Not a Numbers Man

As per my post below I was not surprised to learn I’m rather the opposite of a candidate for Asperger’s Syndrome. I’ve always been like this. Much of my childhood was spent playing pretend with my friends and my brother. Every day was spent creating stories, building forts, and designing costumes for the group to occupy the time between breakfast and dinner. I have old notebooks with hand drawn maps, lists of events to travel in time to visit, and visual reimagining of our adventures. The easiest way to get me to do something is to get a buddy to sign up with me (hello basketball, karate, boy scouts, church choir!) and I was always roving with a posse. To this day I still rarely spend time playing video games single-player by myself – I grew up always playing with my friends and that’s just how it works for me.

I stopped understanding, and I mean really understanding, numbers after eighth grade.  I stopped performing well in math, science, and history once you threw in formulas, tables, and dates. But I started excelling in drama, literature, and psychology. To this day I become quickly and easily frustrated with anything beyond basic math and consequently even my “budget” skills have suffered.  All I can say is thank goodness there are lots of people that have strong interest in numbers or this world would stop working. But it’s similarly minded people that keep things interesting and I’m glad I’m included in that group.