#(incomprehensible. I've known zero and one since I was a toddler. the horrors are in my backyard)

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

middle school is too early to be exposing kids who think too much to the existential pit that is the concepts of zero, infinity, non-integers, and so forth

#picture me. age 13. spending an entire twenty minutes not doing homework but instead staring out the window #trying to comprehend that not only are there an infinite amount of numbers on either side of zero #(relatively easy. like looking at a horizon that just sorta fades out) #but that the guy in my math videos is now telling me there are infinite numbers between zero and one? #(incomprehensible. I've known zero and one since I was a toddler. the horrors are in my backyard) #and then I cried and I made sure to let the tears drip on the pages of my math book so that my mom would see the wrinkled pages #and feel regret at making me do pre algebra #(I asked her recently. she did not notice) #pickle pontificates