Stupider: I am losing my intelligence...

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I agree with this. Omar knows what he's talking about. All these shows are identical whether it's Canada, America, Britain or Cambodia.

Does anybody have a different opinion or anything to add to an existing theory or suggestion?

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By the way, if you accidentally say something really, really.......

Hmm.. Well, the brain doesn't mature 'til your early twenties... maybe that's part of it.

This sounds logical:



DJ, first off, I do not believe that you are becoming more stupid, but, hypothetically speaking, IF you were to become more stupid, what's the worst that could happen?

I'm not being facetious. Reasonably high intelligence seems to be a large part of your identity. What else about yourself do you value and cherish - qualities or abilities that have nothing to do with "book smarts"?

Remember that the teen years are a time of physical, mental and emotional flux - for everyone. Hormones raging, body growing and changing. And they won't last forever.

And, really, it seems to be that dumber people are happier anyway. They just don't know how bad things are sometimes. . . .

yes. i think there IS a chance you are getting stupider. (and yeah, it was funny you said stupider, i appreciated it.)

when i was a kid, things were easy, i was that scary-smart that freaks out the adults, scored high on IQ tests, school was easy, blah blah... the first time i had a passing worry that i was not a smart as i used to be was prob still in elementary school, but i didn't start to really notice and have problems until i was about 18 or so.

the same stuff you are mentioning. reading was suddenly HARDER. infomation was not sticking in my brain like it used to, i couldn't GRASP concepts as quickly. unfortunately, i am 29 and this has not reversed, i still feel a slow slide down toward the bottom of the stupid barrel...

so here is my personal theory- yes, perhaps some of the concentration stuff could be explained by anxiety/stress like other people in this post have suggested- but i actually think it has more to do with empathy and self-awareness...

my stupidity seems to be correlated to my attempts to understand other people, look at their emotions, put myself in their shoes. the more effort i put into "playing human," and the more i realized my differences were not all good ones, the harder traditional learning became. and once i thought these thoughts, i couldn't unthink them, so there was no going back. maybe it pushed me past critical mass, just too many possibilites to consider at once, and i forgot how to get back into that zone of absolute attention to a single thing- impaired my singlemindedness by trying to connect to humanity. i don't know... i feel silly trying to explain it because i realize that my explainations sound, well... stupid.