Budgies are parakeets but parakeets aren't technically budgiesOk, sorry I thought that you meant that they were the same thing. sometimes people show me two photos of budgerigars and say "this one is a budgie and this one is a parakeet" and I have to explain why and how these are literally the same thing. Or people saying that budgies don't exist and it's people saying that any small parrot is a parakeet and when I tell them "what about lovebirds" they go "No, that's a parakeet" and I have to explain how they have a completely different genus and ate different species. When I eventually get a job I want to become a ornithologist/biologist so I can continue to study animals and birds! But sometimes people try to tell me "you can't do that" or "you'll never be able to do that if you have ADHD" but I love talking to other people here because I can talk to people about this kind of science things and about birds!
Lots of people don't know/understand that. I have six parakeets but only five budgies
I also love talking about birds, budgies in particular are just a small obsession of mine