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MidlifeAspie
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07 Jan 2011, 5:34 pm

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I am intellectually gifted, and if I have learned anything in my adolescence it is this: Telling everybody about it is NOT a way to become accepted in society. NT, AS or other.

It ranks up there right next to telling people that their "smartness" doesn't make them any better than you.
Specifically since this post wasn't about telling about smartness, but to give a reference to why AS could not be diagnosed. Your inability to focus on the main point does not help in keeping the posts on track.


That wasn't directed at you, so you can put your hackles down :)

Sorry if I seemed to harsh. I do tend to not know that.


Forgiven, and welcome to WP :D



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07 Jan 2011, 6:33 pm

MidlifeAspie wrote:
evilduck wrote:
MidlifeAspie wrote:
evilduck wrote:
MidlifeAspie wrote:
I am intellectually gifted, and if I have learned anything in my adolescence it is this: Telling everybody about it is NOT a way to become accepted in society. NT, AS or other.

It ranks up there right next to telling people that their "smartness" doesn't make them any better than you.
Specifically since this post wasn't about telling about smartness, but to give a reference to why AS could not be diagnosed. Your inability to focus on the main point does not help in keeping the posts on track.


That wasn't directed at you, so you can put your hackles down :)

Sorry if I seemed to harsh. I do tend to not know that.


Forgiven, and welcome to WP :D

Thanks. And I will most likely do it again, if I know myself at all.



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07 Jan 2011, 6:36 pm

evilduck wrote:
MidlifeAspie wrote:
evilduck wrote:
MidlifeAspie wrote:
evilduck wrote:
MidlifeAspie wrote:
I am intellectually gifted, and if I have learned anything in my adolescence it is this: Telling everybody about it is NOT a way to become accepted in society. NT, AS or other.

It ranks up there right next to telling people that their "smartness" doesn't make them any better than you.
Specifically since this post wasn't about telling about smartness, but to give a reference to why AS could not be diagnosed. Your inability to focus on the main point does not help in keeping the posts on track.


That wasn't directed at you, so you can put your hackles down :)

Sorry if I seemed to harsh. I do tend to not know that.


Forgiven, and welcome to WP :D

Thanks. And I will most likely do it again, if I know myself at all.


Through experience comes growth.



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07 Jan 2011, 7:13 pm

MidlifeAspie wrote:

Through experience comes growth.


That would explain the wart on my nose 8O


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09 Jan 2011, 9:33 am

Over the summer, I was extremely bored:

My paintbrushes had been stolen and I hadn't the money to replace them, so I couldn't paint.
The internet was down.
The sound of my out of tune piano prevented me from wanting to play.
I was having car issues and was jobless, so driving to a library or bookstore was out of the question.

So I walked around the house listlessly one day, stimming all over the place. And my mother finally told me, "Do you know why you're so bored??" and I responded, "No. Please tell me. Please." And she said, "It's because you're too smart. You always need something to occupy yourself."

Needless to say, that was the first time that my mother had ever called me intelligent.

Er, to answer your question...er...what was your question...?



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09 Jan 2011, 9:41 am

No I am not smart at all..... If I were I would have joined the French Foreign Legion, and gone on some cool adventures, by now, instead of pissing around in China, while my dad takes his time getting me a Visa, while my psychotic NT (and they call US crazy) aunt is trying to kill me with a knife (she tried, but my dad got knicked by it, as he tried to wrestle her down. (Geeee Dad do you think this warrents oh I don't know a trip to the Loony bin for her. What will it take? Her beating or smothering your idiot daughter, my half sister, in a paranoid psychosis fit, as she floats down the Pedong Shanghai river?!?!?!? ).

At least I would have died honourable and gone to Valhalla instead of dying like a nobody...... I could be a hero. I loved how she just grabs my glasses from my face infront of the CHINESE commie police, and they just went meh, as she tore then in half. Chinese people irritate me! always with the honking horns, always with the ugly spitting, always with the noisy yelling...