You're at least being honest by saying it's about fear - because it is.

I teach Haskell to experienced programmers and people that have never written code before. I know nothing about math, I dropped out of uni after one quarter, I have not studied math since that time. Most of my students didn't know any math and weren't any worse for it.

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

If you start going through the guide and get stuck, I will help you.

Only fear can stop you, be brave!

To add to this, fear is one of the reasons I've been procrastinating about finishing a type-class related exercise in Beginning Haskell.

There is something terrifying about feeling like you won't be able to solve a problem. However, from experience I know how much better off I'll be after getting over that and solving the exercise ;)