"I am HORRIBLE in math."
I don't wish to hijack the thread.
I am just curious why people will readily admit to being poor at math when they would never admit to being a poor reader, lover, or can't write?
The answer is that a fair number of the teachers they had in K-12 told them that they were bad at math, often in almost boastful terms, and consequently they learned that it is more socially acceptable to assert poverty of mathematical ability than to go through effort to acquire that ability. (Kind of a race-neutral version of not getting good grades to avoid 'acting white'.)
Because it's something that I've tried to tackle but have never been successful at. I'm not ashamed of it, my brain just doesn't work that way.