One thing that always bugged me, and still does, is that we genii are treated as Weirdos who must be Outcast - or else people act as if being a genius makes you EXCELLENT AT EVERYTHING. I suck at math, but I have a factory-installed spelling and grammar checker that corrects me every time I catch myself making a mistake. And I have a lot of random information in my brain, and I'm good at making it useful. My husband has been trying to fix a spackled seam in the sheetrock ceiling in the dining room (which was damaged by a water leak). The spackle isn't drying properly, because he's putting one wet layer on over another. So I told him to turn on the air conditioner in the room to lower the humidity, and the spackle is now beginning to dry the way it's supposed to.
I always wondered why everybody wasn't admiring my intelligence and skills, and knowledge, because I'm so obviously superior to the other hairless apes, and they should look up to me with respect. Instead I got (and still do get) told I was "too weird" for anybody to like me, and I should try to hide my superior intelligence and suppress my weird behavior and "try to fit in". I can no more "fit in" than I can reach escape velocity by wiggling my ears.
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Date: 2021-07-17 04:42 am (UTC)I always wondered why everybody wasn't admiring my intelligence and skills, and knowledge, because I'm so obviously superior to the other hairless apes, and they should look up to me with respect. Instead I got (and still do get) told I was "too weird" for anybody to like me, and I should try to hide my superior intelligence and suppress my weird behavior and "try to fit in". I can no more "fit in" than I can reach escape velocity by wiggling my ears.