Thats funny, I skipped from 3rd to 4th and 5th to 6th too, I was a 16 year old HS grad....Well I should have been. I dropped out.
I should have finished HS instead of dropping out as a straight A senior...I should have went to college instead of trying to do it all on my own with no formal education...mainly self educated which makes you a good jack of all trades over a lot of topics but a master of none...
But at least I make decent money and have no college loans to pay back....haha suckers.
What's even funnier is I too am a highschool dropout. I guess it's not really FUNNY but for the sake of conversation...
Personally, I disagreed with the motives behind my curriculum and loathed being 'taught' by people who would just regurgitate other's words, expecting me to conform to their version of the truth.
By the way, even before being tested in grade two, my parents had to move me to a different school because I thought my teacher was an idiot. I wasn't pretentious about it like that, but I was certainly aware that she was holding me back and I was pissed. The teacher I got at the new school was the one who recommended I be tested. If it weren't for her and a teacher I had the following year who skipped two grades like you, I wouldn't be the who I am today.
Anyway, I'm going to read the rest of this thread and come back...
... and i'm back!
This thread is amazing. misterdogman, i agree with and relate to almost everything you say. i don't want to ego trip but my two younger brothers are also very intelligent (in differing ways than each other and I), so I've got to some from good genes. but like plants, good genes are less than half of the equation. my parents did an amazing job raising us (i partially attribute this to the fact that my older sister is mentally and physically handicapped) and we all lucked out in the early, most formative years of school with really good teachers. nature AND nurture.
Do i think high intellect is a good thing? yes. have i used it to it's full potential? no. do i feel guilty about this? no. I'm used to people being amazed at how much i know or how quickly i learn, but more often than not they follow it with "you should be doing this_____" or whatever it may be. FUCK THAT SHIT, and fuck them assholes. just because you're hung like a moose doesn't mean you gotta shoot porn. I do what i want, when i want, why and how i want, and for one simple reason; i don't owe anyone shit. i would rather die knowing i lived to serve my own purposes and die happy. my buddy put well when he said 'you can't take it with you anyway, so why stress over it'.
