Do people think you're stupid?

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I never said there's anything wrong with ambition, so I don't have to address that.



I have to wonder what else you're assuming to unnecessarily restrict the meaning of my words to particular situations, because I see the attitude I described everywhere: crushing someone publicly so others who might mess with you think twice.

I wouldn't call my current pseudo-job "the real world", but it remains to be seen how this is relevant to the previous discussion beyond an easy ad hominem.



Maybe if you can afford the lawsuit.

Well, let's see.
hmmmm, petty 'ambitions' are used to not only describe, but assign motive. So, yeah, that is part of it and you should address it. Or it's just another of the circular arguing.

I am not restricting your words. I am using your words as they were written. And, if you see that attitude everywhere, I would have to say that if you're the only common denominator, then you would think about that.

And, that right there is the reason that I can't really take this seriously. NOBODY wants to engender a lawsuit. Especially if they can be found at fault.

Is the world peaches, cream and unicorns? Absolutely not.

Is the world nothing but people looking to demonize you specifically or in general? I doubt it.

Yep....Got's names mixed up. Was pointed out in a private message. Spiderpig did not mention ambition.

So, there ya's go.

Would have preferred a simple mistake like that pointed out to me publicly because I will always try to own up to my mistakes just as publicly. It may not be easy to be wrong, but, it's also the right thing to do.

I used to like writing, so, whenever we had to write an essay, i used to write 3 or 4 of them, with different ideas and different styles. I was keeping one for myself and giving the other essays to some classmates out of inspiration (exchanging against other things I did not like to do).

The others were congratulated for “their” essays (so mines). I was very often told “this is not from you, your parents helped,…”. Probably because I looked less mature or more stupid than I am.

Also, when you are clever, you ask very basic questions which can look stupid to someone less clever (who can sometimes be the teacher). I am not an Einstein but like he would ask “Why is this apple falling?”. I was not asking to that point “stupid” questions (because I am not so clever). I was asking fundamental questions which made them judge me "stupid".

There was this one guy in high school that was calling me a ret*d, it was hilarious when I scored 20 points higher than him on a Social Studies test.

To answer your question, there is nothing wrong with ambition itself. It is more the way it is achieved.

There are several ways to achieve it, (which do not exclude each other):
- 1 - constructive actions and achievements based on your work
- 2 - destructive actions which consist in destroying the work of the people, the reputation of people, the people (in extreme cases of war) who are in a position to achieve better than yourself.

The option - 2 - being quite generally used in competitive society (better for you to know it), i choose to show myself stupid and not dangerous for their ambitions, so that i do not have to suffer their destructive actions.

I said "little" ambitions because i can't have respect for destruction.

Well done, just let them say and work discreetly on your objectives.

They probably think I'm stupid or slow based on what they see on the outside..

Unfortunately, we're all programmed this way to some extent but they later find out that I'm like 3x smarter than them with math and reading comprehensions.. This is how it was in school, but WTH, it's school and all students like to talk crap about one another and bully people..

I don't get this, but I get the exact opposite. My Classmates think, for Example, when I was looking up a word in the dictionary, I was reading the dictonary, cover to cover. Not just any dictionary, but a 5000 page one.

My clasmates thought I was mentally retorted when I was a kid. I don't have any of the stereotyped Aspie strengths, skills or high intelligence.