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Old Dec 11, 2014, 02:18 PM
anothercliché anothercliché is offline
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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
Oh, now your username makes sense. Another cliche - a clone. Got it. Not that it helps you in any way.

but honestly, your way of thinking is not cliched. You are an unusual person. Highly unusual. You might not have found what you would excel at, that clearly you are not a typical guy. Does it help your outlook or hurt it to be told that you are very special?
Sort of, mostly. The name refers to me being just a copy of a standard archetype, the "misunderstood young adult". I don't feel unique or special because I've met dozens of people just like me, or rather with the same internal categorization as me. They all are seemingly smart people who test well but do poorly in academics, brilliant but lazy, funny but sad, introverted but craving external approval, blah blah blah... after a while I stopped feeling like the positives applied to me. I'm not funny despite making people laugh. I'm not brilliant, hell I'm not even smart, I just know what my intellectual limits are and I generally (though as showcased above not always) don't speak of things I know nothing about and I am willing to admit I am ignorant to much of the world, which makes people think I'm clever despite simply making me a grounded moron. People say I'm special all the time but I don't feel I've earned it, I don't feel like I'm special, I've accomplished nothing to warrant it.