re: #258 vxbush

She probably listened to Barbie say “Math is hard,” and believed her.

To be honest, math is hard for some of us. I fell behind around second grade. Somehow, I was not placed in the correct math class and I arrived in 5th grade a few years later with no idea that such a thing as multiplication existed. I was given a times table and told to get with the program. Because I excelled in other areas, no one thought I needed any more help than that. I eventually figured it out, but it poisoned my experience with math for years. It was never easy or intuitive for me and I avoided it as much as possible. One of the happiest days of my life was when the adviser at the college I graduated from said my transfer credit in statistics was enough to fulfill my graduation requirement. No more math!