myself physics too because I feel stupid when it comes to physics. I failed physics in high school and I stopped it after that because a B.A in math doesn’t require physics where I went. I took a course in stat mechanics and algorithms in coursera (didn’t finish) but people were telling me how good I was, which made me feel good because I never took physics and had literally no programming experience. Quantum mechanics sounds interesting too. I need to get better medication (iti-007?). I got years to self-study so I can wait I guess.
It is difficult to know how talented I am.
Schizophrenia affected me probably since early childhood.
My parents are both good at mathematics, and especially my dad.
I used to be talented in mathematics. I was doing very well in my degree courses until the mental health stuff got too much and I dropped out. I seem to have lost most if not all of that talent unfortunately. I enjoyed it before but it’s hard to enjoy now that I can hardly do any of it
I had trouble with math in high school, but when I came back from the army math came a lot easier to me. I attribute this to several things: I was doing transcendental meditation daily, I was getting the right amount of exercise, and I had cut way down on my caffeine intake. Also, I was going to AA nightly, which kept me calm and low keyed. I also think doing two-thousand repetitions a day on the jump rope helped, because counting to two-thousand while I jumped rope every day got me thinking in terms of number and sequence. I just went up through calculus l. I got mostly A’s and high B’s, though. I sometimes wish I hadn’t blown off math when I was in high school.
@zenmind same, I did well is some college courses before an inevitable collapse.
And I wasn’t 100 percent cognition then.
Still I can’t imagine doing now what I did then.
i’ve always struggled with math, but i got through the first ap calc with a b in the first semester and a d in the second. i got a 1 on the exam.
my siblings are very smart in math. my sister is great at algebraic manipulation and has a very fast flexible brain. my brother is great at understanding memorizing and applying formulas.
i don’t do math anymore, my brain post sz doesn’t have the flexibility spontaneity and memory necessary for that. i can sort of read and write but even in that im significantly addled. formulas and graphs confuse me to no end.
I’ve always been good at math, scored in the 99th percentile on the math portion of my college entrance exam (ACT, the Midwestern version of the SAT), and I scored a perfect 800 on the quantitative section of the grad school entrance exam (GRE). I don’t enjoy it, though.
I started college as a chemical engineering major, on account of how good I was at math and chemistry, but I find math boring, and thus I found chemical engineering to be very boring, as well. Chemical engineering is nothing but math with a chemistry background.
Use to be good at math. I took up to calc II in college now I have a hard time doing it.
I’ll probably have to relearn mathematics from the ground up…starting at trigonometry. I need a solid foundation. Of course I’ll use better/harder texts.
Vraylar is great but I talk less on it.
All I really need to know right now is algebra.
I never took the SAT or ACT because I transferred.
Maybe I could study it and become a tutor or something. Assuming I score well…
I used to be a math tutor…up to calculus.
I need MONEY lol.
That is beyond the need of most.
Life is arithmetic… money matters.
That part about your siblings is a great spectrum to lay out. Quick and intuitive on one end… knows how to solve the puzzle… with the framework of what’s been resolved on the other end the referendum contained.
I scored a 36 in math on the ACT. It was my highest category. With science at 28… and the other two falling in to land me at a 32 composite. I never took the SAT. I will say it’s scoring mechanisms are obtuse and intimidating… I wasn’t a fan… it’s another thing that kept me from considering law.
It’s like great… you’re smart… but are you willing to deal with us!!! (inherently confusing fuckwordly nonsensical human beings who just want you to work as hard as you possibly can before you can be rich and realize it’s actually pretty easy (as in humanly possible) obfuscation.
When dealing with the lives and deaths of human beings… the price is always the highest… as well as the pay out being the best.
I’m good at math, bad at mathematics
I know a physics major who was more math oriented… I think it reflects the lack of empathy she feels for things.
She’d rather it be a cold system or hologram. Imagine that. A bunch of cold neurotypicals getting off on how dark and inconsiderate the universe might actually be just so they can justify their spite in the face of displacement.
“Dude did you hear that guy shot up 400 people…”
“Well they’re just holograms anyways”
meaning to be sarcastic here… man I feel like a dick today
It would cost me like 12k at least to finish up my senior year in math. That’s five math classes. I dropped out 6 years ago. I’m not even ready. 12k in loans. If I go to another school, they’ll make me take lower division classes. So I’ll end up paying more. Meanwhile, I could just teach myself programming. Get a decent job doing that.
My gpa was 2.9 after I transferred.
You seem like you have a lot of time on your hands. If I were you, I would just start. Take baby steps. Do one class, then see if you can do more. Don’t sit at home wasting time if you’re so set on getting a job eventually. Get a part time job or volunteer work even. Get experience. Don’t sit at home if you can help it!
I was pretty good in high school and even graduated with an accounting degree but I just did it because I was good at it. Such a silly reason really.
i use to be, before i got sick. i was an engineering student at ITT Tech way before they shut down. i was just four classes short of graduating but i had problems with concentrating, voices, and paranoia. i passed physics with an A.
I was always good at math, but my math teachers ruined it for me. They kept discouraging me from doing more complex math because I was not good enough in reading. I was not well rounded enough, they would say. So, I ended up getting a BS in physics instead 
And now I am more “well rounded” in my waist
