For me it’s time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don’t understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That’s it. I don’t understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn’t give you anything.
My wife will hear a song and go “Oh neat, it’s in 5/8.” And I’m like “How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?”
It’s normal. Hardly anyone makes friends after college or early 20s.
And folks that do, it’s mostly through their children. Because they become friends with the parents of their kid’s friends… because it’s convenient.
It might be normal but it shouldn’t be normalized.