Ditto for me, especially regarding math. That was always my worst subject.
My problem is due to problems with my short-term memory. It’s as though my short-term memory is like a small pitcher that fills quickly and needs time to process before I can take in more stuff.
It’s not because I lack IQ. Having had it tested several times, I consistently score between 135 and 160.
I was kind of mixed in math. I had the lowest grades in my math classes until around age 15. I’m still not sure what happened, but it was like something shifted inside my brain. Instead of being an endless list of rulas and tables, math suddenly became a language, and I could speak it, fluently. I went from being the slowest in my math class to being the one my classmates came to for help. It also stuck. Even now, I can look at something moving and “see” vector equations swirling around it. Most of my old classmates, the ones who were great at memorization and regurgitation, don’t even remember their algebra.
Math class went from being impossibly frustrating, to being boringly frustrating. I think an online school might have helped both of those stages.