I went through all of elementary and middle school thinking I was bad at math, when in reality, I had a form of synesthesia called ordinal-linguistic personification that altered my perception of numbers by introducing personalities and characteristics to them that made certain equations difficult to comprehend because the numbers ‘didn’t get along’ and teachers just laughed incredulously at me when I said that 8 and 9 were a hostile combination.
Also, I was bad at math.