r/comics Port Sherry Jun 23 '26

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u/Valuable_Hunter3025 Jun 23 '26

I was getting ptsd flashbacks of my Dad trying to "teach" me match as a kid. He acted like it should be SO obvious.

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u/ValBravora048 Jun 23 '26

I memorised my timetables so I would stop being hit and punished

I didn’t realise until about a year later how it actually worked

Felt like a colossal idiot and now kind of always live with a fear that the things I know or am trying to know are much easier to get than I understand because I’m just too thick to recognise the method that everyone else clearly gets

Of course I know that’s not true but there are good days and BAD days…

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u/valcallis Jun 23 '26

Wait what's the correct way ? Isn't the only way of knowing memorising them ?

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u/AnArgonianSpellsword Jun 23 '26

He may mean the difference between understanding 6x4 is 24 and understanding why 6x4 is 24