> I am still trying to figure out how to clearly, effectively and consistently communicate on the internet when I am being straight up serious and when I am kid

> I am still trying to figure out how to clearly, effectively and consistently communicate on the internet when I am being straight up serious and when I am kidding. I have yet to figure out an internet version of The Dripping Sarcasm Voice. That fact sometimes gets me into all kinds of trouble. This is what /s is for. I agree with the comments saying that this is quite self-congratulatory and does not have must useful substance. > With that incident in my past and still weighing heavily on my mind, in high school, I was painfully aware that many of my classmates simply did not have the background knowledge I had and this gap in knowledge about the world was growing with every single passing day as I continued to take yet more advanced classes. I think that by the author's metric I would be considered "very smart". I've taken and done well in many fancy classes. However the type of "smart" that comes from classes is worth a lot less than one would think, and I think that a lot of us learn that lesson much later in life than we would like. There is a great scene in the movie "Captain Fantastic" where the eldest in a homeschooled family lashes out and says "I don't know anything! If it doesn't come from a book I don't know it at all!" This character was accepted to all of the best universities, had a strong grasp of physics and philosophy, etc. But, after a series of awkward social encounters, realized that they had some deficiencies.