That's the wisest thing I've read all day...
But the thing is, I tend to feel lonelier amongst others.
And I relate to your friend. I hate that I'm impatient but I simply cannot grasp when someone is unable to do/understand what I can. When something comes simple to me, I don't rate myself, I just think: this is easy, why can't anybody else see that?
Hahaha. You sound exactly like him; you could be him for all I know. "I have the ability to feel alone is a crowded room" is one of his go-to self defeating axioms.
Having this problem is honestly taxing for him, and it's a difficult thing for him to talk about because others automatically see at as some claim of intellectual superiority, and it's not.
It's almost as if he feels that he's speaking a different language. His brain is always contemplating weird fucking string theory vagaries, while the rest of the world is on reality television. Successful communication involves meeting somewhere in the middle, and his problem is that he can't do that.
The whole process of interacting with other human beings involves nothing more than you trying to make them understand your thoughts while you simultaneously try to understand theirs, and that's it. There are always barriers in the way- race, class, gender, culture...and the list goes on and on and on. Intelligence is a barrier- it's a gift with a curse because it can make it difficult to relate to people. Feeling like someone else doesn't understand you, or is incapable of understanding you...it's FRUSTRATING!
You're getting in your own way, though- you're choosing not to see anything worthwhile in others because you have a rigid definition of intelligence. It's ultimately a barrier...it is the one thing that has set you apart and made you unable to relate to other people, but the thing is, you can choose to set it aside. I do it all the time (not that I'm some super fucking genius, but I'm smart).
Is it normal I feel genuinely hopeless around stupid people
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That's the wisest thing I've read all day...
But the thing is, I tend to feel lonelier amongst others.
And I relate to your friend. I hate that I'm impatient but I simply cannot grasp when someone is unable to do/understand what I can. When something comes simple to me, I don't rate myself, I just think: this is easy, why can't anybody else see that?
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Hahaha. You sound exactly like him; you could be him for all I know. "I have the ability to feel alone is a crowded room" is one of his go-to self defeating axioms.
Having this problem is honestly taxing for him, and it's a difficult thing for him to talk about because others automatically see at as some claim of intellectual superiority, and it's not.
It's almost as if he feels that he's speaking a different language. His brain is always contemplating weird fucking string theory vagaries, while the rest of the world is on reality television. Successful communication involves meeting somewhere in the middle, and his problem is that he can't do that.
The whole process of interacting with other human beings involves nothing more than you trying to make them understand your thoughts while you simultaneously try to understand theirs, and that's it. There are always barriers in the way- race, class, gender, culture...and the list goes on and on and on. Intelligence is a barrier- it's a gift with a curse because it can make it difficult to relate to people. Feeling like someone else doesn't understand you, or is incapable of understanding you...it's FRUSTRATING!
You're getting in your own way, though- you're choosing not to see anything worthwhile in others because you have a rigid definition of intelligence. It's ultimately a barrier...it is the one thing that has set you apart and made you unable to relate to other people, but the thing is, you can choose to set it aside. I do it all the time (not that I'm some super fucking genius, but I'm smart).
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I wish. That's some kind of superpower.
My emotional intelligence is what I need to improve.