In terms of "smartness", or ones capability of gaining intellegence and speed of doing so, I'm as smart as they come. I do take college classes (way back from the age of 14) but only because I need to have a high degree or else I have little credibility and whatnot, having never actually completed any of the grand things I have begun.
My intellegence quotient (IQ) states that I am a literal genius, though I say I am merely a semi-genius due to the fact that there are enough liars out there that I wouldn't be believed otherwise. Or I would be bombarded with a large stream of pointless math problems which I am supposedly able to complete in 5 seconds. Stupid stereotypical 'genius'.
Of course, everything comes with a price. In exchange for my genius, I have poor emotional control. In exchange for my intellegence, I have not the ability to naturally learn 'body language' and have to struggle to understand such things as 'puns' and proper 'humor'. In exchange for my smarts (my ability to rapidly learn), I am bound by a figurative chain, an obsession, to programming. I am forced by my obsession to work tirelessly day after day, though my case is mild compared to what could've been...
I am an Asperger's child, one with Asperger's Syndrome. It is a mild form of Autism, a defect present at birth. It affects the way I think and makes me unable to be accepted by my general age group, simply labled 'weird' most of the time. You will never completely understand me. My own mother, despite years of trying, hasn't entirely learned my 'language', so to speak. But it does have advantages... ... ...
