@grimalkina @fnohe I suspect those are people who attribute their own difficulty in learning *other* things to those things being just "really hard to learn" instead of to a lack of support and accommodation for their way of learning. Learning programming and physics triggered similar struggles for me - there are some concepts and ways of thinking that my brain finds difficult to grasp and emulate. On the other hand, learning biologically-inspired and behavior-based robotics concepts and ways of thinking just slotted right in and made sense almost from the start, where other people found them completely alien. I taught myself to read as a small child - I had been taught letters and sounds, but the association between letters and words happened by gestalt when I was alone. It would never occur to me to say that children who don't teach themselves to read are just not curious or intelligent, because that's obviously ridiculous. That's some serious lack of empathy and comprehension going on.