Do you ever feel ret*d?

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Yes. Sometimes I can't work out how to do the simplest things. Like on Sunday i couldn't figure out how to open the battery compartment of my own camera. My husband had to do it. And then I couldn't close it and he had to do it

Yes.
I'm a complex thinker who doesn't work well with feelings or detail.
Thus I can smell a *S** a mile away because most of them, especially the one's who are very strongly S confuse me entirely and normally make me feel extremely stupid especially ESTJ/ESFJ's.

After awhile I just conclude that their puny little heads can't comprehend anything bigger than whats right in front of them however for the time being when they harp on me about something I CLEARLY missed because I was thinking five million steps ahead of them and they were just on step b I feel ret*d.

It does get troublesome when things are just "too simple" to comprehend.
Especially school, I have been told by multiple people that high school is "too simple" for me. Often I just cannot comprehend the repetitive tactics or how to explain my understanding when I've clearly demonstrated in three different ways how one could use this idea they are presenting to me.

yep I can be quite slow

When I'm around other people I feel ret*d sometimes.

Also, when I took a sewing class at school two years ago, I felt ret*d and I think everyone else thought I was too. The instructions for the patterns were mostly verbal and I had trouble understanding them. I failed the class.

I felt like that every time I was forced to actually take part in classes where you needed to learn just by listening and interacting with others, without any time to teach myself first.

In martial art class I often feel ret*d. Was doing this exercise block to the outside, punch on the inside. I know this but I'm still get it wrong. I'm not even bothering to do the move properly; just trying to get it the right way round is a pain.

It's not uncommon for me to be confused when learning something intellectually new,especially conceptual ideas like mathematics,where I see other people fully grasping the concept in a linear and orderly manner,like everyone else is speaking an alien language.And I just have no idea why I'm not "getting it".And then,after living with the mystery for some time,I will one day realize that I suddenly and completely "get it" in epiphany,like the answer was under my nose the entire time.Sometimes it takes days,sometimes years,but this happens often.In grade school I tested fairly evenly across the Stanford-Binet,with a very respectable IQ,but my academic life would indicate I was a slacker or a dolt.Aside from a bit of dyslexia,I've never been able to understand why/how I learn differently than others seem to.I tested "negative" for ADD,and there are no other obvious clinical explanations.I tend to blame some linguistic processing error,but who knows?Regardless,it's really spooked me away from pursuing intellectual work I think I'd otherwise find fulfilling.

Evertime I am forced into a group learning activty. I've been trying to work on this group learning skills deficit since the age five(kindergarten). I feel like I have progressed to the social IQ of a ten year old.

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Before I found out I had AS, sure.

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I have also been called ret*d by a few different people.