Meanwhile almost every job or career uses a calculator to some degree. And those who dont either have no use for them or the math is so simple that you really don’t need a calculator.
" or the math is so simple that you really don’t need a calculator." That was the math they were trying to get you to remember and know how to figure out.
Nah, that’s the thing with mental disorders and other things: They’re usually just an imbalance of otherwise normal behaviors/moods/etc. Most people should be able to relate to most mental disorders.
They just shouldn’t do the, “lol I’m so OCD!” thing, because that trivializes how nasty the real disorders get. The people with the disorders don’t just have flashes of silly desires or emotions (usually), but rather a literally debilitating to normal daily life disorder that no one would want to deal with.
Yeah but it’s really funny to say “I’m so ocd” to the sorts of shit that got me diagnosed with it. “I’m so ocd my panic takes a spiral pattern” or “I’m so ocd I have to check if I locked my car door 3 times, not 2, not 4, maybe 6, but sometimes 9”
I always find this interesting because my story went something like this:
“ADHD are just people with normal impulses, but more frequent and less able to control them”
“I’m smart and able to multitask really well. Sure I fixate on things sometimes but everyone does. And of course I can have that espresso before bed. Caffeine doesn’t affect me.”
“Everyone creates patterns in their life to remember basic things. Counting steps in my daily routine, time boxing tasks with alarms, and giving myself lots of little rewards is just efficient time management. I wouldn’t call it a coping mechanism”
“Having kids is stressful and my patterns are broken, that’s normal right? I should talk to someone.”
“What do you mean I’m ‘ADHD as fuck’. You’re a doctor, that’s not appropriate language”
“This medication reduces a lot of my internal anxiety and let’s be be in control of my life. I had no idea normal people felt like this all the time”
So, please, tell us how neurodivergent traits all seem normal to you. And welcome to the club.
I’m not sure if in Maths teachers imaginations, there’s a James bond of maths, out there, and to save the world he has to divide by pi. (in which case they’d pick someone who actually likes maths, anyway) Or, they imagined, either we all collectively or just one of us, has a save the world moment, and it involves solving some maths thing. I don’t think they were quite the heroes they imagined themselves. Or maybe they are and this is all out there, and we just don’t even hear of it.
How about asking someone to repeat something twice, really really wanting to retain the information and then you fail for the third time?
Also does anyone else end up losing the entire message because you are telling yourself to remember it, and then you realize, they are done talking and you still don’t know?
And that thing where you're reading something, and you know you read the words, but none of them "stick" and now you have to re-read the whole thing to figure out where you got lost.
I’m 100% neurotypical and and find that pretty much every community is just a bunch of relatable memes. ADHD, Autism, Bi-polar disorder, depression, etc.
Same thing with all the various sexual identities. I’ll call out bisexual people because I think most of them will admit it: they’ll take literally any behavior and appropriate it as a key element of bi culture. Lemon bars? Bi. Bad sitting posture? Bi. Cuffed jeans? Bi. Finger guns? You’re not a goofy sitcom character, you’re bi! Appropriating any innocuous behavior as part of your sexual identity’s culture? Bi!
I’ve got no problem with it. Anything for more good memes.
It’s not just bis. Gays do it to. I found out from Reddit gay subs that I should be a fast walker. Apparently gay people all walk fast. Not something I’ve ever noticed.
They’re prepared differently. Don’t usually see baked beans of any kind in Mexican cuisine, just like you don’t see a lot of refried beans in British cuisine.
I just had baked beans on toast with eggs today. Made them myself with onions, mushrooms, garlic, smoked paprika powder, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon and a shot of maple syrup. It tasted great and I am not even English.
Best use of my pressure cooker*! Bulk black and pinto beans, 40m in the cooker with water and salt, then onto the stove with sauteed onions and garlic, a fair amount of oil, apple cider vinegar, pickled jalapeno or two, spices… absolutely fantastic with some rice. And our toddler loves it too.
*Instant Pot, but pressure cooker sounds more… haute cuisine.
Are we still acting like this excuse was the actual explanation for why you couldn’t use a calculator?
They just said this. It was easier than trying to explain the nuances of education to kids. The actual reason was “because you have to learn to use your brain to do shit, it’s kind of important.”
Like, this is the equivalent of being upset the gym teacher wouldn’t let you use a segway in class. You’re missing the point.
and unless you’re carrying one of those solar powered calculators in your pocket, how are you gonna charge your pocket calculator in the post apocalyptic era? You gonna waste guzzoline to run your car to charge your phone?
To me, it’s always crazy when someone asks a simple math question, like “how much will I paying for this month?”, and then the phone comes out. Dude you only had to add up three or four numbers.
Neurological pathways need to be reinforced. If you aren’t doing mental math regularly your ability to do it degrades.
Obviously there’s very much a negative cycle at play thanks to the prevalence of modern computing but even then it’s simply a matter of most people not needing to use math much day to day.
Thank you. I also can’t stand people who keep saying out loud I’ve never needed a quadratic equation why doesn’t the school teach me how to do taxes. For one thing if you didn’t have to ever use a quadratic then you never understood maths enough to apply it and walk away from the problem. Secondly if school taught you taxes ups be the one complaining the most about why you have to do taxes in school.
While I agree that it is good to learn to do math without a calculator, it’s not necessarily the case that the teachers who said “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” didn’t think that was the exact reason. Also, there’s nothing wrong with just stating the real reason if that’s what they really believed.
Hey, the Golden Globes is in January and the Oscars are in March, and I really, really want to be a winner instead of a nominee this year, can you blame me?
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