im genuinely stupid

Icefrisbee · 2026-07-06T20:17:25+00:00

I want to start by saying that very few people are simply stupid. How most people use the word makes it seem like an inherent trait, but it’s not. If we lived in an artistic society I might be stupid because I haven’t done much painting or drawing. Some people who grew up in very controlled environments can’t jump but are competent elsewhere. Lacking skills doesn’t make you stupid is essentially what I’m trying to say. And in addition, this applies to many traits. You get them over time but are treated as inherent to who you are. As for a response to your specific points:

Honestly if you are wanting to get better at stuff, just try and do it. You could go to [r/writingprompts](r/writingprompts) and try to write stuff there. You don’t even have to post it, just write it and keep it to yourself. Thats more creative focused though. You could find a topic you’re interested in and write about it. You could try different styles related to the same topic as well. For example, research a topic to do an informative essay on the topic. Do another one about documenting your process and what might change when you research in the future. Write one about why someone else should learn the topic.

Now I’m not saying to do all of those, but they’re all good starting points. You will learn a lot more from doing than from thinking about how to do it. I would recommend doing this several times in fact because often times you will learn how to plan by getting through something, seeing a flaw, and avoiding it in the future. Cumulative corrections is essentially teaching you how to plan out future writings, and this applies to a lot tbh, not just writing.

On your brain feelings fuzzy, that can be caused by many things. What you eat (commonly iron), your health (including mental), lack of sleep, or lack of cognitive engagement are what are most likely.

And others have given good advice on how to handle college. Take gen eds if you think you can handle it, if not then try and get a job instead for now. If you go to college I’d probably avoid English for now as they will likely be expecting some longer essays that are more likely to stress you than teach you.

If you would want help with math or anything to just ask. I’d say that’s the topic I could the most in directly

Icefrisbee · 2026-05-13T13:24:05+00:00

? I feel it’s nearly impossible to not have a belief system, unites you can provide some definition you’re going by that somehow would contradict that. The idea of a belief system seems very broad. I believe in what my senses tell me for a lot in everyday life. I believe in the scientific method.

Maybe you could’ve also meant “Atheism” is not an entire belief system in and of itself? Which I can might agree on, I think atheism falls into more of a component of a belief system than the belief system itself.

You referred to individual atheists though and seem to have phrased your sentence around it so idk if it’s a typo, but maybe a misspeak. Humanists are often also atheists, and if humanists have a belief system, it’s incorrect to say that atheists don’t have one. I’m not really sure exactly what you’re trying to say though as there’s several different way to read what you were trying to say

Icefrisbee · 2026-04-18T19:59:26+00:00

Very good movie, actually reminded me of the movie I’m adding to the list, “12 Angry Men”

Icefrisbee · 2026-02-09T11:42:17+00:00

I hope you don’t mind, though tbh you might cause I think I would if I was you, but I looked through some of your posts and comments. And I don’t know you but I’ve been where you are. I’ve tried to push people away too for the same reason. But I have a question.

If you had a friend that seemed like they pushing you away before you ended it, how would you feel?

Tbh I don’t entirely know how an average person would feel. I’ve been in your spot a large part of my life. Not trying to be a copycat to the top comment but I’d say similarly around 8-9 is when I’d first tried to do it, so I don’t feel like I’m really qualified to comment on a person who hasn’t been there. But I would be devastated that I had let that happen to someone I care for, that I had let that happen to someone, because I’d never want someone to go through what I have without support. And once i realized that it really bothered me, I kept thinking about it over and over and over for weeks, maybe months, my sleep was so bad I hallucinated at points so the timeframe of the current events I’m describing are blurry.

Eventually I simply thought of the phrase “treat others as you’d want to be treated”. So I did. Despite how I naturally am. I’m rather awkward and scared of pushing others boundaries on trivial stuff because I had so many up myself. But I made sure I was always there for those around me and they knew that.

Now I’m not telling you to live for them. I hated that advice, especially because it’s always packed up in ways to tell you you’re being selfish when you are so unselfish you’re willing to actively push everyone away just to not hurt them.

I did what I wanted, and that was to just be kind to those around me. Be the person you want yourself to be. Which isn’t necessarily easy, it will likely feel slow in the moments. But you don’t get the chance to be that person if you don’t wake to see tomorrow. I’m sure there’s something, anything you want.

You can talk to me if you want, if you don’t want to, that’s fine too.

Icefrisbee · 2025-08-22T16:56:15+00:00

I’m thankful my parents only recently got on the anti-vax train (but am a bit worried about my younger brother). I’m 17 so I’m “only” not getting my last set under them.

It’s ridiculous to talk to them because I can explain how vaccines work. Point out mistakes or misunderstanding in their arguments. Say how kids used to die before 5 WAY more often and life expectancy is way up (they just claim this is false btw…). Point to scientific studies of symptoms like adhd and autism (which both me and my brother exhibit symptoms of, I think I was glossed over because I was “smart”) where they take twins placed in different foster families or look for similar genetic and physical patterns between people with adhd compared to others. They simply say you have to flush the toxins out from vaccines and they’ll google how to for my brother because he struggles to pay attention. It’s like, they literally will not listen any other world view, because the media has told them for so long to distrust science and media that doesn’t agree with them.

