Pretty much best avoided whenever possible IMO and thats as close as math gets to pretty anything, apart from 'pretty much a fucking pain in the damn arse'
I HATE math. And I am terrible at it too. I've always been badly dyscalculic, and even dialling in phone numbers reading from say a mobile phone is difficult. And after something nasty by way of neurological issues happened to me, my math abilities worsened to just on the numerate side of acalculic.
I've often thought that all in all, I make a pretty damn surprising candidate for anybody to be a chemist/biologist/pharmacologist/toxicologist given quite how atrociously awful I am at math, I have a strong theory that the fact I still am is a gift conferred on me by my autism, since it is not in the nature of Kanner's folk to be flighty and to be anything but persistent when whatever it is is something they love. Sure, I have no choice but to use that hated enemy of mine, mathematical calculations, and to get them right, even if it means shaving bits off a sum or adding bits on tiny figure increments at a time until I hit on the needed answer using a calculator, and that I ALWAYS need to use special software specifically designed for chemistry, such as molar amount calculators, tools to automatically fr.ex 'add X quantity of Y percent or molarity solution of compound of Z molar weight to =how much of Z to add to a specified quantity of solvent to get a solution of A percent/B molarity or C-containing D fraction of a mole per E volume of solvent and such things as that. But there are some nifty and certainly to me not just useful but damn well essential bits of online software I can do all those difficult, frustrating, sometimes otherwise impossible for me and always certain to A-need double, triple and quadruple checking several times over, and B-give me a pounding headache in the front of my head as a result of the intense concentration needed for even (to anybody else) simple calculations.
But what I can't do, the software can, and being 'severely' (gag.puke.die) autistic and consequently 'perseverating' so much (likewise..christ, its really taking the piss taking perseverance, which in NTs is encouraged and considered praiseworthy and judging it as pathological, just because somebody happens to be autie or even aspie, thats one thing I really do find beyond the pale coming from NTs who think themselves superior to those such as myself and my fellow auties, and to aspies as well, its nowt short of fucking disgusting)
If I were NT and put that effort in despite my math difficulties, it would be 'perseverance' and putting in hard work and effort to achieve my goals, but being autie it is 'perseverating' as if it were a sign of a disease or disorder of some kind and whilst I don't get in any way criticized (not that I'd stand for it, or let it slide without snarking the perpetrator half to death) for it, it does sadden me to know that the efforts of many of my kin are put down like that, and their continuing towards their goals despite obstacles, by dint of effort and expenditure of mental concentration, time and drive to succeed in them is judged not as admirable, as the same people as pass such obscenities of judgement against auties, and even aspies too would judge their own NT children and adult family and/or friends for concentrating on even the very same thing until they succeded and praise them for carrying on in the face of hard, demanding tasks or goals until they attain success and yet move the goalposts for those on the spectrum. It is, in a word, sickening.
