Math Anxiety Specialist
It has nothing to do with being a genius. It just reinforces the stereotypes that divide the world into “math people” and “non-math people.”
When you hear someone say something in a language you don’t speak, you don’t think I don’t understand that because I’m not smart enough, you think, I don’t understand that because I don’t speak that language.
Often, when we’re struggling with math, we’re actually struggling with one of these instead.