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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If we cut all the "Iam very smort"- humblebrags out, what we're left with is kind of a shit take in my oppinion. You say you were gifted, but not gifted enough to game the system, nor smart enough to realize that in order to succeed academically, the skills you should have been honing were infact memorization and communication skills?

You kind of sound like you've got an inflated ego. You might think society screwed you over and now you're a wageslave, but more than likely you landed exactly where you belong. I've listened to enough upper-middle-management powerlarping to know that 2/3 of cushy office job management shares your delusion.

I'm not saying that anything about the premise is wrong, I have intimate experience with the downsides of being differently-abled compared to your peers. Turned into a youth delinquent for a payday earlier than most people have their first sip of beer etc. but still got an academic education, as well as a vocation (nurse), because I realized quite soon that I just can't take people with this kind of mindset that you clearly have, where you belittle people who have different skills and aptitudes than yourself.

I saw more than enough of the corpo mindset that come with a suite, designer briefcase and S- class Merc to know to steer fucking clear of that life.