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noname223

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Aug 18, 2020
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I am self-loathing. I hate my autistic traits always wanting to be a smart-ass. It is so shallow that this is my whole identity.

I am reading political articles like every single day almost always. But I am not smart enough to keep up with the pace. The more I understand about a topic, the more do I think I know nothing about it. The right conclusion would to less opinionated about every single topic. But I can resist to to spread my bullshit. It is easier to have a strong opinion on something, if you don't know the facts at all.

There is a quote from Max Frisch. "Crisis can be a productive state. You just have to take away the aftertaste of the disaster."

I am not sure whether it was good I almost killed myself last year. I met a woman from a dating app shortly afterwards and maybe I would have done that in case I did not do it. But I don't know what would have happened if I didn't do it. And only retrospectively I can say whether it would have been good or bad if my life ended that day.

I am in a lot of pain. I try to educate myself because of it. Because this defines my personality. In some sense this is improving. Or in another sense: my threads might help people on SaSu to distract themselves from their personal living hell. In my self-help group they told me they like listening to me because when they hear my problems their issues feel so minor. There was a woman who could open herself after listening to me. She was able to talk about intimate things. Which she could not do beforehand.

I think I can be pretty open and emotional in this group. But only because I sound smart. It is like a defense mechanism. I differentiate myself from ignorant people. People who would judge me for speaking so openly. But it is also like a class difference. I might feel in some ways superior. Which is pretty ugly. And probably is caused by being bullied extensively as a teenager. But I became the bully myself with it. I don't mock anyone. But I realized some of my humor is "look that guy is so stupid". I am not sure on it. I like Ali G when he pretends to be extremely stupid interviewing these intellectuals. Or I loved The Boondocks. There was this teacher who used the N word and the episode was based on a real teacher. It was hilarious. I posted this video on here. Boondocks is a political satire. The show is comical for breaking taboos. It is rather seldom the punchline is "look they are so stupid".

I think most of my suffering is wasted. I will never be able to hold a job. A real expert specializes himself. Even my self-awareness is useless when I only suffer because of it. My self-consciousness is rather paralyzing and decreases my well-being. I will never be at peace with myself.

My traumatas caused a lot of pain. But they made me pretty dysfunctional. Maybe I would be dysfunctional anyway. The autism thing in inherited.
 
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Like you've suggested, I think pain can motivate us to try to change so that we aren't in so much pain. That's obviously a good thing if it works but then, we probably need to check that we are in fact doing things that will ultimately help us.

Like you also say- with your need to appear smart- there are a few ways to tackle it. Either to read up on all you can so that you can continue to maintain that impression. Or, to try to challenge yourself not to appear that way so much. Or, to demonstrate what you know but, simultaneously admit your limitations.

I don't think it's all together bad to hold strong opinions, back them up with what you know but, simultaneously admit that you aren't an expert. That seems like the best compromise. But- it seems to me you already do that. Here, anyway.

But sure, pain and struggling can also make us more relatable to others, who are also struggling. I think admitting to it is important in society in general because, there is an expectation that we should all be able to cope when, we can't always. Ignoring someone struggling at study, work, relationships or whatever else, won't help them. Maybe they'll scrape through but, maybe not. They could become better and happier at what they do if they revealed their struggles and received more support for them- most probably.
 
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