Might be an unpopular take but… maybe being good at high school math tests is not really such an important gift in the real world.

Haha preach brother

Counter point. I had a customer call me back in the day when I was working tech support. Complained that his new computer wasn’t working. Plugged in, light goes on but the screen just stays blank. Turns out he only bought a monitor. Thought the guys at the store were trying to scam him into “buying two boxes” that he didn’t need. When I tried to explain he got mad saying I must be in on the scam.

Bonus points: when the call first connected his question was "why is my email not working?” Took a while to work that back to the actual issue.