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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (16646)	1/19/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 71178

Yeah--my life is trashed. I can't bear to continue like this, always searching for real love, for real understanding, but finding only emptiness and loneliness. The world doesn't appreciate me. No one does. I am special. Oh and unique, too. I forgot unique. 4's believe they're unique. Gee-I thought you really WERE one of the geniuses. But I guess even above you, just a regular run of the mill genius, there lurk almost alien minds. Thing is when you start getting into the stratospheric brains, you can start seeing some pretty odd characteristics. They're often socially incompetent or suffer from neuroses and compulsions; there's no guarantee that all that IQ translates into common sense or the ability to communicate with ordinary people. I had the opposite problem. I never believed I had any brains at all. (Another note to parents: Do NOT do everything for your children-you may think you're helping, but they start believing it's because they're too stupid to do it right.) My first assumption was always that everyone I met was smarter than I and would do -whatever -better. I've finally figured out that pretty much everybody is screwed up in one way or another. Mostly some people just talk louder or longer and with a great deal of conviction. It took me years to get rid of the question mark on the ends of my statements. ("I really don't like Clinton?" "Eating three pieces of this pie was not a good thing?" "I don't want to have sex?" If we've made mistakes with CW, it's in letting him believe he's fully capable of running his own life. Which means when he's screwing up bad, it's very hard to convince him he is. ANd of course now he has that one point to haul up in an argument. "Remember Mom, my IQ is higher than yours." I just got a message from him wanting to go to a CAke concert. What's Cake? Should we let him?