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17 Jun 2012, 11:57 am

I think, for the most part, they see me as stupid - borderline ret*d. Sometimes I wonder if I was given fake scores on my IQ tests as an experiment, and actually am ret*d.



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17 Jun 2012, 12:13 pm

I'm sure the world sees me as no more than a single blip in the population count. As for individuals who see me, I think how they see me depends on the individual. To most I probably seem quiet, reclusive or shy. To others argumentative and cranky, to others friendly or smart or kind. Depends on where they see me, how interested they are in looking deeper, and who they are.



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17 Jun 2012, 12:14 pm

They see me depressed, sense negativity from me.



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17 Jun 2012, 8:33 pm

They see me as depressed, negative, psychotic, borderline ret*d, some have denied the borderline mental retardation by saying I am "average... yeah for that," funny, smiling at the wrong times, a comedian, realist (actually that is how I see myself, as the best realist in the entire world), childlike, immature, stupid, idiot (actually technically during the very old days being called an idiot actually meant an IQ below 20), making everything up, and of course other things that I can't remember. That is how the world sees me. My IQ is 78-85 (I have taken many tests) but I mainly use the 82 since that is the one I have in front of me and are in between the other 2 anyways, so the people saying I am borderline ret*d are correct. Borderline Intellectual Functioning is an IQ between 70-85 so last time I checked, that is where my IQ tests are!



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17 Jun 2012, 8:43 pm

Shhhh. I'm hiding.



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18 Jun 2012, 10:46 am

FireBird, you've seen the posts in other threads about how IQ tests are crap, right? And I think your post just proved it. There's no way you're an "idiot". What is "Borderline Intellectual Functioning" supposed to mean, anyway, besides a term representing a number?


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18 Jun 2012, 11:30 am

A ret*d, stupid, odd, strange, weird. I've been called ret*d and stupid by people. Frankly I don't care because it just proves one thing. They have no empathy, no sympathy and is showing how stupid they are because they don't have a clue about us. I have learned to let it go in one ear and out the other.



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18 Jun 2012, 11:32 am

Some others I failed to mention: that I never try, am a loser and fail at life ect.


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18 Jun 2012, 11:39 am

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How do you think the world sees you?


the world is only concerned with itself (in human terms), and so the world does not see me at all .
that is good. i get to live outside peoples microcosmic consciousnesses and i go about my way without interference from any puzzled observers.

no one cares about me or knows i exist except for about 5 people, and they are all waiting for me to die so they can benefit.

i am happy that things are happening well for me, and the rest of reality i will consider later.



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18 Jun 2012, 11:44 am

Half the people who know me think I'm a twit or a weirdo because I tend to clam up without a script or scenario to follow in conversation and I go blank in crises. Of the other half, a few of them think I'm some kind of genius :scratch: , a few think I'm just a regular person and a couple even admire me for some kind of perceived integrity that I'm sure I don't really possess, but if they want to attribute it to me, that's okay.



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18 Jun 2012, 11:48 am

Dirtdigger wrote:
A ret*d, stupid, odd, strange, weird. I've been called ret*d and stupid by people.


They obviously haven't read your posts. You are definitely not stupid! You're very articulate with a keyboard under your fingers. I think odd, strange and weird are compliments!



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18 Jun 2012, 1:13 pm

Mindsigh wrote:
Dirtdigger wrote:
A ret*d, stupid, odd, strange, weird. I've been called ret*d and stupid by people.


They obviously haven't read your posts. You are definitely not stupid! You're very articulate with a keyboard under your fingers. I think odd, strange and weird are compliments!



If you look through the posts of Aspies in this topic that has to deal with the same thing I do, you will find others very articulate with a keyboard. I'm very impressed that there are so many Aspies and Autistics that are so articulate. I did take typing in school and dropped out because I started getting failing grades. But, I never gave up and got my first computer in 1982. So I've had a lot of practice. But, I do have mental issues regardless. I have worked very hard to try to educate myself the best I can after graduating from school. I really stunk in school except for art. I also excelled in spelling and made Bs and Cs in English. But I mostly made Ds and Fs.

The reason I was getting called stupid or ret*d is because of the way I was behaving. I do strange things at times too. I have been bullied and still picked on to this day because I come across different.



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18 Jun 2012, 1:20 pm

The world probably sees me as "An introverted weirdo who laughs at weird things."

Dirtdigger wrote:
A ret*d, stupid, odd, strange, weird. I've been called ret*d and stupid by people. Frankly I don't care because it just proves one thing. They have no empathy, no sympathy and is showing how stupid they are because they don't have a clue about us. I have learned to let it go in one ear and out the other.


How are you so good at not getting upset over those things? "ret*d" is probably the worst I have been called, luckily considering I could have been called worse where I grew up, but things like this always bother me.

I am always worrying about what others might think of me so I am always trying to be as normal as possible around others, but fail at it miserably every time. When I remember all of the crap I've put up with from people I went to school with in the past, I just get so angry and I begin to hate them all over again. If insults go in one ear and out the other and you don't get upset, then you've got skills I wish I had.



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18 Jun 2012, 1:30 pm

I have been stereotyped, such as the r-word and lazy and even have called Rain-Man.



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18 Jun 2012, 2:26 pm

Alfonso12345 wrote:
The world probably sees me as "An introverted weirdo who laughs at weird things."

Dirtdigger wrote:
A ret*d, stupid, odd, strange, weird. I've been called ret*d and stupid by people. Frankly I don't care because it just proves one thing. They have no empathy, no sympathy and is showing how stupid they are because they don't have a clue about us. I have learned to let it go in one ear and out the other.


How are you so good at not getting upset over those things? "ret*d" is probably the worst I have been called, luckily considering I could have been called worse where I grew up, but things like this always bother me.

I am always worrying about what others might think of me so I am always trying to be as normal as possible around others, but fail at it miserably every time. When I remember all of the crap I've put up with from people I went to school with in the past, I just get so angry and I begin to hate them all over again. If insults go in one ear and out the other and you don't get upset, then you've got skills I wish I had.




Maybe because you are 19 and haven't learned how not to let things like this bother you. Things like this use to bother me in a big way. But, I've had 65 years so far to put this kind of stuff out of my mind and not let it bother me. Life is just too short to let a bunch of unsympathetic fools try to ruin your life. Hopefully as you grow older this sort of thing will no longer bother you.

Don't be pressured by your peers into trying to be like the rest of the world. Be happy for who you are because you will never be happy if you bow down to the people that are trying to change you.



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18 Jun 2012, 3:46 pm

I think the world sees me as a nuisance. I'm always in somebody's way, I'm always talking when I should be quiet, I'm always overreacting over trivial things, I'm never positive in anything, and I'm so thick. That's what a nuisance is.


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