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I wonder...
Could it be that I'm a 'relatively stupid' person who's learned to think like an 'intelligent' person through early, frequent, sustained exposure to 'intelligent' people and their mental products? And that this accounts for my slowness in thinking and writing? I seem to be able to come up with a similar level of 'quality of thought' as regular 'intelligent' people do, but it seems to take me considerably longer to do so. Could this be because it simply takes me a huge extra effort to be clever and erudite and deep and whatnot?
Putting lots of stuff in quotation marks here because I'm groping to express something I don't have quite the right words for. 'Intelligence' in the above sense, for instance, would be something rather more fluid and vague than the common sense idea of 'intelligence'.
Could it be that I'm a 'relatively stupid' person who's learned to think like an 'intelligent' person through early, frequent, sustained exposure to 'intelligent' people and their mental products? And that this accounts for my slowness in thinking and writing? I seem to be able to come up with a similar level of 'quality of thought' as regular 'intelligent' people do, but it seems to take me considerably longer to do so. Could this be because it simply takes me a huge extra effort to be clever and erudite and deep and whatnot?
Putting lots of stuff in quotation marks here because I'm groping to express something I don't have quite the right words for. 'Intelligence' in the above sense, for instance, would be something rather more fluid and vague than the common sense idea of 'intelligence'.
