anyone experienced a similar situation?>be me>always knew I'm cognitively gifted>never made it a habit to study since school was so easy up until around 10th grade where maths stopped being purely logical >cba, too lazy>realized that school is useless anyway nowadays. see so many people make it doing random bullshit on the internet>drop the fuck out, knowing you're going to figure it all out, eventually. you have what it takes right?>stop talking to all of your friends>wait>wait>wait>wait>stuck in a cycle of not doing anything because short term gratification and also dooming since you see how much prime time has passedit feels soo disgusting to be dominated like that by the human/subconscious side on everyday basis, what did you do to break out? inb4 no, I actually do not want to kms at all. my psyche is somehow fairly stable, since I perma cope in various ways
>>35093074Read it. It may be helpful.
>>35093074>>35093101This one, too.
>>35093103>>35093101>word dump from absolute dorkthere is no magic answer. its all an illusion.
>>35093101thanks pretty interesting read ill mention my situation differs in that instead of depression and comfort zones im perma addicted to stimulation. this is i suspect the silent killer in reality since my day do day is not like miserable just because i can entertain myself wellit's also impossible to get in depressive states like this lowkey. may or may not be related with adhd or something, idkwhen you are feeling like shit its probably easier to have a forced wake up call, you can see the issue here
>>35093202>this is i suspect the silent killer Yeah. You may end up in that cycle ofIndulging in distractions -> life doesn't improve in any meaningful way -> guilty and shame pile up -> "Well, gotta distract myself more." -> repeat.
I was told nonstop from the age of 5 how smart and gifted I was. Nonstop. Everyone was always amazed at how much I was reading and how many words I knew even from a young age. It's the worst thing that ever happened to me. I should've worked harder in school as I got older. I coasted a bit and it dragged my whole school career sideways as coasting became underperforming. Once you start going sideways you often end up going backwards. Anyways; the way out of it for me was finding an achievable goal, and making a plan for it. And then working each day to do something to help make it come true. Eventually I got a degree. But it was all so much more expensive and difficult than it should've been if I had just worked hard the whole way through.
>>35093074>always knew I'm cognitively giftedk, and stopped reading right there.
>>35093101Why do people pretend that "just improove yourself brah" is a useful piece of advice? Some people's dissatisfaction lies in them just being a certain way they dislike, or having been molded by circumstances in a certain way. Even if I were the richest man on the planet or whatever, that wouldn't mean jackshit to me because I'm not who I want to be. Nothing about my face, body, name, memories or the way I inhibit the world is recognizable. It's all deeply disgusting.
>>35094174Because the alternatives are>Whine like a bitch about the things you can't change while conveniently sitting on your ass and not bothering putting effort towards things that you can have control over(exercising,dieting,improving large variety of skill, expanding knowledge,trying to find community,the usual self-help stuff)Or>Suicide(most people are biologically programmed to avoid it, but that's always an option too)Life sucks, a lot, for the large majority of people. There are people out there have it way better than you and people who have it way worse. You're not special at all. You do stuff and try to enjoy out of it while you're still alive or you rot and die. It's not exactly complicated.
>>35094235>Whine like a bitch about the things you can't change while conveniently sitting on your ass and not bothering putting effort towards things that you can have control over(exercising,dieting,improving large variety of skill, expanding knowledge,trying to find community,the usual self-help stuff)yes, those wouldn't lead me to be where I want to be, so it's useless.>SuicideIndeed I will>You're not special at allI never claimed to be (?)>You do stuff and try to enjoy out of it while you're still alive or you rot and die. It's not exactly complicated.Okay, why all the lofty prose about "muh self improvement", then? It seems that people know what they should do (even you agree) or they can just suicide. In that case society should be even more individualistic and not moralfag about suicide. But that doesn't happen. (I'm not claiming you do that but in general it happens).
>>35094174Put effort toward the things you can change and learn to accept the things you can't
>>35093074You're not cognitively gifted. First get that delusion out of the way. Then get a job you bum.
>>35094589mossad nigger on /adv/ cut your veins bitch
>>35094824No u, schizo faggot
>>35094824HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA le hecking gifted brah! youse just a midwit, SON!
>>35093074My problem is I dont have any drive to get anything. I dont have any real burning needs or anything. I want a gf, but I don't feel any drive to get one. I want to go to Europe, but it just dont feel like putting in the effort. I think I dont ever feel like trying because nothing bad happens if I dont. Because when things are real serious, and I need to act. I act and I can handle pretty much anything. The lack of any real pressure to do anything just absolutely kills my desire to try for anything. If the world were ending in a few days id get a lot done.
>>35095569thats not me, are you new?
>>35093074if you were really gifted you wouldn't be in this situation.
>>35094174>Nothing about my face, body, name, memories or the way I inhibit the world is recognizable. It's all deeply disgusting.Nice. I like you
>>35095381>>35094589You get a job, also kill yourself fgt
>>35096060No u, triggered schizo faggit
>>35093074I did what you're doing. I'm now 30, no longer cognitively gifted, I've watched myself lose my beautiful music sense, perfect note pitch hearing, the ability to drum fast, think fast, calculate fast, ten steps ahead of everybody in conversation already. That's all gone as of late.You think you're going to be gifted forever - that is your folly. Because your giftedness is conditional on having a physically healthy life alongside having consistent healthy social relationships every day. When you don't do this, you decline.If that's not motivation enough, enjoy becoming me. My eyesights gone, i have tremors, i can barely sleep, physical activity is tough, anxiety when going outside and interacting with people is crippling. I wasn't always like this, it's the withdrawal from society and social responsibilities and responsibilities to your own well being that caused this, and i stood by idly not choosing anything but in reality this was the choice, to do nothing, and that led to my decline. You have time, 24 is so young and healthy. Don't become me
>>35093074The reality is that you are NOT all that "cognitively gifter." You were just an ordinarily smart kid. And, as must come to all people, you hit the limit of your natural smartness. For some that happens at age 6, for some at 26 or 66. And what happens then is that you realize you're going to have to start working.
