Quantum wrote:
Sorry I forgot to be more specific in my question. What I meant was, were you a late bloomer intellectually speaking? For example, performing poorly in school, but getting a sudden neurological twist that makes you very well capable of mastering what you had difficulties in. That is my case. Another example is when you are suddenly able to learn quicker than before and at the same time experiencing a sudden improved memory, all of this happened less than a year in my brain which I think is odd in a negative way.
Yes and no. To start with I was the other way around. I've been top of the class in primary school and bottom of the class in high school. In later high school I got a bit better and actually started passing classes. What changed? Did I get smarter? No, it was mostly that I got more organized. Either that, or that I used the extra year I gained by skipping year 9 to do year 12 part time over two years.
I work so much more efficiently doing half days but that's not always practical.
As for friends in School I had less of them when I was the only one in my group who decided to stay on 'till year 12 and the rest of them dropped out (the upside was I got to be in less rowdy class rooms because now that it was voluntary that got rid of the students who didn't really want to be there).
grbiker wrote:
Didn't date until I was 22.
Not to worry, you beat me by three years
grbiker wrote:
I would say I was socially less inept in my mid to late 20's, but that might have been because of alcohol and marijuana, which made me much more lively in social situations. I don't use those anymore, so I have reverted back to being quiet and shy for the most part.
So my social problems are caused by a lack of drugs?
StarTrekker wrote:
watching cartoons when all my classmates started getting interested in the opposite sex, dating, and social hierarchies that I couldn't begin to understand.
Been there.
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