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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
"It is annoying to have reflected back to me what I have not said. " quote Teacake
If you are referring to my post, I was just talking about things I didn't care for myself. I also thought about things you talked about experiencing and what I see of such things taking place and what they mean.
What makes me angry is the abundance of people who insist on telling others how to feel, instead of just listening to how others feel. There is no shortage of people who utter or act as, "Oh, I need to be all about me, and not about you".
It is very disheartening to be in the presence of someone who has all kinds of degrees in child psychology and so self important and "its all about how important they are too" because they carry that essence about them. Yet, to watch them with a child and see that what they "really" know is "how to bark orders". Then when that doesn't work, all I do is the "basics" of stopping and actually asking the child about "what they want to be", then I have no problem "encouraging" that child to learn or "listen" to me. It literally astounds me that I am considered very gifted for that.
What astounded me in that neighborhood I described is how hardly anyone "cared" about how others felt. It was such a small little neighborhood yet, divorces, and a young 14 year old boy hung himself in the basement of that pretty little perfect home, and a young mother of twins committed suicide right behind me.
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Sorry, OE, I didn't mean to sound so curt. I felt you were blaming my college for not being what I needed. College was a great college for a girl like me. I was disabled. Not disabled st 9am. Disabled at 11am.
We are sensitive people, OE. We see what others do not. We feel It too. We are not wrong to be as we are. Not so gifted people advise us, with good intentions, to let It go, to not worry about right or fair, to get ours and let others get theirs. They don't know why we cant.
They say if you are not for yourself who will be for you?
We may be too quick to retort. But if I am only for myself what am I?
When gifted traits, gifted development, gifted issues are NOT addressed It is difficult to distinguish our very nature, our needs and our strength, from a pathology.