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29691 No. 29691 [Edit]
I feel absolutely worthless, and among other things the problem is, that I'm
just stupid. I knew this from my early childhood and this feeling was consistent
through all of my life. I just happen to be always the slowest in class, the
slowest to understand things, the one that comes up with the objectively worst
solutions, the worst in absolute anything, that requires some thinking. It's a
clear pattern, that no matter what I do, I'm just inferior or lesser in terms of
my cognitive ability (not that I would be better in anything else, but this isn't
the purpose of this post).

You need to understand that this frustration does not stem from a single sitation
or moment, where I just happened to be worse, but that this is a problem through
all my life. From elementary school into adulthood this a common theme.

There have been many gaslighting attempts by people, who I know in real life,
like psychiatrist for example, to make me believe, that this inferiority complex
stems from depression or anything like that, but I don't believe that. My life
experience has made it evident that I'm vastly inferior to anyone, who isn't a
drooling retard. Once I did an IQ test with a psychiatrist and I got an actual
result (I scored below 85) and he still tried to gaslight me into thinking, that
I'm not stupid. Important to note here is that I'm not one of those people, who
did an IQ test once and then felt bad, because they scored low, in fact, I knew
I would score this low already long before, because of my prior life experience.
I don't think this IQ score is as meaningful as the many, many times I failed at
very basic things, that normal people don't seem to have a problem with. I
brought this up to showcase how even people, who had it black on white, still
tried to make me believe otherwise.

Not only I hate myself for being stupid, but other people hate interacting with me for
being stupid. I'm patient, friendly, listen to them and try hard, but I can still
feel how people get pissed off, because they have to explain simple things to me.

One particular thing where my stupidity is a major obstacle for me, is a hobby of mine,
which is programming. I've been programming since I was 11 and I still absolutely suck
at it. It's important to me, because it actually interests me, and not a little bit, but
more so than anything else I was ever interested in. Too bad I have never created anything
in the many years, that I've been doing it. Every program that I've written, that does
something, was actually written with the help of dozens of people on IRC, that helped me and
have written the difficult portions for me, and if not that, then it's from some web forums.
I know a bit about POSIX shell scripting and that's the only area, where I've written little
thing on my own, but whenever I try to make something interesting, I fail at it.
I wish I could give it up, but I can't. I have given up many times, but always returned
to programming, whenever I felt like I didn't want anymore. It seems I'm stuck with it,
because it's the only thing, where I know a few things more than the average Joe, so
naturally I don't want to lose that little thing, I have.

I just wish it was easier for me to understand things, that seemingly only I have
problems with. Despite being hopeless and frustrated, I still try to learn new things,
but it tends to be a fruitless endeavour.

Thanks for reading.
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29692
It's even worse when you wasn't always as stupid as you are now. Retardation is a hard thing to live with. Peace to you, TC.
>> No. 29693 [Edit]
You're a good internet citizen for 80-char wrapping your posts at least. And for what it's worth you write well, so your ability to verbally communicate seems fine.

>IQ test with a psychiatrist and I got an actual result (I scored below 85)
I don't know enough about your situation to make a comment, but I guess society's whitewashing of IQ differences is annoying. The difference is sort of obvious and undeniable: an ability to pick up patterns and the underlying intuition just from examples without needing to be explicitly taught it. That said, at least for the fields I'm familiar with (e.g. STEM-related) I think past some lower-bound, IQ can be compensated for with practice and exposure. (I don't know what that lower-bound is though, so it would be patronizing to offer any false notion of reassurance)


>I'm patient, friendly, listen to them and try hard, but I can still feel how people get pissed off
I feel bad because I think I do this [get pissed off]. I could never be a teacher, I like explaining things but I can only explain things in the way I understand it and with an assumption of being familiar with all the other thoughts.

>POSIX shell scripting
I guess that's at least one thing I can provide concrete advice for without coming off as an asshat: writing POSIX shell scripts is pure masochism. The thing doesn't even have proper arrays, using something like Python (with its subprocess library) would surely seem easier.

>Thanks for reading.
>Despite being hopeless and frustrated, I still try to learn new things, but it tends to be a fruitless endeavour.
>>29692
It's a really touching post. Even if the underlying situation may not be relatable (by definition) to most people, the conveyed sense of frustration and desperation at being curious and _wanting to_ but being unable to properly explore that curiosity is really heart-rending. It reminded me of Flowers for Algernon (I would suggesting reading it, if you haven't already).
>> No. 29740 [Edit]
I can't help but imagine OP as a cute little baka.
>> No. 29741 [Edit]
>>29740
You will be very upset when you learn he's probably not. The most beautiful thing about imageboards is that you can let your imagination do its thing and forget for a moment that... nevermind
>> No. 29743 [Edit]
>>29741
Physically of course not, but emotionally why not? In that way (and perhaps only that way) do the people who choose to use anime girls as their profile picture resemble their avatars; it only starts to feel weird when they try to lean into it and actually try to act as a girl.

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