Apparently, I'm not intelligent.

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Um. Okay. Everyone is intelligent at some level. And it's usually shown by appearance how intelligent someone is. So just because you don't "appear" intelligent (short posts) doesn't mean you ARENT intelligent.
Of course there is nothing unintelligent about short posts. So don't let those people get to you, although I see that is now impossible because they already have.
You know, when Albert Einstein was a kid, his teachers thought that HE was unintelligent.

And u know, as I said how we are all intelligent on some level, unless you're like a vegetable or would vote Bush as president if he could run again, some are on a higher level than others. And the factors that determine that level (age, amount of education, etc) are always variable. So it doesn't mean you are not intelligent, especially just because people make fun of you or whatever the crap they do. They're being ignorant, and it's a natural human thing, so don't mind them.

I think it's probably considered bad netiquette to post forum posts that don't add information to the discussion. If you're just posting that you agree with somebody else, you're not adding any information. It's considered even worse if you post on a thread that is not on the front page, or on slow forums, hasn't been updated in over a month. Just posting to increase your post count, or to be "included" in a discussion, doesn't really get you any respect. The Internet's a tough neighborhood.

Short posts don't say anything about your intelligence. They might hint that you are either not trying to communicate in writing, or else are not too good at communicating in writing; but intelligence is too broad a topic for such a small thing to be any indicator.

I find this reading to be rather limited and rigid.
It tends to infer that knowledge and information is the grand pooh-bah of all. As I get older and wiser, I learn belatedly that this way of being and operating in myself as a younger aspie, was well and truly limited. May not be for some...but it was for me.

I note that many people here on WP do indeed use it this forum a place to begin with the experimentation of connecting for connecting's sake. And if that means they make short posts that add no information to the discussion...then good on them. I hope they try, and practice, and learn and do whatever they want to do, within the rules and guidelines.

I have also heard two autism specialists suggest WP as a forum where aspies can go and practice a bit of net chit-chat. Heaven forbid if they now cease this in an attempt to adhere to "netiquette."

This is a major problem for me, I find it impossible to express and form intelligent text, I tend to over think and it all becomes a jumble in my head.
Its always amazed me how people can write multiple paragraphs on how they feel about 1 thing.

I've also been labelled as being unintelligent due to this and my rubbish spelling.

My pet hate is the attitude you find in some places (not here) that "we discussed that subject four years ago, here's a link to the thread, there's no possible use talking about it any more" - as if different people couldn't benefit from having the same discussion, and as if they couldn't possibly come up with something new!

Hah, I've got you all beat!

People mention physics, I start babbling, confuse the hell out of them, then get told I must not understand physics, and should stop quoting Wikipedia.

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I had a guy state on a public forum, in his hypothetical example of a trip from here to Betelgeuse at a high enough fraction of c to experience 2 years or so of subjective time, that the reason for this subjective duration is because length contraction at that speed reduces the distance from here to Betelgeuse to a couple of light years.


I popped up and was like... uh, no it doesn't. You appear to observe the distance is shortened while you're in motion, but that is only valid in one frame of reference, while a richer explanation about motion through time and the rotation induced by motion through space is valid from all frames, making it more correct.


Now, this guy is in college for physics, he is good at math as well, but he specializes in quantum stuff. He's known for being "the math and science guy", so rather than accepting my suggestion that perhaps he had meant to imply otherwise... he says I just don't understand relativity, and that I'm saying length contraction doesn't happen, so I'm obviously just faking my knowledge by quoting Wikipedia. I should go and get a real education like the people they respect on the board when it comes to this subject.


I simply point out that what he said, and what Einstein's paper (which I linked, and cited for the boards) disagree, and that his statement violates the invariance of the spacetime interval.


Cue 3 pages of people whining and trying to irritate me, apparently forgetting that I've stated repeatedly, I don't care if they like me, I like me. I simply care about misinformation being passed off as fact.


I don't know what I'm talking about though, and incidentally when I made a topic to let them get their AQ scores out of curiousity, they accused me of being a false "unique special butterfly" self diagnosis type.


Little do they know it amuses me to subtly poke fun at them by tinkering with their brains for my own experimental interests.

"I like me?"

I don't like me...