Who am I?

[Zero]

i refuse to grow up. **** that ****.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by jdd2007


"skywalker and me." I'm 15.

There is an implied "am" there, so I think it's ok.

[Agathon]

You're young and impressionable, once you reach college age and learn to think critically, you might understand things better.

[Jaguar]

[monkspider]

Ah, to be a teen, to know everything and yet have your whole life ahead of you. I must admit I envy our younger members. Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.

[Az]

ahh, memories, I remember myself joining this forum at the tender age of 15, or so.

[Jaguar]

I remember myself joining this forum at the tender age of 11.

[Rogan Josh]

I am sure that you will be just like a large fraction of other kids out there with a 'superiority complex'. When you get out into the adult world and discover that you are not so hot as you once thought, you will fall into depression, maybe followed by drug addiction and a lonely death (at your own hand perhaps?).

[Jaguar]

[Cruddy]

Re: Who am I?

Originally posted by Kucinich
On one hand, I'm a kid. I get excited about things kids get excited about, I worry about things that kids worry about, I don't have the experience that many adults do. My beliefs are still quite malleable - in fact, Apolyton has proven that true. I'm a very different person from the skywalker that posted a little speech he was very proud of in every single forum on 9/11.

OTOH, I'm an adult. For the most part, I converse with adults at or above their level.

Could it be that adults don't find it easy to accept you have adult thinking habits and treat you more childishly than you find acceptable.

It takes 2 to have an intellectual conversation... but until you reach the stage where you can walk up to a prospective partner and flirt, make a pass and (who knows?) get lucky, you are NOT an adult.

Jesse Jackson's got a good definition of fatherhood, by the way. "You are not a man because you can make a baby a child. You are a man because you can raise a child". (The quote's probably a bit off but the meaning is the same.

Originally posted by Kucinich
I'm far superior to the average adolescent when it comes to things like critical thinking, and better than many adults (though the adults here are in general above average).

What's the average adolescent?

OK, maybe you are bored by most conversations with people the same age as you. I know I was when I was a teenager... but that's enough of me.

Critical thinking in a straight line is very useful... but lateral thinking is much, much rarer. You're smart... but don't go thinking you know enough.

Most think that growth ends at adulthood and you don't learn anything new. The day I don't learn something new, shoot me - I'm already dead.

Originally posted by Kucinich
I have for the most part a much better perspective on life than people my age - I see things the way an adult would, not a kid.

This can actually be a disadvantage. Having a fresh perspective is again a much rarer thing (I generally think of rarity as valuable, although it does mean your career choices, while more diverse, can also be narrower).

Originally posted by Kucinich
I'm unaffected by peer pressure...

Maybe. Probably not if one of your peers has a gun at your head or some other means of coercion or blackmail.

Originally posted by Kucinich
I can see the long term, and I understand generally how important something really is and really will be twenty years from now. In some ways I'm much more mature than them, though in others less (I'm ADHD, so I'm also prone to impulsive behavior). Basically, I don't see immediate gratification as the ultimate goal.

So you are patient, and have vision?

That's useful - just so long as you remember when to apparently lose your patience (this is a judgemental thing and comes with experience) and that your farsight could be completely wrong.

Originally posted by Kucinich
I like Apolyton because I feel I can fit here ...

Etc etc. I just like a darn good argument - and I really do like the way that many points of view are represented.

It's good - and here's a great peice of advice I got from a priest when I related my teenage dreams of fortune and high achievement.

"Never forget to laugh at life. If you take it too seriously it will grind you down."

[Flip McWho]

Maybe. Probably not if one of your peers has a gun at your head or some other means of coercion or blackmail.

I'd like to think that that isn't commonly referred to as "peer pressure".

[Traianvs]

how old is skywalker?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
I am sure that you will be just like a large fraction of other kids out there with a 'superiority complex'. When you get out into the adult world and discover that you are not so hot as you once thought, you will fall into depression, maybe followed by drug addiction and a lonely death (at your own hand perhaps?).

w00t

[Pax]

Kucinich,
What made you change your name?

Having confidence in your abilities is half the battle. You also need social skills to pull us lesser beings into a cohesive group.

Feel free to mesmerize the people around you with your charisma and charm. At some point in your life you are going to have to interact with the common folk so be ready. Look at good points of public leaders if you need examples. By most accounts Napoleon, Hitler, Reagan, kennedy, and Clinton all had good people skills.

Don't let others take your faith in yourself away.

[BeBMan]

You're on the best way to become a new supercitizen