The way out is through theory

[cheshire_bitten]

I just submitted a math honors thesis, big fucking deal right

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[kitling]

I used four different people as proof readers for my thesis - this to is normal - everyone needs grammer and spelling checking.

[cheshire_bitten]

Thanks

[gwyd]

I don't know anyone who didn't have someone with fresh eyes proof their Master's or Doctoral thesis, usually several someones. They actually had us hand drafts around for proofing to multiple readers in my program at various points, because more eyes are better. Most of my friends read all or part of my Master's thesis at various points, poor bastards, and my partner at the time clearly deserved some sort of medal. It's normal to have outside proofing with the big, important papers, as once you've been working on something intensively for a while, you can't really see it any more. really, one is supposed to have a proofer for all papers, but i never bothered for anything under twenty pages in length, and paid for it now and then. In the 40 pages and up range, it's vital as one is apt to duplicate, leave bits out, get sentence structure tangled with multiple revisions and it's hugely embarrassing to turn in something you've put months into with w=embarrassing errors, in a way it just isn't for something one tossed off in an

[aeduna]

I can't manage without time alone, yet almost everyone else loves crowds and gatherings as a way of relaxing. I go nuts and start tuning out of everything to the point of falling asleep on people at work in a desperate subconscious attempt to not have to deal with the interaction.

You've told me about people who have synathaesthesia and see emotional states as colours, but otherwise don't have much empathy, and defended that as not 'bad' but just different because they were not losing information, just getting it differently.

Your brain works differently - its just not good at that method of communication. You know this, but you've gotta stop applying hypercritical standards to yourself that you fight to free other people from. And take help for what it is - other people's skills complementing yours, not pity or a sign of weakness.