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15 Jan 2020, 12:43 pm

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I feel you have high intelligence, April.

You don't become a lawyer in your country without high intelligence.

I feel like your confidence needs boosting, though.


Thank you Kraftie, tbh i am not sure about my intelligence, everyone used to call me smart growing up since i got good grades but this is an education system that relies on memorizing ability so i don't know if it means anything.I'm good at memorizing information but i feel like i have adhd, executive dysfunction and reading comprehension problems sometimes. I used to take Medikinet for a while though and i feel it helped a bit.
Well i'll have to try this job for a while since i have already accepted it.



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15 Jan 2020, 12:44 pm

I would bet that at least some of your "reading comprehension problems" are the result of anxiety.

When I get anxious, my reading comprehension sucks, too.

I also know that a brief is hard to write. You must get to the "heart of the matter" in as few words as possible. It takes a great amount of practice to write a good brief.



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15 Jan 2020, 12:56 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I would bet that at least some of your "reading comprehension problems" are the result of anxiety.

When I get anxious, my reading comprehension sucks, too.

I also know that a brief is hard to write. You must get to the "heart of the matter" in as few words as possible. It takes a great amount of practice to write a good brief.


You might be right since i used to read a lot in my childhood and didn't have this problem. I noticed it also randomly gets better after working for a while? I have no idea how my brain works :? The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.



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15 Jan 2020, 1:01 pm

5 or so.
When I think of categories I've succeeded in compared to others on here it's hard to not feel like that represents something even if the list is still smaller than an allistic individual.

The concept of being doubly exceptional is just more proof of this:

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15 Jan 2020, 1:03 pm

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The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.


Aren't legal writing typically quite dry, just the facts in the most neutral way possible, whereas the other types you mention are fairly expressive and creative?


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15 Jan 2020, 1:14 pm

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AprilR wrote:
The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.


Aren't legal writing typically quite dry, just the facts in the most neutral way possible, whereas the other types you mention are fairly expressive and creative?


Yeah, that's why i don't understand why i am having difficulties either :? Maybe it's because it's something i do for fun so there is less pressure as opposed to writing for work.
It's supposed to be dry yes, but concise too and persuasive. In the end you are trying to prove a point even if you don't necessarily agree with it.



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15 Jan 2020, 1:27 pm

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AprilR wrote:
The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.


Aren't legal writing typically quite dry, just the facts in the most neutral way possible, whereas the other types you mention are fairly expressive and creative?


Yeah, that's why i don't understand why i am having difficulties either :? Maybe it's because it's something i do for fun so there is less pressure as opposed to writing for work.
It's supposed to be dry yes, but concise too and persuasive. In the end you are trying to prove a point even if you don't necessarily agree with it.


Ah, the italics is what I didn't know.

I'd imagine it might just be that it's a type of writing that you don't enjoy.


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15 Jan 2020, 1:46 pm

I remember when I was a speech pathology student in a practicum and I had to see clients.

The most trouble I had was not with the clients----but with writing their "case summaries" for their sessions It took me a long time to be concise enough so that it filled up the requisite small space allotted to me.



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15 Jan 2020, 3:45 pm

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!כל הכבוד סלט
אם יש רצון יש תמיד דרך


I can't respond in Hebrew though Teach :wink:


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15 Jan 2020, 3:47 pm

Teach51 wrote:
!כל הכבוד סלט
אם יש רצון יש תמיד דרך
Translation: "Well done salad
If there is a will there is always a way"



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15 Jan 2020, 3:50 pm

Thanks haha


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15 Jan 2020, 9:48 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I remember when I was a speech pathology student in a practicum and I had to see clients.

The most trouble I had was not with the clients----but with writing their "case summaries" for their sessions It took me a long time to be concise enough so that it filled up the requisite small space allotted to me.


That's better than less. There are people who don't care enough and just scribble any old thing. That doesn't help anyone else.

regarding the topic, i feel a 4 or 5 (plus scale).


