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i still trust people and make myself vulnerable to them like i'm a little kid. but i view the people who expressly never do that in life as cowards forsaking the best parts of life. i get hosed over and my trust gets betrayed constantly but to be honest i'm like 40 years old and if you don't realize this is what life is all about then wtf is wrong with you. don't live life with your hands up. you should act dumb as gently caress and then if it blows up in your face it's not really a big deal. bravery and stupidity are the same thing. if you want advice about life from a middle age white man, live your life like a hero, don't hide in a hole waiting to die like a bitch just so you can feel smart. smart people are the most miserable people you will meet in life.
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Hell Yeah posted:i still trust people and make myself vulnerable to them like i'm a little kid. but i view the people who expressly never do that in life as cowards forsaking the best parts of life. i get hosed over and my trust gets betrayed constantly but to be honest i'm like 40 years old and if you don't realize this is what life is all about then wtf is wrong with you. don't live life with your hands up. you should act dumb as gently caress and then if it blows up in your face it's not really a big deal. bravery and stupidity are the same thing. if you want advice about life from a middle age white man, live your life like a hero, don't hide in a hole waiting to die like a bitch just so you can feel smart. smart people are the most miserable people you will meet in life. 
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bossy lady posted:Any time I can't solve a puzzle in a video game. I buy the strategy guide
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Passive Aggreeable posted:Come to think of it, we are pretty smart, you're leaps and bounds ahead of your fellow man for even frequenting this website. i’m gonna stop you right there
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Hell Yeah posted:if you want advice about life from a middle age white man, i’m gonna stop you right there
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Hell Yeah posted:i still trust people and make myself vulnerable to them like i'm a little kid. but i view the people who expressly never do that in life as cowards forsaking the best parts of life. i get hosed over and my trust gets betrayed constantly but to be honest i'm like 40 years old and if you don't realize this is what life is all about then wtf is wrong with you. don't live life with your hands up. you should act dumb as gently caress and then if it blows up in your face it's not really a big deal. bravery and stupidity are the same thing. if you want advice about life from a middle age white man, live your life like a hero, don't hide in a hole waiting to die like a bitch just so you can feel smart. smart people are the most miserable people you will meet in life. heck yeah 
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lol, awesome and yes, exactly
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Jestery posted:I have a natural affinity for mathematics, nothing crazy but just able to dead reckon pretty much any high school level maths and can extrapolate much with that information same id never mix up letter facing visually, like i always knew which way Es and 3s went, but the muscle memory still reverses sometimes if I'm distracted and I'll still have letters come out mirrored, sometimes vertically or horizontally or both. not often but it's pretty unsettling not recognizing at first what you just wrote while simultaneously knowing it's your first name i also learned the pen strokes in the wrong direction (id start a lowercase e from the end of the tail, etc) and still push too hard with the pencil and my handwriting is Rough i can do the mirroring/inversion thing intentionally as well and it's weird bc: Ive never practiced it and don't actually know how to write the letters backwards/flipped - i can reverse an R, but i can't start at 'reversed R' and alter it starting from that frame of reference without it becoming an abstract shape instead of letter form i don't know how to explain very well but i shift my perspective in my head to be like I'm infront of the page, writing through it instead of ontop of it, or with the surface behind my eyes instead of infront, and it just comes out backwards, written exactly like i do normally, the penmanship doesn't change at all. feels like driving a car with your hands crossed over reversed on the wheel if i do it for very long it starts to get really hard to keep the letters oriented the right way without focusing really hard & really weird stuff like double mirroring halfway through a letter or the 'perspective' angle shifting mid-letter making things look all skewed or squished start to happen and it makes my brain feel like it's melting down if anyone knows neuroscience stuff, I've always wondered about that, like, what the gently caress lol
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I struggle to walk away from an arguement or not have them at all. When I believe I've been wronged my mind goes into 'this is war' territory and I just see red. I've gotten a LOT better at this in recent years by cutting out the people in my life giving me so much grief, but hard to do that when sometimes those people are your family. This is magnified when I'm arguing with my girlfriend who is just as much as a sparkplug as me. Those I have to step away for a while from. Fortunately the fights are far and few and usually end with angry sex which is cool I guess. Like take this dick but also know I'm still in disagreement.
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FirstnameLastname posted:same I went through a bunch of my medical records from when I was an ASD elemental child and it was really interesting Weird poo poo like reading right to left , but quickly enough that it would get loaded into "mental ram" and my literacy was 2-3 years above what my age suggested it should be And I could/can count scattered, unsorted blocks faster than sorted gridded ones Really weird smart-dumb stuff that had the specialists being like "Yeah your kid is weird" The great joke is that they mention this valid concern, that I would rely upon this natural talent and be left behind because I didn't have fundementals, just intuitive mathematics Which while fair, my innate talent took me far past what the average person can do before I discovered the wall as they feared I feel like I've got some hosed up brain that uses back up systems in lieu of malfunctioning primary ones, yielding a functional human being and a "fine I guess" response from specialist intervention Jestery fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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I am left-handed as a writer and being left-handed is dumb, everything pokes into the page rather than being dragged across. This is why DaVinci wrote in mirror script. I never learned how to clutch up a wheelie and I had chicken strips on two sport bikes and a supermoto.
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Passive Aggreeable posted:I never learned how to clutch up a wheelie and I had chicken strips on two sport bikes and a supermoto. I learned how to do it once and have the roadrash scars to prove just how poorly it went, that was one month into owning a sport bike 
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I have believed for many years far up in adult age and much longer than i like to admit that newborn babies simply grow back their fingers if they somehow lose one. I think I've read it somewhere as a kid and it always stayed with me as a fact of life.
