jasong
05-13-2008, 11:48 PM
First, let me say that, despite the title, there is no emergency going on between my ears. Well, no more than usual. Anyway...
Let's say you have an individual, we'll call him jasong(I prefer to talk about this in the third person, though I'd have trouble explaining why. I guess it just helps me deal with the problem better.)
A few facts about this person: This person is a very erratic, though non-violent individual. He is capable of learning a great deal, but the more responsibility he is given, the more likely he is to fail, and fail intentionally. He has a social anxiety disorder, which he undeniably uses as a crutch, more so in his own head than with other people, but it's utilized way too much either way. He is undisciplined and lonely. He badly wants to learn the skills needed to get a tech job, but inevitably fails at classes within 3 weeks to 2 months after starting them, though he may be doing extremely well 2/3rds of the way to the failure.
His mother says he was considered a miracle child up until the time he started attending the first grade. When he was home, he was well-behaved, calm, and eager to learn. Despite this, many of his teachers thought of him as retarded. He almost always did well on intelligence tests, scoring extremely high, many times so high that the margin of error rules used with the test placed him high enough that he was smarter than anywhere from 95% to 100% of the people.
He is a contrarian to an extreme degree, he recently made his first stock investment, and it was with AMD. There is something he finds very appealing about investing in a company that is treading water, while people in general seem to be predicting bad times ahead.(I think AMD will come out of it, just not for at least 3 years or so) He loves to examine the opposing view for anything. When people talk about how horrible Hitler was, he mentions the first European television broadcast and the Volkswagen. When people say how they feel about global warning, he chooses to verbally examine the opposing, or minority view of the person(s).
He believes the weak and abused in society are the ones most deserving of attention. He is a firm believer in cheering for the underdog, whether it is a "crank" on Mersenne Forum, or a so-called elitist Obama.
He makes his life about other people to the point where it is harmful. He believes that the reason he fails at tech classes is because he isn't able to come up with a concrete reason that what he's doing isn't just for himself.
What do think I should do? I am 33 years old , and I am living the way you would think a 17 year old would. (I mean in terms of my income and the fact I live with my parents)
Let's say you have an individual, we'll call him jasong(I prefer to talk about this in the third person, though I'd have trouble explaining why. I guess it just helps me deal with the problem better.)
A few facts about this person: This person is a very erratic, though non-violent individual. He is capable of learning a great deal, but the more responsibility he is given, the more likely he is to fail, and fail intentionally. He has a social anxiety disorder, which he undeniably uses as a crutch, more so in his own head than with other people, but it's utilized way too much either way. He is undisciplined and lonely. He badly wants to learn the skills needed to get a tech job, but inevitably fails at classes within 3 weeks to 2 months after starting them, though he may be doing extremely well 2/3rds of the way to the failure.
His mother says he was considered a miracle child up until the time he started attending the first grade. When he was home, he was well-behaved, calm, and eager to learn. Despite this, many of his teachers thought of him as retarded. He almost always did well on intelligence tests, scoring extremely high, many times so high that the margin of error rules used with the test placed him high enough that he was smarter than anywhere from 95% to 100% of the people.
He is a contrarian to an extreme degree, he recently made his first stock investment, and it was with AMD. There is something he finds very appealing about investing in a company that is treading water, while people in general seem to be predicting bad times ahead.(I think AMD will come out of it, just not for at least 3 years or so) He loves to examine the opposing view for anything. When people talk about how horrible Hitler was, he mentions the first European television broadcast and the Volkswagen. When people say how they feel about global warning, he chooses to verbally examine the opposing, or minority view of the person(s).
He believes the weak and abused in society are the ones most deserving of attention. He is a firm believer in cheering for the underdog, whether it is a "crank" on Mersenne Forum, or a so-called elitist Obama.
He makes his life about other people to the point where it is harmful. He believes that the reason he fails at tech classes is because he isn't able to come up with a concrete reason that what he's doing isn't just for himself.
What do think I should do? I am 33 years old , and I am living the way you would think a 17 year old would. (I mean in terms of my income and the fact I live with my parents)