Thanks for your amazing post daynrand! Wow, those Mensa people are...just so totally wrong in attitude. I always thought they were something to be proud of joining, wow, I'd just pass on an invitation too with an intro like that.

I'm so sorry about how your dad reacted to what was clearly a life-defining or life-changing moment for you. That's just terrible, and I know how crushing that must have felt.

I truly believe you should go for your goals! I also don't really get life either. I don't like the way people "measure" successes nowadays. Society is misleading itself by tricking itself into believing in what seems "concrete" and "perfect", and most of all, a "standard" to measure with. Life is too fluid and grey for that.