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boomerang109 · 4 years ago

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asfdkslsck Boom I love you so much, I can't do math either and it made me so happy to see you work through it on the "no gay has all 5 post" because that's exactly what I did too

this made me SO 🥰🥰 cause i think i saw it right when i woke up? and for context, i posted my lack of math skill at like 2am and i had to wake up at 8 to finish an assignment before my 9am, so i was fucking EXHAUSTED and i just really needed the ego boost of getting love from a mutual (especially right before my terrible morning class) so thank you 🥰

#ask a boomerang #also i think i've complained about this before #but basically my family is Really good at math #(literally my dad's brain contains a calculator i swear. and 2/4 siblings are engineers and 1 of the others is in finance or something math)#and i have this really distinct memory of how Mad my siblings were in third grade at christmas cause i didn't know my multiplication tables #cause they all had to know it by christmas break but i still didn't know them #(i'm still not sure i ever knew them. but if i did it wasn't till at least 6th grade)#but the weird thing was like i could do Actual math?#like simple addition/multiplication/subtraction/division count me out #but algebra? geometry? fuck yeah i could do it #and i was HALF A POINT away from being in the special group for math in fourth grade #that's the only time my parents have fought the school on anything ever #like my mom knew about me getting bullied for a good six months before she did something but i don't get put in the advanced math class?#she's immediately calling them up cause she's like excuse me we know this dude and he likes boom and boom would be good at this class #and they were like yeah but boom didn't get the score so too bad so sad #(so every week i'd see other kids leave class and be like :/ but i didn't mind too much)#cause i still managed to be in all honors classes for math through junior year of high school #but somewhat sophomore and seriously junior year was when they stopped letting us use the calculator #and as i said and you saw in that post #i can't do simple math #(and junior year was also calculus and that's too theoretical for me as well)#so finally i dropped math so that senior year i could take extra english classes #(and no you're not Really allowed to do this but i had enough math credit to graduate and the last time my guidance counselor said no to me #had a mental breakdown halfway through the year cause her advice was wrong and what *i* said i needed was right. so she didn't want to risk #that happening again lmao)#and i haven't taken math since and i've kinda had to admit that math isn't really my thing #especially since whenever i do it. it tends to go not so well (although i'm getting better at timezones lol)#but despite--or maybe because of--my inferiority complex the whole 'gays can't do math joke'#has actually really helped me? just make it like a fun ✨quirky relatable✨trait rather than a personal failure or not like my fam #so yeah this was totally oversharing but it's just really nice progress for me

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