Slow Learning

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How common is it that an autistic person (aspie more precisely) is a slow learner?

Everytime I'm working with a concept It is easy for me to understand it and working on the problems, but the problems occur when it's reading material, I'm slow when it comes to learning by reading. Also I'm utterly poor at mathematical problem solving if I do not understand the question, would that also be considered as slow?

How can I overcome this? If I were to work with 10 tasks in physics I would be able to solve 8-9 of them, the rest of them would be nearly impossible for me to solve, is it also considered slow?

There are some stuffs I just can't get but I definitely am not a slow learner. As long as something is useful or interesting to me I get it in no time. I am often the first one who understands something and comes out with a solution. I usually solve problems three times faster than my classmates then spend rest of the time explaining it to people who didn't get it. At times I even come with better solution than the teacher.

However I have problem understanding complex voice instructions. I easily get it when it comes in written form but get lost if someone says it.

And also, once I freeze I can't understand the problem no matter how much explanation I get but it isn't being a slow learner too. I actually get the thing but get lost in looking for other explanations because I am being distracted by too many informations at once. For example I get what a instruction does but I struggle using it because I see an easier solution and wonder why noone uses it instead. In the end I am unable to use any solution because I don't know which I should use - my own, more logical one or the one, unnecessary complex they told me to.

it seems more often than not, that I have to read and re-read something up to six times before any of it sticks.

If it something in which I am genuinely interested then I will learn it very quickly; if it is something for which I have no care then I will learn it very slowly (or not at all.)

I would generally consider myself a quick learner though.

I'm very good at storing and memorizing facts, data and the like. But when it comes to learning practical skills, I'm a lot slower on picking those up. I typically need to see the process a couple of times, then do it myself a couple of times, and even then I'll rarely get exceptionally adept at it.

It kind of depends on what I am learning exactly...I mean with things that can be shown to me I learn pretty quick, but some things i either simply cannot wrap my mind around like math so its not just slow learning more lack inability to learn it. Then with some things it does take me a while to catch on but it can vary.

For instance I hated having to take computer classes in high school since I already knew how to use them and all the stuff they taught in the classes just through getting on a computer and having hands on experience with it outside of school....no one taught me anything about them really I just started using one and caught on quick, my mom thinks its really confusing and lots of people think that.

But then if I was to try and cook something I can get easily confused with the mesurments of how much of ingredients to put in and all that especially if I try doubling or decreasing the recipie its hard to do the math for that. Though most things I make don't nessisarily need such specific amounts and I can just estimate but baking is really difficult because of all the measurments of fractions of cups and what not.

Thanks for the insightful replies.

But is it common for an autistic person to be generally slow at everything, like processing information slowly, thinking slowly, react slowly...
Even though this does not impact the intelligence.

Is it common for you?

my motor cortex ironically makes me move fast, often too fast for my own good. i think slowly and my reactions are delayed but occur with excessive alacrity.