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Reply: Exploring Love

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Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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Yes, fine, guilty. I was lurking to see if anything I said had gotten through to you other than "J is in the wrong," and I'm posting this now because I feel very disappointed.

You: "I think that everyone here is smart and knowledgeable, and that's why I make the judgements about other people that I do."

That doesn't make the judgments right. If indeed we are all smart and knowledgeable, it doesn't make us superior to anyone.

By your judgment of who is smart and who is not, LLT, I am in the "not smart" department. I didn't get a science degree in college. I dropped out of a master's program without finishing, by choice rather than being forced to by illness, and I went to my second choice of graduate school because my first choice rejected me. At the age of 32, I'm working in a non-supervisory, hourly wage, ground-floor job in a field that does not require degrees of the vast majority of practitioners, with people who have been slandered with far worse labels than I ever will... people who are labeled stupid, idiots, uneducable, incapable, the R-word, by others who have decided they are not smart enough.

So, no, I don't tolerate labels like "not smart enough" being thrown at me. And I don't tolerate them being thrown at anyone else, either, because I have seen first-hand how much those labels tangibly harm people.

You're wrong about the reason I reacted so strongly. I reacted that way not because my self-esteem is supposedly good, but because those words - not smart enough, not good enough - are hurtful and continue to damage my self-esteem to this day. So many people have called me the dumb one, and continue to call me the dumb one, that I've been convinced for a long time that it's true. I KNOW it's wrong that that's been done to me, but you should know as well as anyone that one doesn't just recover from and ignore abusive words overnight. Seeing you post those words in print, seeing you hold up that type of judgment as something OK to do, is why I reacted so strongly. I hoped posting my raw feelings, rather than doing what the board has since informed me I should have done instead and shut up for several days before saying anything, would let you see that judgments like the one you wrote cause real pain. It seems that what got through instead was "J is wrong," and it seems that that's the majority opinion around here at the moment.View Thread

Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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If you want honesty, read on. If you want hugs and agreement, stop reading this comment...

Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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This is not about the tech problem. Please read this and let me know I'm heard.

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What happens most often, lately, is that I will be on the home page of the Self Harm...

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Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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It has happened again just now (2/2/12, 5:07 p.m. Central time) when I entered this...

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I HAVE 9, though. And I just got it again. WebMD, please do not dismiss me!

Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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Caprice, I ONLY ever get that on the WebMD page. I know it's not something WebMD would...

Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important before. -- The Doctor (as written by Steven Moffat)

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