Do you feel you have a sufficient amount of life experience?
I have practically none, and it makes me feel like a low-functioner. Most of the people I know, at least over the internet, would describe me as intelligent, and though I can see why they would think that, I disagree. I may be knowledgeable on certain subjects and have my views on certain issues but when it comes to real life and practical situations, I fall to pieces.
Most of my knowledge is acquired through reading and observing, but never actually doing. My life experience is embarrassingly low, all I know is a bunch of useless crap that has no practical applications whatsoever. I become exhilarated collecting facts and information about certain subjects, when really, none of it is of any use at all.
I know more than the average Joe on a lot of things, but at the same time, I'm shamefully reliant on my mother when it comes to the most simple tasks.
For a while, I was obsessed with intelligence and 'expanding my mind'. Perhaps it was my lack of formal education that made me like this; I spent ages filling my mind with meaningless **** because it made me feel less stupid. I don't do this anymore, at least not to the extent that I used to, but I am still very self-conscious about my lack of education.
I feel like I should stop putting so much emphasis on knowledge and start focusing on real life, develop skills that are actually useful to me. I want to be able to live independently, and that's never going to happen if I continue in this way.
I have practically none, and it makes me feel like a low-functioner. Most of the people I know, at least over the internet, would describe me as intelligent, and though I can see why they would think that, I disagree. I may be knowledgeable on certain subjects and have my views on certain issues but when it comes to real life and practical situations, I fall to pieces.
Most of my knowledge is acquired through reading and observing, but never actually doing. My life experience is embarrassingly low, all I know is a bunch of useless crap that has no practical applications whatsoever. I become exhilarated collecting facts and information about certain subjects, when really, none of it is of any use at all.
I know more than the average Joe on a lot of things, but at the same time, I'm shamefully reliant on my mother when it comes to the most simple tasks.
For a while, I was obsessed with intelligence and 'expanding my mind'. Perhaps it was my lack of formal education that made me like this; I spent ages filling my mind with meaningless **** because it made me feel less stupid. I don't do this anymore, at least not to the extent that I used to, but I am still very self-conscious about my lack of education.
I feel like I should stop putting so much emphasis on knowledge and start focusing on real life, develop skills that are actually useful to me. I want to be able to live independently, and that's never going to happen if I continue in this way.