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Michhsta
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05 Jul 2010, 7:08 am

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Ah yes, I am quite enviable. My almost superhuman abilities, my handsome good looks, my quick wit ...

It's a burden being this outstanding, but I carry it well.

Love it.

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05 Jul 2010, 9:18 am

I feel a little envious of other WP members, because I only have an IQ of 105. I also see these lengthy posts, that I could never measure up to, or even read, because I don't have the attention span, or the brains.

I have a strong personality and a lot of neat quirks to make up, for it, though, so it's not all that bad.

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05 Jul 2010, 9:19 am

CockneyRebel wrote:

IQ means nothing, and mine is 104, so you beat me anyway

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05 Jul 2010, 11:17 am

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my childhood psychiatrist said that i was emotionally ret*d, and that i had only the most basic of emotions.
some of the many emotions that i have little or no capacity for are -
"pride" and it's opposite: "shame", "envy" and it's opposite: "admiration", "lonliness" and it's opposite "togetherness" etc.
i do not feel embarrassment or humiliation and i do not feel "dramatic" (a sense of justification in amplified social displays of attitude)

Sometime I wish I lacked pride and shame. That would make it a lot easier for me to deal with my own insignificance. I can only feel truly happy when I'm doing something that I've coninced myself is "helping others" "defending others". I suppose that if some people here like my posts that means me being a member here is helping others smile or something. Lacking envy would be nice too. Lacking loneliness would help me to deal with the fact that I am so alone in this world.

I wish I could be satisfied with toys and comfort but I feel I must find a way to make the world better. I want to bring joy to others so I can be part of the solution to the suffering in this world. If only I had more motivation and a good idea...

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05 Jul 2010, 11:48 am

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I'm definitely envious of the members here. So many seem to have much more going on in their lives that I do in mine. I also sometimes feel like everybody else on here is such good friends and I'm just intruding.

^Ditto.

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05 Jul 2010, 12:24 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

HEY

you play the traps, you have musical talent, so I envy YOU :!:

if you read some of these lengthly hifalutin' wordy posts, you'd have less time to devote to honing your musical talent.
keep on drummin'

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05 Jul 2010, 12:32 pm

when i was younger and dumber, i burned with envy for just about everybody i saw. i saw everybody as being better-looking, more routinely sexually experienced, smarter, luckier, richer, more socially connected and apt, etc. it wasn't until i got into my 40s before i realized that there was a whole world of people i myself had been guilty up to that time of ignoring because only the betters mattered to me. now that envy has been replaced by resignation that my life is what i agreed-to before i was born, and that it could always be much worse. as Moog put it, "the worst people have the best [astrological birth] charts," so the rest of us with the various kinds of existential deficit, are really the best people because we tend to understand more readily, the earthly facts of suffering and redemption. it is all too easy to fall into the trap of only looking up worshipingly at the golden heights without giving a thought to the abyss of abjectivity below each of us. i hope that made sense to somebody out there.

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05 Jul 2010, 1:12 pm

b9 wrote:

everything has it's place and i am in my place no matter whether there are better or lesser people than me.

I agree. There will always be someone who is smarter, better looking, more talented etc. than we ourselves are. And there will always be someone who is less smart, less, attractive, less talented etc. There's no point in making those comparisons, or feeling bad because someone else has an ability we don't. It's even worse to feel superior because someone else is not as good at something as we are (and I'm much guiltier of the latter than the former).

auntblabby wrote:

That was lovely.

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05 Jul 2010, 1:12 pm

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CockneyRebel wrote:

I envy your ability to be succinct and to the point

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05 Jul 2010, 1:32 pm

I do envy people here who were able to go to college and get a degree and work in that career. I envy people here who don't have my learning difficulties so they have less roadblocks and they will make more money than me and be more independent. I envy people here who are stay at home moms because their husbands make enough to support them and their kids and pay all the bills. I envy people here who have useful special interests or obsessions they were able to make a career out of it.

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05 Jul 2010, 5:02 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

Your IQ is higher than mine, so dont worry.

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05 Jul 2010, 6:57 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I have 142 IQ but if you notice I usually avoid topics with any more than 8 lines per paragraph and 5 paragraphs though even that is daunting. Only way I could begin to read anything that dense would be if it was about cars. Having a high IQ ain't all it's cracked up to be, especially when you know less intelligent people who were in AP classes, IB programs, got full scholarships, etc. in high school and you are struggling to do fairly basic algebra.

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05 Jul 2010, 8:47 pm

I have to say that I sometimes feel a tweek of envy when higher functioning aspies talk about stuff that blows my mind. I grew up in a very intelegent, but not always smart family. Most of the members of my family have an IQ near or above the genius range...and I score about upper average....which I guess is a leap for me since I scored in the moderately ret*d range as a child due to severe PDD. My spelling embarasses me, but I am also hearing impaired, so I spell things the way they sound to me.
It amazes me how smart some people are here...sometimes I feel dwarfed.

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05 Jul 2010, 9:10 pm

I'm not envious of the people here - but I want to say one thing.

Things aren't always as they seem.

You may envy someone for not going through complete hell in high school, but what about someone who went to primary school terrified every day?

I know people have been envious of me from here as i've gotten consistent nasty pms about it, but really they do not know what has happened in my life. Apparently I have "had it easy" and it couldn't be further from the truth. Hearing that from people makes me want to punch them in the face for being so wrong.

I hate people who pre-judge others.

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05 Jul 2010, 10:00 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Ah yes, I am quite enviable. My almost superhuman abilities, my handsome good looks, my quick wit ...

It's a burden being this outstanding, but I carry it well.

you sure do my good sir.

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05 Jul 2010, 10:20 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

Ah yes, I am quite enviable. My almost superhuman abilities, my handsome good looks, my quick wit ...

It's a burden being this outstanding, but I carry it well.

Not to mention a snappy hat!

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