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This right here was such an infuriating discovery for me. Math never made sense to me until I had a kindly old teacher who insisted she watch me write out every step of a problem (in community college). She pointed out that the logic was fine, I was just being sloppy with my notes which led to errors.

It was like a dam broke over night. Everything clicked and I was so pissed off that it took so long to find such a stupid issue. Better late than never I suppose...