My experience differs. My brain was intuitively ok until high school. The abstraction shift around cross references between log / exp / S 1/x went right above my head; same for discrete math basis such as prime relationships.

My conclusion is that every one will have strong and weak spots, and it's very important to stay alert to this and not beat around the bush thinking it's not important.

Took me more than a decade to get back into intuitive thinking, where you can play mentally with symbols and ideas just like LEGOs (as I was around high school).