you know what pisses me off? well, actually, you don’t, so I’l fill you in.
I’m relatively young compared to most of the poeple in sdmb, how young I won’t say because I’m usually subjected to “ageism” as I like to call it, and I’m usually excluded. real sucky. lets just say I’m not old nough to drink. LEGALLY that is, in canda nor the US.
and yet, even though I’m young, I can’t get along mentally with others my age!!! I’m a very sarcastic person, andI read on average 1-2 novels a week, so I know a litle more about the outside worldthen most of my freinds. I can’t make jokes about politics, limited as my knowledge of them is, because they’l just look at me funny and ask me what I’m on. which usually isn’t anything. it pisses me off! i mean, I’m VERY immature for a 14-19 year old girl, and yet, I get along better with grownups(grownups being people that can legally drink) and its making me mad because now I’m hanging out with all the grade 12ers and my best freind is so simple she doesn’t get my jokes! but thatsalright. I’m simple too. but why can’t I be normal?!?!? why?:mad:
no, tars, you see, thats the thing. my freinds can barely read( except jj, but shes perfect) and I read fast so yesah… plus I live ina very secluded place out of town, so I have nothing else to do but read.
If it’s any consolation, it doesn’t get much better as an adult. You simply have to find your own set of friends you can talk with, or move someplace where you might have a better chance of finding sympathetic people.
If you work it right, it gets 10 times better as an adult!! I could identify with a lot the OP said (I was a legend in my own mind). But eventually I found an interesting career, friends with similar interests (or at least compatible interests), and life’s pretty cool!
I don’t see many people, if any, on these boards that will discriminate against you based upon age. The SDMB will discriminate against people who have no idea what the hell they’re talking about, but that’s to be expected.
Hah. I wrote up a formula that would spit out an infinite number of Pythagorean triplets. So nyar. Oh, yeah, go to a big college. I was an antisocial geek all through high school. Here at college, I joined the antisocial geek club.
Say what? (Gobear, Phi Gamma Delta, class of 1983) Joining a sorority can only be a good thing–going Greek helps you learn to get along with people from different backgrounds and gives you an instant support group. (And if you’re a gay boy, you’ll get a lot of action from horny straight boys–trust me :D)
In any event the “everybody around me is sooooo stupid” stage the OP is going through will be alleviated as she grows up, moves out, and finds friends with similar outlooks and habits in the wider world.
…just for the record, Sorority Life isn’t exactly indicative of the average sorority. I mean, the average sorority isn’t being filmed by friggin’ MTV.
And, no, magic8ball, the people don’t get smarter as you get older. You just meet a whole lot more of them. Also…I was rather like you as a child. I realized at one point, however, that while I might know a bunch about books and other things, some people I had thought stupid knew a shitload about stuff that I’d barely even heard of (such as sewing). If you talk to some of your friends, you might be surprised.
