I feel different from most WP members

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I was writing for the teacher. Of course, they paid lip service to "consider your audience", and what not, but the reality is in school, the audience is the teacher, and try as they might, they can't really escape their biases. Most teachers are either very smart, or believe that they're very smart, and reward anything that sounds intelligent, whether it actually is or not. Some teachers aren't particularly subtle about it either. Ever heard phrases like "dollar words" and "showing not telling". To me, that came to mean "big words" and "dividing the information into several sentences rather than condensing it to one". Once I figured this out, my last 2 years of HS and first 2 years of college I got great marks on all my papers. My last couple years of college I did find some professors that actually wanted less wordiness and I tried, with only limited success, to cut it down some. Once you practice something a certain amount, it gets to be hard to break those habits.

I don't think I'd enjoy a career as a writer because there are too many deadlines and people trying to rush the process, and that's something I don't react well to. Environment is everything for me. I can be very productive as long as the environment is positive and supportive. Unfortunately, America's corporate culture is generally too competitive and driven for me to thrive in. I have to be very careful what kinds of situations I get into job-wise.

I can't think of anything to say that hasn't already been said, so: yeah, what everybody else said.

There are a lot of different kinds of people here, and all comes together to make a certain feeling of character. If you were not a part of it it would be like the sky being a different color or something. (if you went, it might mess with a lot of people's resistance to change -- but, of course, you said your aren't).

Oh, and my IQ is 110. That's probably supposed to mean that I can follow all the threads here, but I can't. There are also a lot of times I can't figure out how to make a response.

And your Kinks and 60's posts have never bothered me at all.

I'm going to celebrate my differences on WP, today.

Watch out everybody!

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I'm not a genius either miss. rebel. so lets be in a club, listen to good music and eat snacks.

With ketchup and cut mustard!

Just another non-genius non-fitting in person saying hi.

Hey Cockney Rebel-

I love your posts about the Kinks! I find it very endearing when someone is so involved in their special interest. It´s because I know how wonderful a feeling it is to be absorbed in an interest, and that´s why I admire that in other people.

Anyway, I´m also an "artsy" type. I used to be a ballet dancer, now I´m a dance teacher and choreographer.

And I have absolutely no idea what my IQ is!! !! I don´t even care to know, ha ha

A lot of the people here have normal IQ's but have high verbal IQ's they only sound smart. Like me I come off more intelligent than I really am. At least thats what people have told me.