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people have seemed to think I'm "intelligent"

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i really don't see it, regardless of being put down constantly throughout my life, by those i share genetics and nothing else with too.

i see other peoples posts, messages, anything, and so many times people just seem to think better than i do, and i just feel kind of incapable of doing anything else than surviving day by day.

then theres people who seem to think my "heads screwed on" it really isnt, though its usually been people with addiction problems that have said that, so never worth believing anyway.

ah i don't know, currently ill with potential covid, so been stuck in this hostel type place all week, can come out of isolation and back to work friday if i feel ok to.

went out earlier because im going nuts here, and did me some good mentally, did what i could to keep away from people, wore mask etc, but people didnt keep distance from me, so, i dunno, did my best not to spread anything, not that any other person bothers to.

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  • Of course it's now well established that intelligence isn't a good measure of ability to function in society for autistic people.

  • in reply to Peter

    That is definitely true! I did okay academically at school, nearly all A's and A*'s at GCSE (I got a C in Art) and then proceeded to fail spectacularly at every aspect of life from that day onwards, being apparently unable to function in society at all! Having said that though, I don't think that my good grades were a measure of intelligence, more a result of a lot of effort, no social life to distract me, and a pretty useless ability to remember what we were supposed to write in exams!

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  • in reply to Peter

    That is definitely true! I did okay academically at school, nearly all A's and A*'s at GCSE (I got a C in Art) and then proceeded to fail spectacularly at every aspect of life from that day onwards, being apparently unable to function in society at all! Having said that though, I don't think that my good grades were a measure of intelligence, more a result of a lot of effort, no social life to distract me, and a pretty useless ability to remember what we were supposed to write in exams!

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