Awful. I wish for ignorance in a very “Flowers for Algernon” type way, and often dull my senses with intoxicants just to try and get my brain to cease.
Imagine looking at the world, seeing all of the evils and horrors that lie in the hearts of man, and knowing you are powerless to stop all the terribleness that is happening as just one person. You try to explain it to other people, you try to get them as impassioned as you are at fighting the awfulness of the world…and they look back at you blankly. They don’t understand the connections, they don’t think on a global scale, and they question why you do. “Wouldn’t it be so much easier not to worry about that? It’s not like it affects you personally, something like that could never happen here.” So you just get to live in a world that you know is fundamentally wrong, feeling like you are wrong for rejecting it.
That has been my experience having a 168 IQ, though it says nothing of the weight of expectations that were cast on me as a child or what all I missed out on by skipping past so many grades in school.
Awful. I wish for ignorance in a very “Flowers for Algernon” type way, and often dull my senses with intoxicants just to try and get my brain to cease.
Imagine looking at the world, seeing all of the evils and horrors that lie in the hearts of man, and knowing you are powerless to stop all the terribleness that is happening as just one person. You try to explain it to other people, you try to get them as impassioned as you are at fighting the awfulness of the world…and they look back at you blankly. They don’t understand the connections, they don’t think on a global scale, and they question why you do. “Wouldn’t it be so much easier not to worry about that? It’s not like it affects you personally, something like that could never happen here.” So you just get to live in a world that you know is fundamentally wrong, feeling like you are wrong for rejecting it.
That has been my experience having a 168 IQ, though it says nothing of the weight of expectations that were cast on me as a child or what all I missed out on by skipping past so many grades in school.
that’s one thing my mom did for me that I appreciate. When they asked her if she wanted me to skip grades she said no.