it's legitimately - stay with me a minute here, i mean this - it's legitimately fucked up how i am simultaneously very smart and a huge dumbass, and i actually don't know how to integrate both of those into a coherent understanding of myself as a person
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they simply have nothing to do with each other — not every action you take can be done brainfully, but sometimes that's a good thing, like in athletic endeavors. 'Flow', too, is automatic. Auto tracks sometimes turn out dumbly. That's just life! Can find humor in it, if you try.
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wisdom is the perfection of the skill of real time integration, not a process of learning things, facts, or approaches. it is not something which can become a coherent whole, because wholes cannot be contained or defined.
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i don't think i really had the boasting option available. it was more like "here figure out how to do this technical thing that person X can't do," i'd do it with ease, and then smile, stand up and walk directly into a closed door or something like that
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i was thinking about this puzzle while walking down the street once and walked directly into a telephone pole:
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frustrating when you realize you're behind at something fundamental even though you're successful in other areas
sadly our skills don't progress at the same rate
we have to accept to some degree our abilities will ALWAYS be unbalanced
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What you don't learn in grade school is that you can be both academically gifted and developmentally retarded.
Hiding behind books, computers, and report cards to mask your insecurities, yet falling behind in more meaningful measures of quality of life 
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Also, this is the first tweet of yours that has appeared in my feed for the past 2+ weeks, welcome back!