LARA LOGAN: URGENT: Acc to an informant in New Mexico - Trump’s plane is the next target for assassination.
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No, but their way of interacting with the environment and the people in it is skewed, sometimes badly. There is always a continuum.
You made several excellent points. I have no problem recognizing I'm damaged goods. PTSD from multiple men beating mommy up, Instability having lived in more than 50 places by the time I was 18, Mom wasn't good at managing and was drunk. HTDD, Poor Emotional Control. I often have said I wish I was stupid and didn't realize things. I thought I was stupid for a long time. I was in Special Ed until they realized I just had bad eyesight, I wasn't retarded. I'm also mentally lazy, from the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, the massive self-medication on weed constantly from 12 until in my 30s, both? Other factors?
However, when I tried to join the military at 19 they sent me to an eye specialist. He sent me back to the Recruiter with a sealed envelope with the results. " I'm Sorry Rick, we can't take you in" "We wanted you Badly, your AZFAB score was 1 in a 1000." I was a dropout at 14, the start of 9th grade. This was 1977 a few years after the Vietnam War was over, so they weren't desperate to recruit he wasn't blowing smoke up my butt.
At 26 I took the GED without studying, I took the tests that show what you need to work on and the teacher said you can pass the test now. They were having the test the following week. I lied, I did have her give me some English Worksheets for the weekend. Signed up for the tests. Was late for the first one by 30 min. but the proctor said I'll write your start time down on the blackboard, you can take all 5 sections today if you want... That was illegal at the time btw in Florada the test was supposed to be over 2 days. I took the 4 tests that day and went back and did the 5th part of the essay the next. I just took the GED because my sister of average IQ and was a year older than I had.
At 30 I was injured on the Job and My Ambulance chaser had me take the state Aptitude testing in order to go for training on Workers Comp's Dime. I thought I was stupid because I didn't know all the little tests that were timed were designed so that no one could finish them. When I went back and got my results the councilor said well you have two strong career paths. Computer Programming or Bank Administration. While I was already a computer Hobbyist, the Bank thing made me laugh, there I am the poster boy for the dumb hick look. Pimple pocked skin, lazy eye, plenty of broken teeth, and crappy clothes. I told her if she heard of a bank presidency opening, let them know I am available.
So, the factory I got hurt at came up with a job I could do with my injured leg and I did it for a year. Then quit and went to Electronics School, Vocational it was a 1 year program, 3 semesters, there was no summer break. I got done in 2 and they made me stay into the 3rd semester until the Tuition scholarship paid. The Basic programming portion was easy I finished in a day, the teacher said most people took 1 to 2 weeks.
I didn't get a job in Electronics, in those days there were dozens of people who got certified for every actual job opening. The program taught a lot of things a tech-level person doesn't need. So I worked my factory job and a full-time security Job for 3 months. Then signed up for college. I took Basic Algebra and Intro to accounting (The easiest class I ever took), and paid for them. I'd taken the ACT test and scored high enough that I got a 2+2 Honors scholarship.
Keep in mind I didn't apply for that myself, the school doesn't get the money if they don't have a qualifying student. The Chair of the English Dept. told me well just mix in academics with your computer courses. That scholarship was a full ride for 2 years at CC and 2 years at UCF, however, I quit after I'd reached 37 credits. I had no interest in honors studies, and just because I have always been a good test taker doesn't mean I would have been successful in the Honors courses...
As I'd said at the top I'm mentally lazy, I only wanted to learn what interested me. I ended up with a 3.47 GPA for those 37 credits. Basic Algebra I had almost 100%, but thats just HS level no college credit. In Intermediate I had an A going into the final, then dropped to a B, College Algebra I had a B going into the Final and dropped to a C, but I was glad to get threw it. At that time you had 3 shots to pass Intermediate and college so you could only fail 1 of them once. Only 46% of students met that. The law was changed thank God.
I learned to read before first grade, but I read slowly because of my vision. I did well on the state aptitude test regarding finances because of my mother's financial deficiencies. Gram and Pop picked me and my next sibling up on the side of the road more than 1 time when we were children, the oldest sibling lived FT with them from the age of 5.
Both my mother and father had high IQ but became drunken pieces of shit, she neglectful and he was abusive. My father also supposedly was a good singer. I didn't start getting serious about singing until I was almost 60, but I can sing pretty well, it's my comfort and hobby.
So the Bible says to train your children up in the path they should take and they will follow it into old age. That can also mean if you train your child up to be a POS that's likely to happen. I'm proud that I broke that cycle of drunken abuse. Never was a drinker much, and I never beat on women.
In the end, it is not Nature or Nurture, it is Nature and Nurture (Got Computer circuitry in there heh) I haven't been broke since I was a kid, but I( don't have a lot of money either, and great at buying and managing money, suck at selling, I don't like to cheat people.
My real accomplishments have come from street counseling people to avoid the life I had, obviously, I'm not shy to share my life. I also have a strong resolve, I don't back down, but I'm not a physical fighter...
Sorry for the long rant, damaged people live too much in the past, and are like a record that skips over and over. It's therapeutic to share. My sister who was 13 months older than I and had taken the GED before me, was a lot more damaged than I was, a drunk and violent until she quit around 5 years before she died. What's funny is that the older sister was jealous of us because we actually got to live with mom off and on and she didn't she even lied about it. She couldn't see how she was spared the trauma. She is the only one that had a career and a bachelor's degree.
Now I had some self appeasement, Time to see what is new on GAW