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Scandanavian War Machine:
i will totally be your friend, Mai.
ruyi:
Hello, I'm Catherine. I'm in my last year at UC Berkeley, and hopefully I will have a BA in Rhetoric by July. I would say I am best described as slow and deliberate in person? I've only met a few of you so far and you can probably attest to my poor first impressions.
Sorry to be quoting something from page one, but this -
--- Quote from: Elizzybeth on 31 Jan 2009, 13:11 ---Sometimes I worry that my relative youth--I'm 18 now--is the only thing I've got going for me, and once I'm the same age as my colleagues, a gong will sound somewhere in the cosmos and everyone will realize that I'm not actually very interesting at all.
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This is exactly how I feel! By the time I graduate I will be 18. The experience of skipping so many grades has heavily informed my personality. I over-analyze things because for most of my life I felt a pressure to come across as older, and that behavior was necessarily cerebral rather than natural. It can be hard to unlearn but it's an ongoing process. I'm slowly becoming better at making decisions organically in my life.
I can also get kind of anxious about making friends in part because I've changed peer groups so many times. (The other part is because I am dumb and worry about things I shouldn't.) I guess that might be a funny way to put it but it's the same experience as anyone who's ever moved while growing up, I'm sure.
The other big thing shaping me is my family. I grew up with mostly just my mom taking care of me and my older brother, who has high-functioning autism. I feel very strongly about having to take care of both of them, but especially my mom. Actually, since I've only stopped living with them for just over a year, I think I still expect other people to be heavily defined by their families and I find myself needing to ask about their parents when I'm trying to get to know them. Obviously most people I meet are pretty much (becoming) adults in that regard, so I should probably stop.
These days my week is spent between school, work, volunteering, and going to the gym. The last thing is a recent development. I have been getting pretty chubby (uh I mean thick) for a long time now but I am finally starting to lift weights. It's pretty enjoyable!
the_pied_piper:
Hi all, i'm Rob and i'm a student at university in the UK. I study Maths and Spanish but i'm not a great student and in my spare time i volunteer as a maths teacher in a local school. I mostly post on the music board due to the fact that i listen to enough music daily to make me seem like an addict and i have terrible sleep problems so i'm here at stupid o'clock in the morning UK time quite often.
I am told i'm quite cynical and blunt but i try to be inoffensive, if possible.
I also love photography but am lacking a sufficiently functional camera to take good enough pics.
Barmymoo:
I'm interested in what you are all saying about skipping grades, I missed a year out during primary school and went back down again at the start of secondary school, meaning that I spent four years a year ahead and then repeated a year. I've often thought that might have had an impact on the way I make friends, and a lot of my friends are older. Quite often they're significantly older and I sometimes have trouble convincing myself that they aren't just tolerating me because I make a good mascot. That might have been the case when I was younger but now they would tell me if I was being annoying.
Ruyi, can you tell me more about the volunteering you do? I had a look at the website and it seems really interesting but also incredibly controversial. How did you get into it?
Elizzybeth:
--- Quote from: ruyi on 03 Feb 2009, 10:52 --- my older brother, who has high-functioning autism.
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Ruyi, this is eerie. My older brother also has high-functioning autism.
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