The Maelstrom of Violence

[Warren Dew]

(09-24-2017, 07:15 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-23-2017, 11:50 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-23-2017, 11:37 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

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Quote:It's a matter of perception, and I can think of two attributes of you to which you admit.

Perception matters, you've chosen to perceive yourself as a victim and thus you become one.  You're not prey, you're a predator, but instead of using strength or intellect or even cunning to achieve your ends you use pathetic-ness.  You are a vampire and your blood is the altruism of others.  Indeed I'd say that if you were a Rick and Morty character you'd be Jerry.    I recommend watching season 3 episode 5.

http://www.toonova.net/rick-and-morty-se...-episode-5

I'd rather not be a victim. My parents mishandled me because I didn't create any problems. The K-12 educational system saw me as a model student, and again I didn't create any problems. I was the sort to run away from fights, and I played by the rules. Be a conformist, but don't be perfect at it? I was a satisfying compromise.

But had I known I would have done many things differently.

What do you think your parents should have done differently?  What would you have done differently?

If you were a model student, did you go to college?  What degree did you get?

University of California, Berkeley. Economics.

In retrospect, yeah, not a great degree for aspies.  The natural follow on would be an MBA and a job that involved lots of human interaction - the kind of job aspies are worst at.

Still, my degree is not in what I'm now doing either.