It took me two days to do three fairly simple math problems - one of them nearly grade school simple. I've always had trouble with maths. I simply couldn't comprehend the complicated formulae or strings of numbers. I've always loved maths, physics, sciences, that sort of thing; but being unable to do the equations, cut me off from a world of things I would have adored learning. So I had to stay on the fringe, and learn about things in my aesthetic way; learn what of science and math didn't require numbers, and become a maesthematician. I invented that word.