I wonder if babs timeline is always out when she talks about TV / general 90’s culture that she was far too old for is because she’s never had any friends? Rather than the standard “take your little brother / sister with you” Claire was the one with friends who would go out and was forced to take her unpopular big sister babs with her. Babs now just remembers all the events that were age appropriate for Claire and not for herself, but if she didn’t hang around with Claire then she’d be on her own.
For someone who apparently has loads of photos from those days, she only ever shares the same ones and talks about following boy bands with Wowcher Life Coach Sheila, whereas I’m sure most of us have multiple friends groups from our teen life (Jesus I did and I was relentlessly bullied, but I can still name more than just the same person over and over!)