I'm soooooo insecure about my intelligence

When other girls look in the mirror and agonise over the size of their hips or the shape of their eyebrows, I look at my test results and agonise over how useless my brain is. I hate my brain. I want to throw it into a bin of petrol and set it ablaze in the middle of the desert and film a video of it in slow motion but of course I'd be dead, so I couldn't do that. I pity my body parts which have to be overruled by such an underperforming brain. It comes with a wonderful ability- the ability to study all I want and still invariably get a poor grade. Not to mention, I'm directionally challenged and utterly face blind. I'm absolutely terrible with anything involving numbers (probably dyscalculic) and a very slow learner. I have absolutely zero luck with time management, I've tried all sorts of planners and apps but I've realised that the problem is, it takes me all day to do one thing. I like reading but suck at reading comprehension and If I write anything, I always have to explain myself because it's incoherent and I don't have the innate ability to reason logically (not to mention a weak grasp of grammar, especially in other languages).I've been trying but it's not natural to me at all. I've gotten in trouble for misinterpreting rules and articulating myself poorly and thus offending people. I've had to learn social cues the hard way. People have to explain to me several times for me to get something so I always feel like a burden and my self confidence lies 6 feet under bedrock. Asinine and all as it sounds, I comfort myself by joking that my mind was set in the mode for another planet or dimension where the laws make perfect sense to me and the folk there can make sense of what I say as well. For a brief window of time, because I got passionate about Japanese, I studied ahead of my class, thus leading me to the delusion that I had a talent for languages after my entire life believing I'm good at nothing. But after studying Japanese for a while and beginning Chinese, I've realised once again that I'm not good at anything and my efforts have nothing to show for. I'm worried one day that I'll get into an abusive relationship with someone who will take advantage of my kindness, submissiveness, naivety and subpar intelligence (I've already been in countless friendships like that), because I'm on a desperate conquest to marry a genius and have children with better neurological genetic makeup than I ended up with. In short, half of me has given up on myself, but the other half is still trying. When I lay down to sleep, I vacillate between thinking I'm too lazy or have a learning disability or a weak conscience/will/sense of discipline or personality. Speaking of bedtime, I sometimes wonder if never going to bed at a reasonable time for my age in my life has had a part to play in this. I've spent countless hours extensively researching what neurological disorder I just might have. I found one called "Executive Functioning Disorder" but I suspect my case is something much rarer and even more severe. I just want to help people, not rely on everyone else's help and become a burden again and again. Anyway, I hope and pray that everyone can find their purpose in life, myself included.

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  • megadriver

    You sound a lot like my first girlfriend. She was very passionate about learning and went mental, whenever she failed at something.

    First, get off webMD, or any other website that tries to convince you, that you got some disease. 95% says you don't.

    Also grades are garbage... A bunch of numbers given to you for conforming to an outdated system. Everyone is good at something and schools should encourage students to get better at their strengths, not hold them back because of their flaws.

    I know a guy who only finished high school and never got a degree. Dude makes twice the money I make and I got a degree in economics.
    I know a girl with 2 degrees, grade-A student, perfect scores. She makes a third of what I make.
    I sell cars, have a small business and a Saturday job.

    Not everybody is cut out to be a professor. I found lots of stuff in university boring, tedious, or simply too demanding and had my fair share of cheating.
    Seeking knowledge is a very good thing, but there is no reason to beat yourself over it. Nobody said it was gonna be easy. The important thing is that you have a passion and are working towards achieving it.

    Believe me, I've had my fair share of self hate, self doubt, depression, etc for not making it big before the age of 25. Got a big reality slap in the face about 2 years ago, but that doesn't stop me. I'm not giving up on the dream of retiring on a yacht. I'm doing that shit.

    PS: Chinese and Japanese are very difficult languages. Everything is completely different.

    I'm Bulgarian and learning English was easy for me. Everything is in English, starting from movies, all the way to warning labels on bathroom air fresheners (cause they are so dangerous), so you learn, even if you're not trying your best. If you asked me about grammar rules in the English language, I'll look like an idiot, but at the same time, I can pull off a smooth American accent and speak properly.
    Learning German was ok too, since in a few ways it's similar to English. Grammar there was a bitch and you need to learn it copy-paste style.
    Learning Spanish was far more difficult and I never learned it properly.

    But if I had to learn Japanese, forget about it. No chance of me learning that stuff. So already I can tell you you are better at learning languages than me.
    Because you chose on of the hardest languages and dived head first into the language of the rising sun, drifting, samurais and vtec.

    So don't be too hard on yourself, take a deep breath, take a break, relax, do stuff you like and keep soldiering on.

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  • ---duckinflight

    talk way too much

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  • TerriAngel

    Megadriver gave some great advice.
    Just based on your post you arent as poor at grammar as you think.
    It would be easy to say maybe you have one of these popular learning issues.
    I.E. add, adhd, hdtv, ass burgers, etc.
    But Im not a big fan of labeling and medicating anyone who doesnt fit the cookie cutter mold.
    People learn differently and have different skills.
    Embrace your strengths.
    As for kids.
    The world has enough.

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  • Boojum

    "If I write anything, I always have to explain myself because it's incoherent and I don't have the innate ability to reason logically (not to mention a weak grasp of grammar, especially in other languages)."

    It would have been easier to read your post if you'd whacked the carriage return key a few times, and you wrote "conquest" when you obviously meant "quest", but the vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and structure of your post makes it clear you are definitely not an idiot when it comes to writing English. That calls into question everything else negative you say about yourself.

    It sounds like you're flailing around somewhere in the education system. Not everybody copes well in academic settings, but that doesn't mean they're stupid, useless and will never amount to anything. All school, from kindergarten to post-grad, is a matter of following the programme and jumping through a progression of hoops. Being bad at that may seem a curse at the moment, but in reality it isn't.

    At the worst, being bad at school means it would probably be unwise for you to seek a career in teaching where you would spend your life trying to pound other square pegs into round holes and being required to reward the good little parrots who repeat exactly what they've been taught. At the best, it could mean that your brain doesn't work the way those of others do, and you could find a place in the world where a skewed, original approach is a valuable asset.

    You seem to have spent a lot of time working on a long list of all the things you're less than perfect at, but there must be something you enjoy and do well. Maybe you're depressed and incapable of assessing your abilities rationally right now, but I think you should focus on finding something you're good at and becoming truly engaged with it.

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  • ihatefags9-11

    but the thing is are you sexy? just wonderin it might not be as bad as you think if you cute. its pretty damn bad if you ugly as a motherfucker. im just tryna tap...

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  • bigbudchonga

    You could take an IQ test. Honestly, it's a risk because it could come back with a poor result, but given how much this is fucking with you it might be worth it just to get some possible positive affirmation.

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