Feel like the dopey sh** one here...

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To me... everyone here has a lot of knowledge and looks like they have something about themselves such as a talent or great at their interests...
and then there's me... not so intelligent... not so talented and not really that good on interests...
I don't think I really know who I am anymore... apart from some poor sap who is... depressed. Yeah I see a lot of potential with everyone else than I do with myself... always have done.
I generally feel like a set of wasted genes... because nothing extraordinary came out, no unique abilities or savant stuff...
Hell... maybe I should go into drugs and alcohol and stuff excessively... nothing happened that's shown any talent or anything in me at all. After a sleep... I may feel a little better but not much which is my opinion.

We all tend to see our own failures with a carity that no one else does. And we see other people's successes with a similar clarity. Don't be too hard on yourself.

You seem pretty popular around here, at least from what I noticed. There must be a reason for it. For example, your personality.

I also feel as though I'm one of the dimmer lights on WP. I can't join any of the more intelligent conversations here. I can give a lot of Sweet Pea hugs and keep the Mod Spirit alive. Hugs and Kinkiness don't get me anywhere with some of the young judgemental members though. There's the odd one who thinks that I should shut up about my special interests and try to be more NT or more like them. There are threads that look interesting to me at first glance and when I read them, I find that I can't join them. They're filled with high intelligence and logic and those are the two things that I'm lacking in. My Mod-like personality shows through and I end up talking about The Kinks and the 60s, while my inner hippie gives out Sweet Pea hugs. I won't give you hugs unless you want them, though.

Cheer up! Man I have felt so down lately. I feel irratable and sad, and the hardest part is not knowing why. It's like I have a breif fleeting moment, where I'm like. I'm human, what's the pointt? I'm human? <3

Indeed, I for one like your personality. Also, it's not good for anyone to compare themselves to other people, because you're bound to find someone you think is "better" and get depressed. The only person you should compare yourself with is you. Cheer up, everybody has potential, and you are not excluded.

Baby, baby, baby, listen to me! You are not the odd man out here! I feel the same way too. I have no looks, no great intelligence, and I suck at a lot of things. The only thing I don't suck at is spinning my personality to be whatever it needs to be at that point in time! Which is a simple skill that you can learn too, really. I'll show you how.

Mainly what I do is pay attention to my surrioundings and the people around there. I used to watch a lot of tv or movies and pick the best lines out that can be used in other places. Us them. Copy the people around you to a degree. Eventually when you are comfortable in a place you will start using your own dialogue there. You also start to eventually feel it and think you need to say those things.

"Dude, really?" will eventually be a remark that you make when incredulious rather than one you make when you think you should.

Relax PastFixations,

If anyone's a dopey s**t around here, it's me.

PastFixations, I happen to find you quite intelligent. Sadly I'm hard pressed to remember your interests, otherwise I'd compliment you on those.

This website makes me feel pretty smart because I'm not a part of the stupid brony trend or the furry trend or the anime trend, doesn't that make you happy too?

Just remember that, for all of our intelligence, many of us are either unable to find employment or work at jobs far beneath our abilities. Heck, I deliver pizza. In a lot of conversations I have in real life, I end up being the odd quantity. Either I am too smart, knowledgeable and articulate to fit in with uneducated people, or I am all those things but too quirky, poor and unsuccessful to be taken seriously by educated people. There is nowhere in this world I am wanted. Yet, I am not rejected here, and neither are you. For the record, I think you have had quite a few decent responses. It may just be that since people do not quote you all that often, you do not feel you were noticed. I feel the same way sometimes too, so you are not alone in this.

Popularity has always been a part of me wherever I went... was an icon to many for how they want to be in terms of being openly friendly.
...Yeah, my personality is very much friendly.
Thinking that some are better than oneself isn't that great. The only thing that one should be doing is looking at the progress one has made in their life.
For everything that one doesn't have... there's something else that makes them somebody unique and interesting.
Thank you, EVERY ONE of You!

No you are not. Looking over a few posts, I believe that you genuinely mean well with advice. Also I think you can be likeable if you want to be.

That's what makes you likeable... instead of trying to be intelligent or saying something... you are good at comforting others when they are in a unhappy state.
Hugs and Kinkiness is still pretty cool to me and I'm a youth.

The fact that you seem to be a likable person is actually a marketable trait in the current service oriented society. If you're willing to be someone who directly deals with customers and is good at it, you could land a job pretty easily. I least I would assume so. (No assume jokes please.) That and being well liked has plenty of benefits in and of itself.

So if nothing else, at least you have that. If there's any kind of realistic talent in me, I haven't found it. Nor is anyone around me pointing out anything but a laundry list of my personal shortcomings.

So, um....yeah.

Well i'm not highly intelligent either I never went to university or anything like that I leave it to the ones who know all about politics and things.
I think its better to have life skills and be independent then be popular.

Perhaps those people you are talking about don't consider themselves good in any way for those reasons - much like you don't.
While I can appreciate others talents, I can never appreciate my own.

Most of the things others like about me are intrinsic things that I had no choice but to develop because the AS obsessiveness drove me to it.
They were already already there, or had no choice but to develop because they were natural extensions of it driven by the obsessiveness.
I can't consider that a good thing - it's not something I choose, nor something I worked for, therefore it holds no value to me.

I daresay your strengths are obvious to others but not to yourself, for those same reasons. Most of yours are probably intrinsic and therefore you feel no "achievement" over them to be proud of, or even aware of them. It doesn't mean they they aren't obvious to others here, even if some members may find it difficult to put into words.