>>34484734Just learn the basic ways of reading a periodic table, learn your valence electrons and atomic orbitals and learn basic math so you can balance equations to make them fit the law of conservation of mass and you're set.
If you keep it to simple chemistry and more or less ignore a lot of the transition elements and heavier stuff you can get a simple clean understanding of chemistry. It's going in depth and finding out a lot of the rules you've learned don't always apply that makes shit complicated.
