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Apologies for the one word comment. I was barely awake and this hit hard.
I wouldn't have called myself gifted but they definitely thought I was retarded. I was bullied very badly throughout my academic career. So I would just walking in the front and leave out the back. They gave me an IQ test to MAKE sure I was mentally handicapped and found out that I was above average intelligence scoring 128. Not that much but enough for them to call me smart. The bullying never stopped and I dropped out in grade 10.
Can confirm. Currently transitioning from the former to the latter 🤓
I wish I was a doctor...
It's just stereotypically BS
Good news, though, is that this disjoint between your capability and your self-perception of your own potential and your dissatisfaction with the life that you are leading will eventually resolve itself somewhere in your mid-40s.
The next 20 years of your life after that have a very good opportunity to get substantially better.
If you are in your 30s and going through it right now, like myself, then just know there are brighter days like a decade away, stay the course and keep doing the work.
I want to believe lol
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It’s a joke - and academic achievement doesn’t correlate with mental health - that’s a stereotype we would benefit from losing
It’s actually worse: academia has a huge mental health problem across the board
Maybe (like everywhere?) but that’s not the point I was trying to make. There is a stereotype that autism and generally being neurodivergent is somehow compensated for by academic talent - it’s not fair to make this assumption
"Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems."
Well yes, but for me it is to do with getting a nasty chronic illness that leaves me bedridden and unable to work.
1000% . Literally have 8 cars 6 tape machines 5 vcrs 5 pcs and work on all of them all the time.
I don't think the two categories are disjoint; the doctors also do everything in category one.