“I’m just bad at math” is a sentence that keeps a lot of people bad at math.

Said often enough, that line stops describing a situation and starts managing one. It grants permission to skip the practice that would change things, and every skipped session becomes more proof that it was true. Trouble with a subject is nearly always about which step went missing and when, not a fixed property of your brain. The sentence is doing work, just not the work you think.

Swap it for the narrow version and name the exact thing you cannot do yet: fractions, factoring, whichever it is. Take that one piece to a teacher or a video this week. See what it does to the general verdict.