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Dominus Euergetia · 5 answers · 6mo

Why can't we have a useful flavor of autism
There's a boy who sits next to us in math, his special interest is literally
M a t h
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Why do I feel like that boy would be the type of person you see in math book problems.

"John buys 200 watermelons...." Stuff like that.

I think schools are designed to suck all of the fun out of every topic they cover. When I've gotten autistic about math-related things, it was thanks to YouTube channels like Stand-up Maths and Numberphile, which actually try to make it entertaining.

You also can't force special interests to happen. They have to grow organically.

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