FWIW, I think you're super smart. You don't make me feel stupid either, but does it make you feel any better at all that I feel pretty ineffectual in comparison to you regarding any communications that are not long, ramblely, written contemplations of how clever I am? Seriously, I can go on and on about how smart I am, but ask me a question aloud, and I am helpless, ask me to be concise, and I fail, ask me to quickly grasp a complex concept . . . and I'll get back to you in a couple days.
I don't do any of those things you say
Does this make you feel less intelligent? Because I don't think the fact that I do those things is evidence of my intelligence, just evidence of the way I think, or look at the world, or the way my brain analyzes the world. How well I do those things is perhaps evidence of my intelligence, but I do believe very firmly intelligence is a singular thing. I sound sarcastic when I say I am a snowflake, but I sound that way only because I want to point out how special I am while at the same time fending off the inevitable insight that I'm not special at all. I actually *do* believe that everyone is unique. Some people are smart, and some are stupid, but everyone is smart and stupid in his own way. I may be pretty and I may be ugly, but I am not one or the other because I'm taller than you, or because my face is longer than yours, or because my hips are wider and my feet are bigger and my eyelids droop more than yours.
I don't do the things you like about my writing,
You mean you don't do them on purpose, right? If they're there, whether you did them on purpose or not, the quality of your writing remains the same.
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I don't do any of those things you say
Does this make you feel less intelligent? Because I don't think the fact that I do those things is evidence of my intelligence, just evidence of the way I think, or look at the world, or the way my brain analyzes the world. How well I do those things is perhaps evidence of my intelligence, but I do believe very firmly intelligence is a singular thing. I sound sarcastic when I say I am a snowflake, but I sound that way only because I want to point out how special I am while at the same time fending off the inevitable insight that I'm not special at all. I actually *do* believe that everyone is unique. Some people are smart, and some are stupid, but everyone is smart and stupid in his own way. I may be pretty and I may be ugly, but I am not one or the other because I'm taller than you, or because my face is longer than yours, or because my hips are wider and my feet are bigger and my eyelids droop more than yours.
I don't do the things you like about my writing,
You mean you don't do them on purpose, right? If they're there, whether you did them on purpose or not, the quality of your writing remains the same.