Am I autistic? I can't fucking comprehend highschool math. I know this is bad, and I need to in like a year. Is it enough? I can't concentrate at all...been trying to solve some simple equations and was completely blind of the fucking square paranthesis around the fractions.
How can I be this retarded? Also, important to mention, I know most of the theoretical concepts, just always miss something when solving. I really need help /sci/. I mean, I'm planning on practising everyday from now on, but besides that is there anything else I can do for the next year? I don't know how pathetic it may sound...all this...but my whole future hangs in the balance.
Brainlet
>>8793759
Sounds like u need to comme de fuque down . You're letting it scare you. Take a break, do something fun and come back and take it slow. You'll get it. Practice makes perfect
>>8793759
I'm in the same boat as you, I can't concentrate for shit. I do well with abstract thinking, but I really struggle with concrete and logic based issues.
Stimulants seem attractive, but they're not a viable long term solution. I wish I could somehow stop being defunct in this respect.
>>8793769
Well I am pretty scared. I thought I'd like math. I got into a class centered on math bc of previous results. Now I'm a fucking olympic in literature...from a math class. How can one be so wrong? And I'm gonna fail bc of complete "moronness" if that is a word.
>>8793770
I'm honestly trying not to involve any external substances. I've never taken additional classes, heck, I ain't gonna take additional glasses. Excuse my bad rhyme.
>>8793759
You're just scared of notation etc. You'll get used to it.
>>8794056
I'm not scared of notation. I wish I was...if I see it I know what it is and don't have difficulty understanding. But man, some of those incredibly simple stuff just throw a wrench in everything. If I actually manage to understand what an exercise asks of me, then my next big step to overcome is calculating stuff.
Most of the time I know the theorem, but I mess up at the simplest addition. I really do feel like a brainlet for this.
>>8794120
Just do more problems and don't try to memorise math, try to understand it
>>8794120
>"in mathematics you don't understand things. you just get used to them."
i think even if you don't fully understand what you're doing, repetition can instill a form of understanding. often if i don't fully understand the reasoning in a proof, if i repeat it enough times it will eventually click.. but if repetition doesn't do it alone i ask for help
practice nonstop and eventually you will pick things up a bit faster
>>8794307
I actually pretty much follow this idea. I don't really have the mind to understand math, so I just try to memorize specific problem-solving algorithms. At my level there is no need for creativity in finding a solution, most exercises are by the book.
Also, I don't plan on continuing with math, but it is imperative for me to pass the "big bad exam" ahead of me, and in the mock exam I did incredibly poorly(5.9 out of ten). This is why I don't usually learn how functions and limits actually look like on a graph, just learn how to solve them, for example.
I'm on the phone and can't answer two posts at once, but this is also in reply to the anon above. I don't know if this is the best approach, but it's the best I've got...just practising until I remember a reasonable amount of ways of solving a specific type of problem and then hope that I won't get something I'm not prepared for.
>>8793759
Same as you, also feeling autistic, but I'm incredibly good at physics
>>8794366
Well, I am good at humanities(unironically good...don't even know why I spend my time on this board though, maybe hoping to pick some stuff up).
In the end I was pretty uninspired to choose a profile called mathematics-informatics(don't know if this is a word, rough translation), bilingual English...
>>8794383
Im' just hoping that I'll learn how to solve certain mathematical problems without actually understanding them, and so pass my fucking year, seriously mathematics is such a big problem, it's as hard as all the other subjects combined
>>8794407
First lines in this sound like a parody of what I said before. Don't know if that's the case, if not, then we are pretty much alike in this. Wish you the best in your math struggle!
>>8793759
>I can't concentrate at all...been trying to solve some simple equations and was completely blind of the fucking square paranthesis around the fractions.
You're anything but autistic, dum normie
>>8794332
what i was more-so getting at is that enough of "going through the motions" will eventually let you see the pattern and understand
if you don't actually get what you're doing you are basically a trained monkey flipping symbols around on a page
>>8794418
But normie means mediocre and mediocre translates to not enough. How to get 10/10 or A if I am but a mediocre dumbfuck? You even get money prizes here if you get 10/10 at the end exam, not that that would be good enough of an impetus to make me want 10/10. I just hate the idea of being a normie.
>>8794417
I also wish you the the best of luck
>>8794424
Is that a bad thing if you really don't give a fuck about whatever it is you're doing as long as you pass?
I would still love to get what I'm doing, but at times it just feels like way too much information and just ends up clogging my mind.
>>8794418
most people who have autism are low-functioning you stupid shit.
educate yourself
>>8794435
as long as you don't plan to go to grad school then sure
>>8794454
to grad school in maths* I guess you meant. Well, that seems about right, as I plan on forsaking everything science related as soon as I get out of highschool. Still, thank you very much for your help, kind anon!