She is mentally impaired. I hope she is not driving.
Perhaps you should defer to the more literate writers who have studied this more instead of you finding some “new thing” and running with it. Here is a quote from Bishop Horn in 1835, England on your predicament.
“Pertness and ignorance, will ask a question in three lines, that will take thirty pages of learning and ingenuity to answer. And when this is done, the same question shall triumphantly be asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written on the subject.” -Bishop Horn 1835