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Anonymous at Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:55:39 UTC No. 16616678
How do you cope with feeling like a retard? I always wanted to work in IT or chemistry but never got the opportunity. I tried electrical engineering training but failed due to poor grades. Now I'm four months into public administration training and I'm already struggling with exams. Have I been overestimating myself? My last IQ test scored 120, but I still feel like a mouth breathing retard. I'm seriously considering just eating yellowcake and be done with this shit. How tf am I supposed to cope?
Anonymous at Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:06:16 UTC No. 16616887
>>16616678
I distract myself with meaningless attention sinks. Though I'm getting to the point where it's not working anymore.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:45:01 UTC No. 16618024
>>16616678
>I always wanted to work in IT or chemistry but never got the opportunity.
Why?
>How tf am I supposed to cope?
Become entrepreneur and make F U money. People are so unhappy these days and it's blamed on "mental illness". When in reality that suffering is a natural consequence of their poor circumstance. Grinding and pissing away so much precious time because if they don't, they won't afford to live and when they reach their materialistic goals the realization kicks in — shitty fucking tradeoff. I'm not saying money solves all problems, but it can probably help a lot.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:48:49 UTC No. 16618034
>>16616678
Just go live in the woods and study what you enjoy. Academia is shit & so is industry. You're not missing much.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:28:26 UTC No. 16618077
>>16616678
I get mocked/condescended with relentlessly by my high IQ family members and contemplate suicide, unironically. No achievement in my life has ever really been enough to change that.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:55:07 UTC No. 16618099
>>16618077
Why do you care? Life is not an intelligence test.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:17:58 UTC No. 16618114
>>16618099
Mostly because my entire social circle bases value off that stuff, generally. Family especially. I also failed at my dreams by flunking my EE degree twice. Just unfortunate is all, nothing worth dying over obviously - I'm still here after all.
>Life is not an intelligence test.
It feels that way at times, even when you handwave away many of the general advantages and opportunities for experiences/pathways that lacking intelligence more or less hard walls you out of.
Anonymous at Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:44:19 UTC No. 16618190
>>16618114
You're telling me your level of self-esteem is dependent on their validation? Why?
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:27:21 UTC No. 16618940
>>16618190
The social organism can trigger apoptosis. Instead of trying to ignoring the mocking and failures, OP should either try to prove them wrong or pick something better suited to OP's talents and interests than EE.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:51:05 UTC No. 16619029
Ritalin
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:02:09 UTC No. 16619032
>>16616678
as with everything, bruteforce it, it ain't going to grind itself
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:10:49 UTC No. 16619040
>>16616678
a lot of it comes down to having a head start. plenty of times felt completely outclassed by people, and 90% of the time, it turned out they had top-tier high schools or some crazy competitive background. being the first in your family to go to college sucks too - you don't realize how much grind is actually needed. you think you're prepared, but you're really not
the real question is do you enjoy it. if so, screw the rest.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:02:20 UTC No. 16621653
>>16619029
What are the pros and cons?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:03:48 UTC No. 16621654
>>16618024
>Become entrepreneur and make F U money
If it were that easy everyone would do it
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:24:24 UTC No. 16623078
>>16621654
Why isn't it possible?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:28:27 UTC No. 16623437
>>16621653
The pros is you can focus and stop being a retard, the cons is just suffering in the purest form, have fun with it
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:09:51 UTC No. 16624385
>>16616678
You're probably a shitter, i.e. 0 work ethic.
Also >>16618034 this and >>16618024
this
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:07:32 UTC No. 16624543
You already failed.
Be like me. Know I'm probably dumb so I never take a legitimate IQ test. That way I never limit myself by putting a number on my mental acuity.
If I think I'm smart I won't pussy out from following through on my ideas. Knowing your own IQ is like setting yourself up for either failure if it's low or disappointment if it's high and you make a dumb decision.
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:12:23 UTC No. 16624546
>>16616678
you dont need to be einstein to do IT