Why do I find math so boring
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When I was a kid I got evaluated for some kind of "neuropsychiatric diagnosis", and turned out my performance IQ was "marginally higher than that of average by a long shot", and verbal IQ was "average", while saying I apparently have ADHD. This was actually in my early teens.
Reading up on it it turns out a big difference between Verbal IQ & Performance IQ is caused by brain damage. Great. Another funny thing is that the evaluators commented that "you must be extremely good at math", because apparently performance IQ is correlated with math.
When I was a kid I was good at it, since I was a teen, I found it boring as fuck. Counting numbers for no reason? No. I was way more interested in things like language, psychology (learned Russian & Chinese in 2 years fluently, as a native English speaker). You'd think that verbal IQ would correlate with that, so why the fuck am I good at that stuff but suck at Math in general?
I'm slow to process shit. I take ages to calculate a math problem. But I still scored extremely high on the performance IQ tests apparently. Is this a result of ADHD? Brain damage from drug abuse? I abused Meth and Alcohol since I was a child.
I master things quite easily if I have 1 thing to focus on, but I always sucked at math because I never listened, ever. People tell me "it's just logic bro" but I found IQ tests to not at all be like math is. In Math you have to learn methods and techniques to figure out a problem, not in IQ tests.
What's my issue? Should I just focus on Math? The past few years I've found myself getting more interested in the Science subjects. I am also currently drunk and on a PCP analogue, do what you want with that, I've abused meth and amphetamines since I was a kid. Probably fucked my brain too.
I'm sure I made no sense at all. Really my question is, why do I suck at math, and how do I become better? Do I just focus and actually put effort into it, and it will come to me?
Reading up on it it turns out a big difference between Verbal IQ & Performance IQ is caused by brain damage. Great. Another funny thing is that the evaluators commented that "you must be extremely good at math", because apparently performance IQ is correlated with math.
When I was a kid I was good at it, since I was a teen, I found it boring as fuck. Counting numbers for no reason? No. I was way more interested in things like language, psychology (learned Russian & Chinese in 2 years fluently, as a native English speaker). You'd think that verbal IQ would correlate with that, so why the fuck am I good at that stuff but suck at Math in general?
I'm slow to process shit. I take ages to calculate a math problem. But I still scored extremely high on the performance IQ tests apparently. Is this a result of ADHD? Brain damage from drug abuse? I abused Meth and Alcohol since I was a child.
I master things quite easily if I have 1 thing to focus on, but I always sucked at math because I never listened, ever. People tell me "it's just logic bro" but I found IQ tests to not at all be like math is. In Math you have to learn methods and techniques to figure out a problem, not in IQ tests.
What's my issue? Should I just focus on Math? The past few years I've found myself getting more interested in the Science subjects. I am also currently drunk and on a PCP analogue, do what you want with that, I've abused meth and amphetamines since I was a kid. Probably fucked my brain too.
I'm sure I made no sense at all. Really my question is, why do I suck at math, and how do I become better? Do I just focus and actually put effort into it, and it will come to me?
