Do you ever feel ret*d?

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Now you see i do things like that all the time!!

I hold post-graduate science qualifications but I have always been unable to do simple long division in my head. In fact I struggle with all simple maths. Thank god for calculators, and mobile phones with calculators.

I hate it when everyone else knows stuff about computers and I dont.

Someone posted a while back about having trouble working a doorknob. Before that, I thought I was the only one things like that happened to. I almost cried.

Some of the most complicated, involved things come easily to me, but I always run into screamingly simple things I just can't do. I never know when it's going to happen.

I feel like a ret*d when I'm with other aspies IRL. Also, I've been feeling more like a ret*d since I discovered that aspies are admitted at the special olympics. I was like "but... but... we're almost normal people..."

I feel ret*d sometimes in the sense that I am extremely immature. I feel like a six year old most of the time. Looking back on elementary and middle school, I was extremely immature and totally clueless about most things that kids talked about at that point. I was always out of the joke. I had a difficult time transitioning from early elementary, child's play thinking. Looking back, I realize how immature I was at that point, and I'm sure I am now and don't realize to what extent. So in that sense I feel ret*d, even though I am relatively intelligent.

Certain things, definately. It's like...some things are so obvious to everyone else but nobody ever told me, and they just take it for granted that I've learned them by now. And then sometimes people say things to someone else and I don't hear because I'm lost in my thoughts and am not listening, so then they get on my ass about it later when I'm supposed to have heard them talking to others but didn't.

aspies are allowed in the special olympics?
really?
wow, that does say a lot that i didnt know

I invariably feel 'a few sandwiches short of a picnic' when trying to socialise with 4 or more people. And the more uncomfortable I feel, the more uncomfortable they feel. And when people get uncomfortable with me I get *really* uncomfortable and so on. Also, I couldn't speak to females at all until I was about 20. I just froze up.

I still have some problems with fiddly little motor-skill tasks. Like with keys and locks . I dread trying to open a door I'm not familiar with. I invariably can't get it to work and mutter something about "maybe the wrong key". If anyone else is there, they'll take the key off me and *click* the door opens instantly. They look at me as if I'm an idiot.

Another thing is working out change when paying for things. I can see the coins in my hand. My brain sends the signal to pick up that one, that one and that one and give them to the nice shop lady. Only, my fingers just won't work properly and they fumble all over the place, often dropping something. Maybe it's just nervousness, but I feel that I've failed to hide my retard-ness when this happens.

And I haven't dared to dance for 20 years as although I felt I was John Travolta, other people made it clear that they did not share this opinion. It was suggested to me that whilst bad dancing is OK, dancing like a "ret*d" was out of order and I should stop it NOW.

Yes, I do sometimes feel ret*d. Sometimes I'm surprised by how "smart" I seem yet other times I hit a wall with what should otherwise have been extremely simple.

yeah some stuff i grasp well amd other stuff i just cant figure it out.
it is part of neign aspie..the trick is to be aware of it.

I have a poor IQ but I act like my age when I'm on the internet or when I'm on the chatroom. Also when outside of the house in public. When I'm home alone that's another story I'm highly impulsive to do just about anything werid that you can think of. ret*d? no

some things come very naturally to me, other things i just never seem to get a grasp on. a few years ago i was hanging out with my sister at her friend's house. her friend spins records (he's a dj and makes club music) as a hobby. i decided to mess around with it, and i really didn't take it too seriously, but my sister was amazed and he thought i had done it before, but it was my first time. i told them it seemed pretty easy, well apparently it is not the easiest thing to learn. you have to sync each record up and mix them together so their beats match up. i tend to pick up musical instruments quite easy. i'm definitaly no virtuoso, but it comes pretty naturally. i never realized this until other people commented on how well i could pick up music.

still, some tasks or subjects are incredibly difficult to me, and yes, i do feel a bit ret*d at times, especially when someone is trying to teach me verbally. i'm a visual learner, so it is hard for me to learn by simply listening to someone. i was terrible at math when i was younger (and i thought aspies were supposed to be good at math), mainly because i usually hated the teachers' methods. it was only in statistics and geometry where i showed stellar performance, because the teachers really made it seem so easy.

A psychologist who worked in my school told me that i probably am ret*d XD In front of my class XD
Oh and the other one said something like, "why do you learn in normal school?" >D It was RUDE!

I feel like a complete ret*d, but on the other side, i don't feel bad with it. I know I'm sometimes completely unable to cotrol myself and i act like a bored 5yr old child adn that peeps hate me because of that, but i just can't feel guilty about that.
I just don't like when people make fun of me when i don't understand something, but it's a different problem.