Ever been rejected/mocked/scolded for being too advanced?

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I was remembering these days how I alienated some friends because I suggested going for breakfast together. This was a year or two before the American custom of meeting for breakfast arrived in this country. I just happened to read better English than Hebrew, so I had read about meeting for breakfast in the USA and I just liked the idea and suggested it.

I was once mocked no end and people got angry at me for "lying" when I said I had read that soon smoking would be banned from airplanes and airports, and therefore I didn't want to fly to the USA for my honeymoon because both my ex and I were heavy smokers and wouldn't endure the 13 hour flight.

Yes, when I told my boss I had been diagnosed with ADD, he put on a superior smirk and said he had studied ADD and that people with "true" ADD couldn't read.

It's never happened to me.

Tim, are u ok? You've been very quiet lately...

I guess to feel "mocked" at being "advanced", one would have to perceive themselves as being "advanced". Quite honestly, I don't invest in my own ego quite so gratuitously.

To be fair, I don't think that's what Greentea meant by advanced. I think she simply meant up on the latest info.

I pissed a mother off when I said dislike of being held is one of the first signs of autism. She told me I was crazy and I worry over a baby sneezing.

WritersBlock- I didn't mean it to come off like that-I'm just sometimes overly formal when I write. Sorry.

Spokane_Girl- She does have a point I think, though. A single symptom can indicate more than one thing. For instance, you see a person sneeze. Are they allergic, do they have a cold or did something just fly up their nose?

The story of my childhood. Mocked and taunted by my age-peers because I had an advanced vocabulary, read a lot and knew a lot more than my age-peers. Also, I was way smarter than they were. In addition to mockery, attempted humiliation and bullying there was also physical conflict. So I had to learn to fight "dirty" early and fast which I did. After spraining wrists and breaking a few arms, the bastards stopped beating up on me. I was lucky and I never killed anyone in a fight. I came close a few times, but was saved by intervention.

ruveyn

All the time. I see the world as it might be, or as it will be, not as it is today.

One time at an engineer conference I suggested that low earth orbiting satellites (LEOs) will eventually replace all mobile terrestrial communications: cell phones, wireless internet, TV whatever. Everything will eventually be TCP/IP comms between the LEOs, and LEOs and ground. It makes sense.

They laughed at me.