I feel different from most WP members

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Why do people compare themselves to each other so much? Perhaps you know more about the Kinks/Mick Avory than anyone else here, CockneyRebel. Certainly, you have more information on them than I

I have always felt different than lot of people here so you're not alone. I felt I wasn't aspie enough and there came other times where I felt I was too aspie I was so stupid because other aspies knew about it and I didn't. But I take it as maybe they knew because they are older so they have had more experience in life than I have so perhaps they have already been there. So take it as at least I got to learn it at a younger age. The thank you card for example or "dump."

I also feel dull and not brilliant. I used to feel like a low functioning aspie because I was seeing other aspies here with professions and jobs in that area while me I struggled in school and needed extra help so college be impossible for me but then I started to notice there were others here with no job and you were an example of not having a profession or doing any career and succeeding in your special interests as your career.

I enjoy your postings and respect you as an individual. There is no "typical" individual here. We all have strengths and weaknesses.

And as for intelligence: I am someone who society defines as having very high intelligence. That gets me pretty much nothing. Any abilities that I have are completely wasted, because of my inability to handle human interactions. Given a choice, I would gladly trade high intelligence for a normal social life.

I still love reading your posts, CockneyRebel. If you stopped posting about the Kinks and Mick Avory, I think Wrong Planet would no longer be the same Wrong Planet.

You go right ahead and tell us about the Kinks and Mick Avory!
It just wouldn't be the same here without you, and you've cheered me up more times than I can say.

CR, we're all different - and your difference is a really sweet one which I especially enjoy.

I think one or two sentences are more easier and quicker to read then long paragraphs. I don't talk that much so thats another reason. CockneyRebel is not alone when it comes to this. BTW, what does trolling on Wrong Planet mean? Just to make sure that I don't do it myself.

Trolling is basically being a complete d!ckhead on-line in a forum or newsgroup, usually by purposefully trying to antagonize other people and/or posting deliberately incorrect information to try and stir up some trouble.

I'd rather read short posts. My attention drifts too quickly.

I attribute my own verbosity to a public school system that taught me to write a two page essay to convey information which only required a few meager sentences. The usage of obscure and multisyllabic words was graded highly while the use of plain language was discouraged. Great value was placed upon the form and structure of the communication rather than the relevance and worth of the information therein contained. Such virtues as conciseness and clarity were quite unheard of. As a result, I developed a refined talent for stating as little information as humanly possible in as great a number of words as humanly possible. I consider myself to be quite an adept wordsmith, yet I do not think it a reflection of greater intellect, but rather an indication of the particular techniques I have practiced.

In other words, the public school system taught me to be wordy whether it matters or not. Further, I'm not really any smarter than you, but I can sound like I am if I want to.

Same here. I also put a lot of pressure on myself to appear as mature and intelligent as possible. I feel that the mockery and rejections I have experienced from my peers in the past was mainly due to me appearing stupid, which may not be true, but the other reasons were beyond my ability to understand, so I'm still often stuck with that automatic thought.

I remember saying this before, but I do appreciate your posts here, too. I've noticed that you sometimes have a different take on things compared to other members, and I see that as an asset, not a liability. There is no connection whatsoever between narrow interests and intelligence level. IQ tests are flawed, anyway. Intelligence is such a complex thing that it cannot be represented by one single number. Besides, overall IQ is redundant when it comes to people with large IQ discrepancies, because one can, for example, be highly gifted verbally and get an extremely high verbal IQ score, but have a mediocre score on the performance IQ component.

Sorry if I use big words... I read a lot of scholarly work, so my mind absorbs the big words and incorporates them into my linguistic representation of my thoughts.

Ok. Thanks for the info.

You sound different than most here, I think, but not really in a bad way.

I feel different too. I don't think it has much to do with IQ though, even if your posted IQ range is where I'm at.

I ignore or skim a lot of posts. I think it's a matter of focus. It's difficult to read a bunch of posts on different subjects and stay focused because the focus is constantly jumping around and people all type differently. I much prefer books.

I enjoy reading your posts, and, like others have said, WP wouldn't be the same without you (not that you're leaving, of course). Also, given that your OP had paragraphs and contained the word terminology, I don't think you have much to worry about.

I find your interest in the Kinks endearing, and makes you who you are.

At least people respond to our posts, I have made posts and no one bothers to reply . Makes me feel really different and like I don't fit in, too.

I think you are just depressed!! !!

Thank you for all the responses. I don't feel so different, anymore. I guess that I got into the habit of comparing myself to the rest of the people on WP. I shouldn't be comparing myself to anybody.

I'm a registered YouTube member and I'd love to post a video of me drumming at the coffee house that was at my clubhouse. One of the staff members filmed the whole thing on his iPhone and he's in the proccess of making DVDs for all the members who have performed and attended. I'll post a video, as soon as I get the DVD. Thank you to all of you for responding.

Everyday for me on WP is like opposite day for me, yet I have similarities too. But like you I sometimes don't think I'm that smart. I don't really care. I mean I know some things that other people don't. The more musical/artistic type of people have a different type of intelligence than the more academic type of people. You've also got to keep in mind we all come from different backgrounds. Some people with extremely long posts with difficult words to understand probably have a job where that type of knowledge is needed, rather than the twenty something that works in a record shop.

I like being argumentative too but in a constructive sort of way so you can't tell.
So sometimes I enjoy not relating to people. And even when I do relate I still won't agree.