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  • Knowing stuff can be a curse, especially when you’re 10 steps ahead of everyone else in the room and you know they’re just going to need the time to figure it out on their own.

    But being smart means you know how and when to apply your knowledge. So you can provide the information when it’s actually useful and not when it just gets blank stares.

    And knowing stuff but NOT talking about it all the time, and not using “told you so” means that when you DO speak, anyone who matters will listen and take you seriously.

    I find that slipping useful knowledge into self-deprecating jokes is a useful way to get people to listen to it.

  • I don't hate it but it does occasionally feel like a burden. As in knowing that I could solve a problem that people are struggling with and whether it's ethical to not help because I don't feel like it.

    Hating "knowing stuff" seems bizarre to me though. There's so many interesting things in our world - wanting to know less sounds awful. Like opting into a lobotomy.

  • I do, cus then people call me obnoxious or say I'm showing off but I'm not, I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE ADHD AND ALCOHOL 😭😭😭

    I can't ever have a normal conversation with someone. It has to be some random shit I hyper-fixated on just enough to write a research paper on for no fucking reason. Like why humans have such pungent body order despite us not having advanced enough Olfactory Senses to not "read" scents or pheromones the same way dogs or cats can.

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