ok hear me out i’m a south asian girl, my fam immigrated to europe for the whole “better future” thing, so obv there’s a shit ton of pressure around school, esp math. like my parents somehow bring up math in EVERY convo. we could be talking abt literally anything and suddenly it’s “ur failing math” “ur grade is shit” bro I KNOW and idk how to explain it but when someone keeps telling me “ur gonna fail” or “ur dumb” my brain just gives up. i’ll actually sit down to do math, then they start going on abt how i’m gonna fail, i get pissed, leave the math, and do smth else. EVERY. TIME. i swear the second i open my math book they spawn then obviously i can’t focus anymore, so i stare at the book, understand nothing, give up, and now somehow i’m surprised i failed with <30%. like yeah, my past grades are why they say this shit, but then where tf do u think those grades came from it’s literally a loop: bad grade→constant pressure→lose motivation→avoid math→bad grade.