[geeks] RE: [rescue] OT: ADD - MOVING to geeks

[Jennifer Sharp]

YAY! Finally someone with a brain. I get so fucking tired of hearing
my mother-in-law tell me, "James is a Genius!" but in the next
sentence she puts him down by saying, "But he has absolutely no common
sense." My own parents said this about me. I think this is total
gooddamned bullfuckingshit. (sorry for the foul language but JEEZ does
it make me mad.) I finally looked my MIL right in the eye one day
after she said that and said to her, "Dianne, James does have common
sense. He just sees the world in a completely different way than you
or anyone else. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean
it doesn't make sense to the rest of us." She seemed a little
flabbergasted (no surprise sense noone has ever stood up to her
before) and shut up. I have never heard a word out of her about it
since. Nor have I heard that kind of crap about my 10 year old nephew
who also happens to be extremely intelligent.  I think that my MIL was
just jealous that her kid was smarter than she is (which doesn't take
much, my 19 week old fetus is smarter than her) and she was just
looking for some way to be smarter/better than him. It was the same
with my siblings and parents. They hated it because I was smarter and
better educated. As far as I am concerned, they can all go to hell.

Jennifer Sharp

"Do not taunt Happy Fun Pregnant Woman."  -- James Sharp
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Hebel <nimitz at owc.net>
To: geeks at sunhelp.org <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Date: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] RE: [rescue] OT: ADD - MOVING to geeks


>Geek wrote:
>> I am and find I am neither exceptionally bright, nor do I have any
>> special aptitude for computers, the arts or science. I don't know
why,
>> as I agree wholeheartedly that along with autism, ADD seems to be
found
>> in some exceptional people with high aptitudes in those areas, but
I
>> think that that is not the rule, as there are many I know who have
next
>> to no aptitude, and in fact have a very hard time learning
anything.
>
>Please forgive the follwing vulgarity:
>
>Bullshit.
>
>If you're bright enough to post here and not constantly get flamed -
>then you're bright enough to learn things.  Hell, you learned how to
>post simple text e-mail - and in lower-case no less.  You're far
better
>than most online users right there. ;-)
>
>I went through more years than I could count listening to people tell
me
>I was dumb.  I'd never amount to anything.
>
>It took me years to _fail_ to accept that answer.  It took me several
>independant intelligence tests to prove that to myself - IQ 153. (Not
>that that buys me a cup of coffee anywhere but you get the idea.)
>Had I listened to those people I would have stopped trying long ago.
>Even now I'm climbing out of the personal hole I made for myself
because
>of them.
>
>That's why I'm so vehimently responding to you about it.  I won't let
>anyone utter words to the effect "I'm not smart." in my presence
because
>short of major brain damage it's never true.
>
>I would put these thought to you:
>
>1) You have a hard time learning anything because:
>
>    a) You were never taught to learn properly.
>    b) You have a problem that you have overlooked over the years.
>    c) You haven't found anything interesting enough to you to learn.
>    d) You're attempting to learn things for other people, not
yourself.
>
>2) You have no special aptitude for anything because you haven't
found
>something "special" to you.
>
>3) You _are_ smarter than most people - you just don't know it yet.
>
>Don't put yourself down or you'll end up stuck there.
>
>[/minor_rant]
>
>Mike Hebel
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