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adjl posted...

I did quite well up until second-year Calculus, at which point it stopped coming to me intuitively and I stopped pushing further because I didn't even need most of what I'd built to that point, and that was over a decade ago now and I've forgotten most calculus beyond the Power Rule. Still, I'd say I'm still much stronger in math than the vast majority of people, understanding concepts that most people never grasped (even if it would take a bit of a reminder/practice to actually apply them) and being much faster and more capable of mental math than most. Obviously, I don't compare to those that actually majored in math and/or turned it into a career, but that's such a tiny minority of the world that it seems weird to use them as metric to evaluate myself. To that end, I don't really know what rating I'd settle on.

I hate school because it becomes a race that cuts out the slow learners.

I think most people could learn advanced calculus... Given enough time.