I have an alternating love-hate thing with math. Till I was about 11, I was supposedly good at math. I guess my classmates weren't really bright then . When I shifted to a different school, I started doing very bad in math as all the guys in my class were totally superior to me in raw arithmetic. And I hated math for several years. Once the math started moving away from arithmetic into more abstract concepts, I again started doing well and started liking it.