OK, so, I'm going to talk about what was making me super sad last night and uh... some of my IRL friends follow this account and you might be a little insulted by this and I'm really sorry but I think I need to talk about it. Also, I'm going to sound like an ass in general, sorry
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I don't know how much this comes across on here because this is my trauma and shitposting account, but I'm ridiculously smart. If you want to do numbers, IQ 160, but I don't really know how well that captures much of anything at that level. I just know it for dyspraxia reasons.
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And... I've spent a lot of time downplaying this. People are like "Genie, how do you know so much?" "Genie, how did you figure this out?" etc etc and I downplay it and go "Oh well you know, I just spend a lot of time reading" or "Here's a simple trick that I used".
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And these aren't wrong, but the reality is that the answer is often "Sorry I'm just a lot smarter than you are" and I *can't* give that answer. It would be awful.
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And generally I've responded instead by trying to teach people how to think better and that's good and often works and I totally intend to keep doing it, but... it also doesn't actually solve the gap.
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I can give you all the nice well packaged thought tools you need but the fundamental dynamic stays the same. I'm handing people these little well packaged memeplexes and they're like "omg this is a revelation" and I'm like "this is literally the most obvious thing to do here"
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And don't get me wrong, the people I'm talking about are not stupid. They're often very smart themselves. Just... honestly, less so. Because there really aren't very many people out there as smart as me. And this feels very lonely.
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Don't get me wrong. My friends are wonderful amazing people and I wouldn't trade them for the world. Smartness isn't everything, and many of them are much better people than me in other ways. But in this particular, and important, way, I really don't have any connections.
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