ButtholeSpiders

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My grandfather privately had major depressive disorder and anxiety, and was a psychiatrist. So valid point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Especially since gifted, is based on biased metrics that personally feel like they ignore a lot of other factors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Which is the curse, built in risk aversion. 🥴

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I avoided it by coasting, they did testing in kindergarten and I realized fast I didn’t want the attention. Especially being treated like a trophy by my dad.

Do I regret coasting now, of course. Do it for your self-confidence, later in life you’ll be happier you did.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I say it regularly, I would prefer to be ignorant… At least then I wouldn’t be hyper aware our species stinks.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The later half is so true, early on when you’re a statistical anomaly you can get special treatment, but once you become a small problem or the skill backfires they blow up as if it couldn’t have been seen coming. They expect 100% efficiency like you’re a battery to sap and don’t care how it affects you mentally.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go with what makes you happiest, most often more effort can lead to less rewards. Ultimately you have to find your comfort zone.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed 100%, being a specialist in something always has led to someone taking a pot shot at your deficiencies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I get what you mean… though, I feel like an IQ test is a biased test, I took one as a teenager and scored high. Which was a morale boost at the time, but a few months later I had medical problems and ended up having a stroke and had to basically start all over with speech, motor and memory.

Sure, I survived. But I went through every therapy, started back up and realized I wasn’t close to what I was before. Which was crushing, sure I knew it wouldn’t be the same and I’m still above average, but the latent memories of my capabilities before constantly haunt me.

I didn’t mean to depress anyone, just enjoy the blue zone if at all possible. I constantly try remembering, it can get worse. /hug

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So if he claimed it was 2.5 billion, but is inflated by 2.2 billion, his net worth is more like 300 million?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That will eventually be their go to for dealing with others, making it a norm will make the public question when aren’t officials projecting?

They want to numb the public to the point we stop paying attention, the sad thing is for a large part of the population, it works. Like parenthood, there needs to be repercussions, otherwise why not lie?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It also proves that people who don’t understand AI, think you can simply AI everything equals success. This idea will be a huge money pit.

But, that’s exactly what the company that gets the contract is praying for.

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