Your Hatred of Math...Explained!

     I hate math. I have never liked it, and though I took numerous honors math courses in high school (including calculus), I still do not understand it the majority of the time. But, it is not very strange for me to have such an aversion to the subject, for the majority of students and even adults I encounter share this dislike. Why do people hate math though? It was raised in class that hatred is rooted in, more than anything else, fear. We tend to say, "oh, I hate that..." because it is easier, less personal, and more socially acceptable than to say, "I really have a great fear of that". But what exactly is it that humans fear about math? It certainly is not the symbols on the piece of paper. They are fearful of the embarrassment or frustration that might come out of their interaction with it. It is very similar in fact to the reason why people will say that they "hate" learning languages. The further the symbols appear from English, and therefore, familiarity, the more people fear it. This is evinced by the fact that people are much more likely to attempt to learn Spanish or French which uses mostly the same alphabet as English, rather than to learn Chinese or Russian which employs an entirely unfamiliar alphabet.
     But, are humans helpless in the fact that they will always fear the embarrassment that comes with unfamiliarity? One suggestion was that if you increase an individual's understanding of the subject, they will be less fearful, or as the case may be, less hateful of it. However, I do not agree with this. As aforementioned, I took many high level math classes in high school, and one in college. I also took four years of Spanish in high school. Nevertheless, I still dislike the subjects. Is this because I still do not understand them enough after four years, or because my hatred is truly rooted in something else? Perhaps I will never know, and will just keep trying to further my education in the matters despite all of this. It just leads me to wonder, if humans are the ones who "invented" math, or at least "discovered" most of its concepts, then why is it that the majority of humans claim to hate or fear it? Besides the fear, what is it that humans truly hate about the subject? Also, do you believe there are any other animals who are truly capable of understanding and preforming mathematical problems?