I’m getting tested in a bit over two weeks and today was the pre-exam via video call.

The assistant dude that did the interview asked how fiddly/hyperactive I see myself as, and I was like “eh, a bit but not that far above average” Apparently I had been rotating back and forth in my desk chair for the entirety of the preceding 10 mins, which he did point out :|

Apparently it’s also not called “Girl math”, but “Impulsive over-spending”. SMH my head

On an upside though, he also owns reptiles and was happy to indulge an unreasonable amount of questions about his chameleon!!

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    A shame OP hasn’t responded yet.

    I’m mostly familiar with ‘girl math’ as a style or flavor or theme in TikTok posts where usually teenage or young adult girls/women explain how…

    Actually, if I buy and then return some shoes or clothes, that is not a net 0 for my budget, but actually I’m making money.

    Or… If I don’t buy a coffee today… that’s actually increasing the amount of money I have… as opposed to, again, it being just null, no impact.

    I am genuinely asking OP this because I’ve personally met a number of younger folks who…

    …seem to actually take this seriously, and think it actually makes sense… not realizing that it is just a collection of utterly nonsensical justifications for frivolous spending… that the ‘math’ is complete bs…

    … while some other younger folks will just laugh and say, hah what no, all those posts are jokes, obviously that’s nonsense, the joke is how stupid it is.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Oh wow you deleted my comment.

        I am 35 years old, and autistic.

        I’m not especially savvy to newer, younger social/internet memes, and I was honestly describing my understanding of ‘girl math’ as a modern social meme or phenomenon or what have you.

        I genuinely was, and still am trying to figure out if my anecdotal experience with ‘girl math’ is a reasonably accurate understanding or not.

        Could you perhaps point out where I was specifically horrible towards OP?

        I’d love to be able to review what I wrote, but you’ve deleted it.

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Well its been about 24hrs now, MrPoopyButthole has been posting in this time, so they would have seen my reply… apparently they don’t care to expand on this.