KagamineLen wrote:
I made a post in a geek group on Facebook that I recently decided to separate myself from.
I passed a Mensa test a few days ago. I posted about that, and I also posted about how video gaming was not nearly as rewarding to me as it used to be, and about how I felt like I needed to find a healthier ball for my brain to bounce.
That rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
Several people told me that my post was little more than begging strangers to give my ego a handjob.
Others told me that I was arrogance incarnate, flaunting my superiority over the mere plebeians.
Still others used the r-word against me, stating that anybody can make up a story on Facebook, and that if I truly had passed a Mensa test, I would be smart enough to not want to share about it with people I used to think of as decent acquaintances.
None of what they were saying is connected to the realities of my intentions behind that post whatsoever.
Still, it stings a lot more than it should. Probably because it is not their voices I am hearing. Probably because it is the voices of my blood family that I am hearing through them.
I get cut down far too easily for my own good.
As I am sure your aware neurotypical people often equate what your saying into something else. Trying to talk about yourself might mean to some people that your using Double speak and trying to talk down to people. As neurotypical people often use double speak
20 Jun 2016, 12:45 pm
