Mental Disorders

[ChildhoodObesity]

What about all those energy drinks, those caffeine bombs are everywhere and the littluns drinking it like it's lemonade. Maybe they need dope to stabilize their fragile little minds. One thing leads to another and everybody thinks they're rockstars

those should be illegal too

[thirty7even]

Didn't read past page 1, but this thread reminded me of a kid from my school.

He strikes you as a smart guy, but he had something messed up upstairs. I am pretty sure that most of the time he was on the level with best students in class, you could hit him with any subject related question and after a bit of processing he would give you an answer, but for some reason if you sit him down and ask him to write down the answer on a piece of paper, he would just sit there for hours staring at a piece of paper. Like by the time everyone has to pass the papers and leave the class, he would usually finish with putting his name on the top of the blank answer sheet.

One day he was the last one leave the changing room after PE class and when whoever was closing the door asked if there is still anyone there, he failed to respond and ended up being locked for 4 hours. Changing room was close enough to receptionist desk so if he made any noise at all, he would be heard, but he remained silent. When coach opened the changing room for the next class, he said this guy was just standing there in the middle of the room. He couldn't even be bothered to sit down, he was just standing still for 4 hours accepting his fate. I don't know what was going through that head, but I guess it was something like "well, I guess this is my life now".

I had two weird interactions with this legend. First, I remember asking him how come his homework is always on point while he's pretty much constantly in vegetative state at school. He said his box only works in cold temperatures so when he gets home and needs something done, he has to put his head in cold environment prior commencing the task. He said when he's home alone he usually has a bucket next to him with cold water with ice or snow during the winter, but he doesn't do that with his mum around because this freaks her out.

Another one was a bit later the same year. That was the day everyone found out he was doing martial arts and was pretty damn good at it. He was standing in the hall during the break, as usual, in his own world. I was trying to talk to him every once in a while. I think he liked some attention and he was actually a really interesting individual. So yeah, one of those days he was meditating in the middle of the hall when I approached him and tapped him on his shoulder. Worth mentioning I was one of the tallest kids in class and I was probably double his weight, that was when were 16 or so; back then I was doing quite a bit of sports so what happened should not have happened lol. He grabs my arm, twists it behind my back and in a fracture of a second I'm landing on the floor with my face and he's on top of me. He let me go immediately and apologised, and obviously we just laughed it off there. But that was indeed one of the memorable moments from my school years

I still have no idea how that dude managed to finish high school, but from what I heard he ended up going to one of the universities with good reputation and now he's working in a decent accountancy firm. Leg.

[MagicManICT]

I hope nobody here with a high IQ takes this the wrong way, but my experience with others that are in the "top 2%" (over 130 or so IQ) of intelligence usually do have some oddities.

Otherwise interesting story there, thirty7even. Only guy I knew in my high school that was that good in martial arts was a violent asshole. Ran into him about five-six years ago, and he was a lot more mature. He had issues of his own that I didn't get details of. He didn't remember me, but I remembered him.

[Onep]

tbh people who smoke weed are normally total degenerates whenever i see people smoking weed i look at them in disgust and i know that im way above them in every possible way. "it makes me feel good" is such a dumb reason to smoke it too. i think unless you actually have some disease where smoking it is medically proven to cure/decrease disease side effects that the negatives outweigh the positives.

woahhhhhh bro im sooooooooooo high!!!!!! wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Truth.
lmao so hi rite now dX

[ChildhoodObesity]

i have a very high iq and id like to think im very normal
@magicman

[shadyg0d]

I could easily imagine those with genius qualities being driven insane by the world and people they are forced to live with, having nothing in common with the masses who judge and alienate them on a daily basis

[Adder1234]

Otherwise interesting story there, thirty7even. Only guy I knew in my high school that was that good in martial arts was a violent asshole. Ran into him about five-six years ago, and he was a lot more mature. He had issues of his own that I didn't get details of. He didn't remember me, but I remembered him.

Similar thing happened to me a year or so ago. I ran into I guy who used to bully me back in grade 2-3, he's a lot more mature now and he even apologised to me for it. It turns out his family was pretty dysfunctional to say the least, so as a result he was really jealous of me since my family got along very well. So I guess he wasn't such a bad guy after all.

[MagicManICT]

i have a very high iq and id like to think im very normal
@magicman

Yeah, I like to think I'm normal, too, but finally learned to accept me for me. (I still think I'm normal and it's the rest of the world that's screwy )

[shadyg0d]

Otherwise interesting story there, thirty7even. Only guy I knew in my high school that was that good in martial arts was a violent asshole. Ran into him about five-six years ago, and he was a lot more mature. He had issues of his own that I didn't get details of. He didn't remember me, but I remembered him.

Similar thing happened to me a year or so ago. I ran into I guy who used to bully me back in grade 2-3, he's a lot more mature now and he even apologised to me for it. It turns out his family was pretty dysfunctional to say the least, so as a result he was really jealous of me since my family got along very well. So I guess he wasn't such a bad guy after all.

We like to blame and separate each other, but the fact is we're all in the same boat as human beings. It's a vicious circle and everyone is a victim in one way or another. Most malicious behavior is just a reaction to the pain and trauma the abuser has experienced. The only antidote is true understanding of one another, and most of all ourselves

[slipper]

psychology is my favorite pseudoscience after evolutionism