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Tobin S.

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4. The best advice I ever got but only started taking recently

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 04:44 PM

Oct 2013

was given to me by an English teacher at a vocational school I went to so I could avoid real academics my junior and senior years of high school.

She asked me if I was going to go to college after high school and I told her that I was not. I thought it was kind of a silly question since nobody that I knew that went to vocational school was going to go to college.

She then told me, "Don't sell yourself short."

She saw something in me that I couldn't at the time and wouldn't for many years afterward.

You've got it in you to do some great things. You're a good man and you're intelligent and well spoken. Don't sell yourself short.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] Tobin S. Oct 2013 OP

Great question. I don't think many "normal" people understand just how hard this is. Denninmi Oct 2013 #1

Thank you for the amazing post, Denninmi. Tobin S. Oct 2013 #2

Ah, I just call 'em like I see 'em. Denninmi Oct 2013 #3

The best advice I ever got but only started taking recently Tobin S. Oct 2013 #4

Checked myself in. Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author Tobin S. Oct 2013 #6

Can I ask you a couple of ?'s. Denninmi Oct 2013 #7

I believed it would help. Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #9

Yes, thank you. Denninmi Oct 2013 #10

re the iron fist Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #13

You are a "class act all around." hunter Oct 2013 #19

Bravery seems a fine quality, the expectation that the ill display it? Maybe not HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Tobin S. Oct 2013 #11

As I said I'm not against bravery, I'm not for cowardice. HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #12

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Sort of, though I'm questioning uncritical acceptance of culturally defined 'good' things HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #20

Most of my life I've been a dysfuntional person in normal society. hunter Oct 2013 #21

Generally speaking, many of us would expect mentally ill to not conform to cultural expectations HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #22

There's clearly an autistic sort of *something* from one of my grandfathers... hunter Oct 2013 #23

Hunter, I think a lot of what you said is spot on. Denninmi Oct 2013 #24

I've never been brave. That's what it feels like to me. hunter Oct 2013 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Tobin S. Oct 2013 #17

Thank you. hunter Oct 2013 #18