I know you are waiting for cperciva to give you reply. But I want to tell my own experience.
I was very bad at math when I was in high school. I figured out algebra without problem but failed pretty bad in classical geometry when I was 9th grade. From my 10th to 12th grade, I just have dyslexia to what math textbook says.
Then I studied with 2 teachers for a year to prepare taking another entrance examination in my country (Taiwan). Both explained clearly two things to me that I like most later, one is physics and another is math. The math teacher taught me calculus in 2 weeks and I just started to become literate to meanings in those symbols and after that when I look back analytic geometry and classical mechanics in our high school textbooks, I just felt my mental block was removed! I did not feel any trouble in understanding the problems and I later chose my major in physics just because I like to learn more of it and went through my undergraduate pretty ok and later I found computer science and I started to work in the trench for 16 years.
I did not make any contribution to math and physics, but I still like to use the training that I received in my daily life and I still sometime open books from Dover Publishers to read and feel interested. I like the feeling in figuring out problems and find ways to solve them. And that is the joy I'm glad to had a chance to acquire due to two best teachers that enlighten me.
I know you are waiting for cperciva to give you reply. But I want to tell my own experience.
I was very bad at math when I was in high school. I figured out algebra without problem but failed pretty bad in classical geometry when I was 9th grade. From my 10th to 12th grade, I just have dyslexia to what math textbook says.
Then I studied with 2 teachers for a year to prepare taking another entrance examination in my country (Taiwan). Both explained clearly two things to me that I like most later, one is physics and another is math. The math teacher taught me calculus in 2 weeks and I just started to become literate to meanings in those symbols and after that when I look back analytic geometry and classical mechanics in our high school textbooks, I just felt my mental block was removed! I did not feel any trouble in understanding the problems and I later chose my major in physics just because I like to learn more of it and went through my undergraduate pretty ok and later I found computer science and I started to work in the trench for 16 years.
I did not make any contribution to math and physics, but I still like to use the training that I received in my daily life and I still sometime open books from Dover Publishers to read and feel interested. I like the feeling in figuring out problems and find ways to solve them. And that is the joy I'm glad to had a chance to acquire due to two best teachers that enlighten me.