sigma, i've got an "artistic eye", or so my teachers told me. i struggle with basic algebra, but i've been known to intuition complex trigonometry in my head without being able to explain it, with enough consistency to write out dumb luck. complex geometry, no problem. ask me to calculate the volume of said geometric figure, and i'm a fish out of water. what i always did was find the way that seemed the easiest for me. let's just say i was not my many math teachers' favorite student. on the contrary, the added pressure for being math dumb in a society that prizes scientists made me develop a near-phobia to math more evolved than basic operations. to this day, the teachers saying "it's not hard to get, try harder", or worse "yeah, you're just litterary" and brushing me off left me with a very stunted level in mathematics. nevermind that i can aim a trebuchet precisely (ok, ballistics is technically physics, but it's applied trig). i'm still very leery of math in general.
perhaps you saw the opposite, but in my case, it discouraged me more than anything. and partly the reason why i studied the humanities and languages, and not ballistics, physics, or chemistry.