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Im actual u y EXTREMELY intelligent.
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Jestery posted:I went through a bunch of my medical records from when I was an ASD elemental child and it was really interesting yoo same kinda poo poo backup system brain & all i read in big blocks and not l/r or r/l but otherwise dope weird math ability and reading cheatmode, sailing on raw talent & gettin owned by hubris crew
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I'm one of those people who can become reasonably competent in just about anything they set their mind to, but excels at nothing. 
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Smugworth posted:I buy the strategy guide Looking up puzzle solutions is an admission of my cognitive decline and I can't have that.
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I'm dumb in practically every way. Except for all my amazing quality posts.
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I've owned multiple properties despite never having a good job or knowing how to do my taxes. I still do them, but I don't know what I'm doing, it seems to work out. I also don't know how to fix things, but duct tape, nails and spray foam get things done. I still think the world should be fair.
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I was on the bleeding edge of technology back when DOS 6.0 was a thing. Since then I have been slowly falling behind. Today, I can't tell Instagram from Tiktok. However, I always play it more stupid with my students than I really am. When they ask if I have an Instagram account, I say "No, but I'm on Myspace!!!!" (That is not true. I have never had a myspace page.)
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Have you already reached the generation of kids that don't know what that is/was?
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They have heard about it, but know nothing about it. They are generally awed when I point out that when I was in 7th grade, not one single person in the entire school had ever used a computer. When I got into the 8th, only one person in the school had used a computer. That was me, because my dad and I had built a Heathkit computer over the summer.
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You were basically Mathew Broderick in WarGames then? That's also a cute little story, I'm glad you got to enjoy a project with your father.
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No, He had an Imsai 8080. The Heathkit was far more primitive. The ET-3400 was basically a way of learning about microprocessors. It only had 256 BYTES of ram. Bytes, not kilobytes, not megabytes, bytes.
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DrSunshine posted:I'm one of those people who can become reasonably competent in just about anything they set their mind to, but excels at nothing.  master of nothing right here
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:
 Whatup fellow person whose true calling is "local village wise-person, circa preindustrial era".
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Hell Yeah posted:i still trust people and make myself vulnerable to them like i'm a little kid. but i view the people who expressly never do that in life as cowards forsaking the best parts of life. i get hosed over and my trust gets betrayed constantly but to be honest i'm like 40 years old and if you don't realize this is what life is all about then wtf is wrong with you. don't live life with your hands up. you should act dumb as gently caress and then if it blows up in your face it's not really a big deal. bravery and stupidity are the same thing. if you want advice about life from a middle age white man, live your life like a hero, don't hide in a hole waiting to die like a bitch just so you can feel smart. smart people are the most miserable people you will meet in life. I feel like I do that a lot, not trusting people etc. I mean. But I'm not smart. I just have a constant fear of failure/people realizing just how dumb I am. I call it impostor syndrome but I actually am the impostor. Most of the things I've "accomplished" in life, I've either cheated in some way or used some cheap psychological trick to get by. And the reason I've done that is because I'm so stupid and also lazy/easily frustrated that I really can't retain any new information I try to acquire. So I try to avoid situations where my shortcomings (there's a lot) would come to light and that makes life somewhat hard and nerve wracking which is a stupid way to live. Most of the time I'm just waiting for the sword to drop. So, yeah.
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This is a being a dumb idiot thread, not a coming out with anxiety disorder thread
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Colonel Cancer posted:This is a being a dumb idiot thread, not a coming out with anxiety disorder thread and also not an e/n "i've been hurt by love too many times" thread lmao. why do goons always do this poo poo
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anyway i'm rly smart and not dumb in any way
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at nearly 40 ive pretty much lost all knowledge of any form of mathematics beyond the basics since i havent used any since college i let excel do all my math for me
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I'm good at math and can parallel park better than you but I am tremendously stupid in all other obvious ways, especially posting.Colonel Cancer posted:This is a being a dumb idiot thread, not a coming out with anxiety disorder thread
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Pimpcasso posted:i let excel do all my math for me
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:and also not an e/n "i've been hurt by love too many times" thread lmao. why do goons always do this poo poo Because some people consider themselves dumb for not having figured out how not to be hurt by love more than the normal and expected amount of times
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not trolled not crying posted:I feel like I do that a lot, not trusting people etc. I mean. But I'm not smart. I just have a constant fear of failure/people realizing just how dumb I am. I call it impostor syndrome but I actually am the impostor. Most of the things I've "accomplished" in life, I've either cheated in some way or used some cheap psychological trick to get by. And the reason I've done that is because I'm so stupid and also lazy/easily frustrated that I really can't retain any new information I try to acquire. So I try to avoid situations where my shortcomings (there's a lot) would come to light and that makes life somewhat hard and nerve wracking which is a stupid way to live. this is a thread for smart people, not sure it’s really the place for you
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Jelly posted:I'm good at math and can parallel park better than you but I am tremendously stupid in all other obvious ways, especially posting. i have never once parallel parked because it wasn't a requirement to learn out in the country
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not trolled not crying posted:I feel like I do that a lot, not trusting people etc. I mean. But I'm not smart. I just have a constant fear of failure/people realizing just how dumb I am. I call it impostor syndrome but I actually am the impostor. Most of the things I've "accomplished" in life, I've either cheated in some way or used some cheap psychological trick to get by. And the reason I've done that is because I'm so stupid and also lazy/easily frustrated that I really can't retain any new information I try to acquire. So I try to avoid situations where my shortcomings (there's a lot) would come to light and that makes life somewhat hard and nerve wracking which is a stupid way to live. there is no point in avoiding situations where your shortcomings would come to light, because they will come to light anyways.
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