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15 Jan 2020, 10:34 pm

AprilR wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
AprilR wrote:
The thing is i actually enjoy writing outside of legal briefs. I used to write fanfiction and had journals/diaries etc. I don't know why but legal writing is a completely different category for me.


Aren't legal writing typically quite dry, just the facts in the most neutral way possible, whereas the other types you mention are fairly expressive and creative?


Yeah, that's why i don't understand why i am having difficulties either :? Maybe it's because it's something i do for fun so there is less pressure as opposed to writing for work.
It's supposed to be dry yes, but concise too and persuasive. In the end you are trying to prove a point even if you don't necessarily agree with it.


That's fairly frightening and intimidating to think about. I could never do that.

It also reminds me of the BAD L except he filled it with things to hurt the other person's feelings (he said it was essential). But the way he did it was so skillful that you can't really pull it out and use it against him, or say what the intention was. Even if the intention was to hurt, or provoke, or scare, or make something else out of something (rearrange the facts in order of importance, which makes people think something else happened)

I mean it was done in a really weird and intelligent way....
where you can never say it was expressing anything except certain facts angled in a certain way,
and ignoring other facts.

But it was done with a particular intent, to bring OUT feelings in the other person (without showing one's own feelings), and intimidate and confuse them, and that intent was always accomplished. Really tough to do, I would imagine.

So I guess that takes good theory of mind. I hope you have that. Or maybe it can be absorbed depending on the person's intelligence

I might be thinking of a different aspect than what your particular job requires. So confusing.

See that's what I mean by inspiring.

I can go crazy trying to figure out just one aspect, and that's obviously nothing compared to what else you have to do.

I want to change my scale from 5 to minus 2.


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15 Jan 2020, 11:42 pm

Unknown.

Should I say, like negative something? I dunno. To say a negative number simply means to feel 'bad' -- I don't feel bad about what I feel.

Of one of the very few things that can make me cry.



It's just that... For the things I deal, the things I heard and seen:
I'm not worried, I'm not afraid -- at least, for myself, mostly. I rarely do worry or fear much for others but...

When people are, as they say.. Afraid of the world.. It's making me cry.
They -- these people, be it the town locals, the visitors, those people I passby everyday, my neighbors, my family, complete strangers...

These talks of their concerns, saying things happening in the world are scary -- that they're afraid -- they'll do things to be positive, pray, be ready, whatever.


It's making me cry. :cry: I'm already aware of the situations and can logically conclude some people will panic.
I've already deeply believed that the world is a hostile place and had heard a lot of fear from others -- and yet there was no sorrow in it because that's just me and this hard facts of reality and events happening before me and everyone.

But them voicing the same things as if they wanna cuddle themselves for assurance -- it's making me cry. I don't understand why.



I normally ignore these concerns of theirs like another day and I have nothing to do with any of these, whether I'm aware of their concerns of not.
Yes, I have urges to help others out be it out of altruism or compassion -- but in the end of the day it's none of my business.
Logically, they have more time and resources in their hands unlike I do. So there's nothing for me to worry about others.



So why the sadness?
I'm not sad of the harsh reality (both mine and others'), I'm not sad of the helplessness or uncertain possibilities, I'm not sad that others are worried -- in fact that may piss me off.
I do not sought anyone to assure me that things will be alright because I had truly found out and known that.

Yet I'm sad if people are scared of the world because of things happening around -- I have this damning urge to say things will be fine regardless and have faith -- but how can I be so certain?
How could I assume the uncertain and yet to be seen? How dare I even say have faith when I don't had much of it in the first place?


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16 Jan 2020, 3:26 am

3

i hope nobody takes that room before me.


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16 Jan 2020, 3:27 am

real estate/roof over head, is pretty daggone competitive up here now. i predict within 5 years it will be just as bad as california in most areas up here.