It’s always been odd when people have told me that I can’t be as good as I am at reading comprehension, processing and integrating information quickly and just general language stuff because I am terrible at operational math.
And then I totally mog them them by taking a four-hour 150-question exam with a migraine and passing it — again, with a fucking bad migraine — in 43 minutes1. In fact when I came out the proctor asked if I needed a break. I said, “No, all done.” Then she said, “But that’s the long test!” And then something about how she didn’t think I’d be done for another couple of hours. Don’t remember her exact words there because I was both very nauseous and near keeling over.
Trust me, bro, you can put me up against 10,000 randomly-selected people in those areas I mentioned in my first paragraph and I will tear them all apart like they are made of tissue paper. But I still cannot solve a quadratic equation and never will be able to do so.