It's all about Angles.
It's true though.
The statement above I mean. It still amazes me how blind people can be. It takes a truely rare person to look behind the facades and masks and not simply write someone off the list because they're different. Because they arn't like us, don't share the same values, or have differing opinions.
It's so easy to assume that it's their problem, rather than your own insecurities and fears. It's about angles.
I can't tell you, looking back, how many teachers simply wrote me off as smart, but lazy, because it took longer for me to work a problem in math than others. I still, to this day, remember a teacher that told me, 'your smart, but your lazy. If you just applied yourself more you could keep up with the rest of the class.'
I can remember how angry and hurt I was. I wanted to scream. I wanted to shove the piece of paper with that stupid math problem right down that bitches throat. I wished I could trap her in my mind for a day and let her live out the difficulty and emotional torture I had to endure all because there was always something 'wrong' with ME. Let her try to work it out with a visual sequencing impairment that you couldn't help even if you wanted to. Cause thats just how my brain works.
I guess thats why from a very early age, probably about first grade, I gave up on school. It didn't mean I wasn't smart, quite the contrary.
I have an amazing ability for creative problem solving in the real world. But the real world seems to have this annoying preconception that, however you do well in school, that must be how well you will get along in the real world.
It amazes me how incredibly stupid people really are.
I can't tell you how many dumb-fucks i've come across that waltzed out of school with straight A's, and had the common sense of dirt. Who would sit there wasting precious moments trying to figure out 'what the velocity of that train speeding towards me is and how much time it will take to get to me before I'm roadkill?' My answer to that is,'there is a fucking train headed for you dipshit. WHO THE HELL CARES? GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!'
And then there's people like me. we struggle with school for whatever reason, and are written off as the trash of society or lazy simply because it takes us a little more time than someone 'normal' to do something.
But we too have our strengths.
We have this nifty little thing called common sense.
Or maybe we can create beautiful art.
Or maybe we have some other unconventional skill that can't be measured by a state test.
But because it can't bemeasured, graded, folded up and shipped out to the highest bidder, it means precisely jack.
That we're 'not normal'.
Basically, we're considered, either consciously or unconsciously, defective specimins of humanity.
And so we're shoved into the back-burners of society, because we don't fit into the mold they think is right. When we go to interview for a job, and ask what percentile of the class we're in. And when we tell them, they write us off without giving it a second thought, no matter how well qualified we may be, or how good we may be, because it doesn't matter. what we can do can't be measured, and because it can't be measured, it means nothing to society.
And yet Einstein was one of our greatest successes, and he didn't fit the mold. He had a learning disability. Difficulty reading.
Or perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci, with his radical 'flying machine's' that are now known as helicopters and save millions of lives every day.
What about Socrates, who was, for all rights, a bum, penniless in life, but one of the greatest minds known to history.
And yet we still strive to make everyone the same, a carbon copy of what we believe they're supposed to be.
And look where it's gotten us.
Genocides. Massacres. Atomic Bombs. Senseless Wars. Slavery.
The list just goes on and on.
Now granted, we arn't all bad.
We have the potential to create beautiful things.
We have the potential to live in peace.
We have the potential to do a great many things.
But we don't.
But then, it's all about angles.
The statement above I mean. It still amazes me how blind people can be. It takes a truely rare person to look behind the facades and masks and not simply write someone off the list because they're different. Because they arn't like us, don't share the same values, or have differing opinions.
It's so easy to assume that it's their problem, rather than your own insecurities and fears. It's about angles.
I can't tell you, looking back, how many teachers simply wrote me off as smart, but lazy, because it took longer for me to work a problem in math than others. I still, to this day, remember a teacher that told me, 'your smart, but your lazy. If you just applied yourself more you could keep up with the rest of the class.'
I can remember how angry and hurt I was. I wanted to scream. I wanted to shove the piece of paper with that stupid math problem right down that bitches throat. I wished I could trap her in my mind for a day and let her live out the difficulty and emotional torture I had to endure all because there was always something 'wrong' with ME. Let her try to work it out with a visual sequencing impairment that you couldn't help even if you wanted to. Cause thats just how my brain works.
I guess thats why from a very early age, probably about first grade, I gave up on school. It didn't mean I wasn't smart, quite the contrary.
I have an amazing ability for creative problem solving in the real world. But the real world seems to have this annoying preconception that, however you do well in school, that must be how well you will get along in the real world.
It amazes me how incredibly stupid people really are.
I can't tell you how many dumb-fucks i've come across that waltzed out of school with straight A's, and had the common sense of dirt. Who would sit there wasting precious moments trying to figure out 'what the velocity of that train speeding towards me is and how much time it will take to get to me before I'm roadkill?' My answer to that is,'there is a fucking train headed for you dipshit. WHO THE HELL CARES? GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!'
And then there's people like me. we struggle with school for whatever reason, and are written off as the trash of society or lazy simply because it takes us a little more time than someone 'normal' to do something.
But we too have our strengths.
We have this nifty little thing called common sense.
Or maybe we can create beautiful art.
Or maybe we have some other unconventional skill that can't be measured by a state test.
But because it can't bemeasured, graded, folded up and shipped out to the highest bidder, it means precisely jack.
That we're 'not normal'.
Basically, we're considered, either consciously or unconsciously, defective specimins of humanity.
And so we're shoved into the back-burners of society, because we don't fit into the mold they think is right. When we go to interview for a job, and ask what percentile of the class we're in. And when we tell them, they write us off without giving it a second thought, no matter how well qualified we may be, or how good we may be, because it doesn't matter. what we can do can't be measured, and because it can't be measured, it means nothing to society.
And yet Einstein was one of our greatest successes, and he didn't fit the mold. He had a learning disability. Difficulty reading.
Or perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci, with his radical 'flying machine's' that are now known as helicopters and save millions of lives every day.
What about Socrates, who was, for all rights, a bum, penniless in life, but one of the greatest minds known to history.
And yet we still strive to make everyone the same, a carbon copy of what we believe they're supposed to be.
And look where it's gotten us.
Genocides. Massacres. Atomic Bombs. Senseless Wars. Slavery.
The list just goes on and on.
Now granted, we arn't all bad.
We have the potential to create beautiful things.
We have the potential to live in peace.
We have the potential to do a great many things.
But we don't.
But then, it's all about angles.