as a kid with a learning disability that made me comically incapable of doing arithmetic on paper, thinking about this always makes me feel good https://t.co/yBWxoaAXeV

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) December 8, 2021

I also can’t do math of any kind. This “calculator” thing was already false even in the 1980s. I had a fucking PDA of some kind since 1989! I was literally walking around with a fucking calculator in my pocket when teachers were saying that BS.

(And if you wonder how a poor kid got a PDA in 1989. Imagine it’s quite small. And imagine how easy it is to get something small out of a store if you’re resourceful. How could that work? I had five fingers and they provided quite a discount.)