Is/was math an issue? | ADHD Information

I'm wondering if many here were able to do well in schoo, once treated or when they would apply themselves and be able to do some assignments, but when it came to math, too frustrating or seemingly impossible?

I love math, but to save my life once it started getting more complex, I couldn't stay with it. I am wondering if that is because of the attention span and once it starts getting longer and longer for a math problem, if maybe we are simply unable to focus or retain long enough to get through each step of a math problem.

Also, I recently found out about a condition called, "Dyscalculia"...sort of reminds me of the words 'Count Dracula' but it seems to be a math learning disability.

I needed a tutor in Geometry and squeeked by. I do know for a fact I could not stay focused in that at all. I was lost so often but the heart was willing. So, after a while I just stopped trying. I felt, "why bother".

Maybe this has nothing to do with ADHD/ADD at all and it's just me.

to me high school math was SO AGONIZINGLY POINTLESS.

for me personally, i have to have something to motivate me, i did well in reading because usually we were given interesting stories to read and learn; art gave me a sense of accomplishment...i did not do too well in science, but there was motivation there a little bit, I liked to learn how things work, and why things do what they do; spanish class, i excelled in because I LOVE other languages.

But math?

there are a bunch of numbers just sitting there on the paper.  When you are done with the paper, there is no story, no point.  In high school math, usually you never use what you learn...IT SEEMED TO SERVE NO PURPOSE!

now, if had math games, or some sort of puzzle that you had to solve math problems in order to solve, i was all over it! made excellent grades on curious math puzzles, THERE WAS A POINT TO THOSE!

but regular normal every day math stuff was just too pointless: i spent those periods asleep.

Math never worked for me because I am totally visual..I can't visualize numbers so I flunked out a lot.Hi golden,
I like Math because I believe in it- and I like puzzle solving. Despite understanding the concepts, I have trouble coming up with the right solutions because I forget where I am on my paper and forget to carry numbers- the procedures don't come naturally and dont become habit for me.

My facorite math course was a basic number theory course with written proofs. There, I did not actually have to calculate. I just had to write out what the steps were and why.

 
I never had any luck with math, past say second grade. I can't even help my children with their math homework. Once I started college, the disabilities counselor sent me for neuropsych testing to see if I have a math disability. Turns out (according to tests) that I do not, so he's diagnosed me with 'math anxiety'. I hate it true, but I still think there is a disability in there somewhere, because everything else academically comes fairly easy if I apply myself, but math? No way! Although it helps if the numbers are green (money).

I guess I'm visual as well, in the Linux operating system there is an option to set the clock to read in words, ie. Ten to Twelve. And for some reason, the lack of numbers are very soothing to me.
I could do Algebra and below but tha was it.  Story problems were always realy hard to me.  To guet by I had to write down each part as I read it.  I always had to read it like 10 times otherwise I would get distracted in the middle and start thinking about something else entirely then I couldn't remrmber if what I was thinking about was part of the problem or not.  The happiest day of my life was when I found out that I was done with Math in College. 

Math is one of my highest rated IQ #s.   Although I only ever took general math at the high school level.

I have taken bookkeeping and accounting I & II principles classes.

Once I got to accounting principles III or at the end of the bookkeeping classes my mind started getting confused and I just couldn't "get" it.  I now know it was/is ADD................I was diagnosed ADD at 49.7years old.

For 19 years I worked in a Finance office and did enourmous amounts of number related projects/work...........................At this time I can't even count change for my kids at rummage sales. 

When I quit this job I thought I was burntout.  Didn't have a clue that it was ADD.

Since it's always been difficult for me to comprehend reading, I have read little.  But I still try and just quit every 15 minutes and then need to search on the page to where I ended at the last time.  So I always try to end a page in the same spot and try to remember where that spot was...........

I very much relate to your comments of finding learning so hard.

Come to think of it 20 years ago when I applied for that finance job, one of the interview questions was "what book are you currently reading?".  Boy do I understand now why I couldn't answer with a title of a real book.  And said "Im not reading a book right now but I'd like to take latin before I die".....................

Just what I plan to waste my time on at this point in my life.  Like I don't have the memory to do it if I could.

Wish I'd known then (when in high school) that I had ADD and maybe just maybe I would have taken that latin class then (maybe my reading/comprehension would have been better if science had known then what it knows now about ADD).

Sorry about the rambling............................take care all!

No can do abstract math. I had to take algebra/trig 3 times.

Now geometry, on the other hand, made total sense because it was visual.