How has your intellectual evolution been progressing?

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I would say its been an interesting journey so far. At first I was a kid who was a little social who asked too many questions in school, afterwards I was pretty much an introvert with his mother for a long time in my childhood during homeschool although I could make friends with the other neighbor kids, afterwards I was pretty social albeit crudely in college due to the previous phase, then went back to being an introvert again after the whole bootcamp/depression/suicide problems caused by that previous phase, and now finally I am at a point where I have forgiven my previous self, have a twisted and cynical sense of humor about things, can be quite social despite being eccentric, and frankly I really want to have more social time with people.

I am at a point where I am no longer satisfied talking to people through text, I find it crude and inefficient. I love to speak about things with people and I have alot of history I would like to share and talk about. So now I have a big need to be social and its weird because I've been a virtual hermit with his small cliche of friends for so long. So like I said, I've gone through many different forms but I like to think this one is the best so far. Why? Because I now have a beard and years ago I said I couldn't grow one.

So where are you at in your current evolution of the self? Its okay if you're at a place that is not the best. We are all at where we are at. However, considering how my life has gone, things will inevitably change one way or another. So you never know what in the end you will get. So give your life a chance or as my favorite comedian George Carlin would put it, " Take a ****ing chance would ya!?"

I feel like my intelligence has acted like a tree's root system. Heavily seeking out a water source then abandoning it for another. Sort of a Jack of all trades.

I've gotten kind of good at the game of giving myself out in doses to make it so I'm not in my loved ones face every day. That's the nice thing about having a lot of good friends; I can spread my attention and not burn someone out even if it's hard for me not to share. I still seem to wear down on people a little but I think it's more the insecurity I get from never knowing if what I'm saying is driving them crazy. I add a lot to my speech to prevent people from thinking I mean one thing or another. My friends feel like I'm trying to manipulate them with passive aggressiveness and I think that might be a part of it.

Yeah information overload was something I had to deal with in my earlier days. One of my Aspie friends still has the problem though and I cringe every time he overly explains things and overloads people with information as I used to. I try to reign in him every now and again to keep people from feeling like hes patronizing them when hes just trying to be thorough.

Well, as a child I sought out a group of friends but ultimately my imaginary world was more important to me than they were, with the exception of one other girl in particular. Which made it all the more tragic when she and I got into a couple of arguments and stopped being on speaking terms. After I dropped out of school a couple of years later, I had no desire for friendship and pretty much cut off all contact with the outside world with the exception of immediate family members. This worked out fine until I realized that I had too much time to mull over my own thoughts and was becoming increasingly neurotic (I literally felt like I was driving myself crazy!) So about a month or two after my 22nd birthday, I began volunteering at a thrift store. Turns out that that was one of the best decisions I had ever made, because it makes me feel good and takes the edge off of my own neuroses. Apparently it is causing me to mature at a more rapid pace too, because I have gotten comments from several people (mom, brother and a friend) that they have noticed that I've "changed" - in a positive way - and my friend told me that I was a lot more mature than the last time I had spoken to her (which was a couple of months ago).

I'm in the place in my evolution of self where I have overcome my use of run-on sentences. It seems you are lagging behind..

That was a nightmare to read.
Taking the question seriously: Now that I'm living on my own and have a lot of spare time to read and study, my progression is a lot more rapid.

For most of my life, my intellectual evolution was slow. I was intelligent - my mind just wasn't progressing to much, In the past couple of years, however, my intelligence has increased exponentially, and my mind is evolving practically every day.