Hmm, I recognize myself a lot in this, and other people tend to say I'm good at math, but I don't consider myself very knowledgeable about math at all... Anything I should take into consideration before I conclude I'm just suffering from some variation of impostor syndrome?
I think impostor syndrome is a good bet for you, at least by comparison with me, since I only see about 3 of these propositions in myself.
In spite of getting A's up through Calculus II in high school, I stopped taking math after that (except for a couple of applied math subjects like number theory and statistics) because I had reached the point where math problems were starting to (literally, not figuratively) give me a headache when I tried to "hold them in my mind".
I am curious if other people on Lesswrong ever experienced the "this literally hurts my head" barrier at any point in math, and if so when.
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