I liked math as a kid.
Loved geometry.

BUT I can remember exactly when I began to hate math.
It was 9th grade math and my teacher did not have time to deal with students like me who could not get past the idea that letters could take the place of numbers. If you had a question he would say that it was “inthe book”.
He liked his student who were the mathleats types.

The rest of us got left behind.