If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013)
This is half a rant and half a cry for help. I see topics like this on HN often; &quot;Anyone can learn math!&quot; but I really don&#x27;t think I can. Not because I&#x27;m a defeatist and have given up but because I&#x27;ve tried basically all my life to understand math and I&#x27;ve never managed to grasp anything but the most basic concepts.<p>I&#x27;ve tried different teachers, my friends have tried tutoring me, I&#x27;ve tried Khan Academy. No matter what I do, the information just won&#x27;t stick. The connections in my brain aren&#x27;t made. What I don&#x27;t understand is I learn other subjects relatively well. It&#x27;s just math I can&#x27;t grasp which really sucks because I love science and cryptography; two fields I imagine I could appreciate more with a solid mathematical background.<p>It&#x27;s worth noting I have some of the symptoms of dyscalculia, so perhaps my brain isn&#x27;t really built to do math and is why I struggle so much?<p>It&#x27;s frustrating when I see &quot;anyone can learn math!&quot; because I&#x27;ve gotten shit from people in the past like &quot;you can&#x27;t be a good programmer if you&#x27;re bad at math&quot;. I feel like we need to be more accepting that people have strengths and weaknesses in different areas.<p>I&#x27;m tired of feeling ashamed to be bad at math, especially as I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s even my fault anymore.