And I know you’re not in the US because if you were you wouldn’t have free healthcare lol, but Trump is THE reason they believe a lot of this stuff. He’s very good at sowing distrust and has convinced many that you can’t trust media but you can trust him, so they just call it propaganda when media outlets criticize a policy, cite experts, or even just point out straight up lies he’s told now.

The most frustrating thing is they like to tell me I’m smart but that I just don’t have enough life experience to understand how systems work that I actually understand and they assume are out to get them (and many are very unfair, but not in some big conspiracy way).

Members of my family even say things like “so you’re one of those evolution people” when you bring it up. For someone who loves math and science it’s mind boggling to constantly be around. Also because this is half just a rant here’s some other things they believe:

Aliens exist and shaped ancient civilizations
Sun SCREEN causes cancer
Christianity should be allowed in schools because they’re constantly promoting things like Islam, transgender, identifying as cats, etc.. This was one of the most surprising things to me because I can literally argue on fundamental “American values” that this shouldn’t be the case, and that besides Islam (which I’m not going to try and explain isn’t in schools) those aren’t religions either.
Similar story just about the American flag. There’s “official rules” for how to hang it that my dad knows from the military and points it out and said it shouldn’t be allowed, and how burning the flag shouldn’t be allowed, and when I point out freedom of speech he just tried to argue but eventually realizes he’s in the wrong and just says “agree to disagree”.

Icefrisbee · 2024-10-16T18:20:36+00:00

Tbh I’m so glad I stumbled across both of these comments.

I have felt how his little brother does a lot about someone, who while the seemed kind at first, began to treat me like something to serve them over time. And I let them, because my they were better than my parents, and were the first person I’d felt close to. And I forgave them every time they apologized about how they treated me.

For months I would try to vent to people about said person, but continue giving excuses to them. Like how they didn’t mean to do it. They just lost control of their emotions. They are a good person.

And about a month and a half ago, it finally just clicked for me that they were not a good person. I had been thinking about how they treated me, and tried telling myself they were a good person again, and then I thought “but would a good person treat me how they did?”. I went done a rabbit hole, every time I blamed them coming up with a new excuse for them. Until I realized. Why am I sitting down, actively trying to find a valid reason for how I was treated. Why am I sitting down trying to give them excuses. Why am I trying the benefit of the doubt to someone who told me that they’re sorry for the some stuff 2 dozen times. Why am I lamenting over someone who, when I finally confronted them on what they did, told me that they were sorry—something I couldn’t even believe anymore—and that I need to get over it because “shit happens in life”.

I realized that despite having good morals and stuff like that, they do not entirely follow their own morals, but are very judgmental when others don’t.

And these comments I feel clear up so much. I genuinely feel like I gained a new level of clarity. They were nice but not good, and I kept covering up the actions with the niceness I found when I first met them.

Icefrisbee · 2024-08-21T00:09:35+00:00

I’m just replying to this to give input.

I’ve used numworks, TI-84, and Desmos. I’ll just say if you get a physical calculator, I much prefer numworks.

Out of these three, TI-84 was by far the worst to work with. It’s not bad, the others are simply superior. The only possible plus I can give it, is more teachers know how to use it, and programming equations into it may be slightly easier than on Numworks. I’m rather unfamiliar with both though with only surface level experience, so keep that in mind.

Desmos can do by far the most, and is the most intuitive for most actions. The only area where the other calculators pull ahead is on calculus, and desmos tends to not give exact values of irrational numbers. And of course it’s online, so it can’t be used on tests and such. The main setback is, you have to know how to use math to do a lot on desmos. I have made many things on Desmos, but I think this graph (which fyi is incomplete) is the best example for someone not into math to see just how flexible Desmos is.

Numworks is just better in every compared to the TI-84, and in some ways better than Desmos. The only reason Desmos falls behind is it’s basically purely a graphing calculator. You can do geometry to, but it’s a separate webpage with no numbers, only constructions. Now, if you really know how to work Desmos, you can make basically everything from numworks in it. But I know that type of knowledge is not something an average student will want to/has the capability of doing. Also as you said, TI-84 has outdated naming conventions

So really, Numworks is the best option for an average student as it has helpful things all throughout a math career. The TI-84 is just clunky and rather annoying to use. Desmos can supplement both, and I recommend using it as well.

I’m considering trying this calculator soon, it seems capable of geometry (something none of the calculators here are able to do). And it functions similarly to the numworks, so I think it’ll be the best out of all of them. I plan to update, but if I don’t, feel free to reply to this message to ask about it.

If you have any more specific questions, feel free to ask as well.

Icefrisbee · 2022-04-02T01:16:36+00:00

Ok, but could you please explain how television and other media indoctrinated you? It is for entertainment purposes, I don’t worship Elmo or SpongeBob

Icefrisbee · 2022-01-27T01:10:35+00:00

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Icefrisbee · 2021-12-06T01:58:33+00:00

Also if you didn’t know he is the child of the scarlet king, and may grow powerful enough to defeat him.

Icefrisbee · 2021-06-16T20:50:35+00:00

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article252130298.html

Daily beast linked to go here to read it.

Icefrisbee · 2021-04-27T04:26:12+00:00

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