beautifulspam wrote:
What is common sense? How is it different from other forms of intelligence?
What makes people who are duds academically vastly more capable than we are at following directions and keeping track of their responsibilities at work and at home?
1. if you have to ask what it is, you probably lack it
2. i have been told that i lack it, and choose to take the observation as a compliment, because
3. based on what i have observed, when people say i have no "common sense," they seem to mean that i fail to grasp the most OBVIOUS meaning in things/conversations.
and instead, they think i am "stupid" because i "overthink" things. when actually i do not, it is just that if someone says "Hi." i will be just as likely to look upwards or look around for the druggie, because even though "common sense" dictates that i should see that "Hi" is always going to just be a greeting i should return, my brain still insists that the NEXT "Hi" might mean something different.
so this tendency is regarded as intelligence if i am problem solving or working on a creative project, but it limits my ability to follow directions and do "simple" tasks, because i am usually unsure what people WANT and/or MEAN, because my priorities are so naturally different.
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