i hate math

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tw: calorie counting, mentions of vomit

~it's been a rough summer~

written on: august 8, 2023


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i hate math.


nobody understands why i pull out my phone

to use my calculator app

even for easy equations that i learned to solve in middle school


i was always good at math

always got an A in algebra and calculus and geometry 

took honors and advanced placement and did well


when i turned fourteen

numbers were all i could think about


but i did too much mental math over the span of the those four years 

and now i can't look at a plated sandwich or a bowl of ice cream or even the three baby carrots i dropped on the floor without my mind spinning

adding and adding and adding until i want to vomit


so i don't do math anymore

i let my calculator app handle it

because those numbers in my head reek of death


and i really hate that.



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