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[Vindekarr]

Billy-that's BS. There's no such thing as impossible and whenever you tell yourself you can't do something, you're selling yourself short. Don't limit yourself-if you think it's impossible you'll never achieve it. Instead, try pushing yourself until you can achieve it-that's certainly worked for me.

 

Look at it this way: I was never very talented when it comes to racing games. I didn't have very good reflexes, my eyesight wass quite poor, and I just wasn't very... "talented" However I did enjoy them, and I've found that it doesn't matter whether you're talented or not, if you're driven enough and smart enough, you can make up for any shortfall. I mean, just look at me now, six years on, I got an invite last week from a pro-gaming league(A.R.L.) to drive for them next year, I've formerly been an online world-record holder, I'm a current national record holder, and I've even made forays into real racing. I pushed myself to exceed my limits and now look where it got me? you could probably get 20/20 more easily than you think.

Edited September 21, 2013 by Vindekarr

[Thor.]

Sigh gta v online has been delayed for two weeks, it'll greatly influence offline mode as well and the stock markets. I could see some realistic trading going on in between traders-players, like a small economy inside gta v :thumbsup:

Edited September 21, 2013 by Thor.

[billyro]

Billy-that's BS. There's no such thing as impossible and whenever you tell yourself you can't do something, you're selling yourself short. Don't limit yourself-if you think it's impossible you'll never achieve it. Instead, try pushing yourself until you can achieve it-that's certainly worked for me.

 

Look at it this way: I was never very talented when it comes to racing games. I didn't have very good reflexes, my eyesight wass quite poor, and I just wasn't very... "talented" However I did enjoy them, and I've found that it doesn't matter whether you're talented or not, if you're driven enough and smart enough, you can make up for any shortfall. I mean, just look at me now, six years on, I got an invite last week from a pro-gaming league(A.R.L.) to drive for them next year, I've formerly been an online world-record holder, I'm a current national record holder, and I've even made forays into real racing. I pushed myself to exceed my limits and now look where it got me? you could probably get 20/20 more easily than you think.

 

Wow, nice! That's a big achievement. :)

 

I wasn't doubting myself, I was just saying that I haven't played Morrowind enough recently to get all the questions right. I admit that I do doubt myself sometimes, but for the things I enjoy and strive to do my best in, I've done quite well. Like in year 12, where my graphics project was rated in the top 3 of Queensland, and was the only project to utilize animated 3D humans.

 

But for stuff that I don't enjoy, it's a different story. I simply have no motivation to even try in things that I find boring, which is probably why I did so bad in my first semester of university; it was absolute bull-crap and boring as hell, and I didn't even bother to try. That's my main problem: finding motivation to do things I have no interest in, 'cause that will probably help me a lot in life.

 

Ah well, the things I find enjoyable are what counts in my mind. Probably the lazy approach, but it works for me, I guess.

[Vindekarr]

Exactly. That's why I suggest finding a job you enjoy. If you're doing a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.

[Iv000]

 

Billy-that's BS. There's no such thing as impossible and whenever you tell yourself you can't do something, you're selling yourself short. Don't limit yourself-if you think it's impossible you'll never achieve it. Instead, try pushing yourself until you can achieve it-that's certainly worked for me.

 

Look at it this way: I was never very talented when it comes to racing games. I didn't have very good reflexes, my eyesight wass quite poor, and I just wasn't very... "talented" However I did enjoy them, and I've found that it doesn't matter whether you're talented or not, if you're driven enough and smart enough, you can make up for any shortfall. I mean, just look at me now, six years on, I got an invite last week from a pro-gaming league(A.R.L.) to drive for them next year, I've formerly been an online world-record holder, I'm a current national record holder, and I've even made forays into real racing. I pushed myself to exceed my limits and now look where it got me? you could probably get 20/20 more easily than you think.

 

Wow, nice! That's a big achievement. :smile:

 

I wasn't doubting myself, I was just saying that I haven't played Morrowind enough recently to get all the questions right. I admit that I do doubt myself sometimes, but for the things I enjoy and strive to do my best in, I've done quite well. Like in year 12, where my graphics project was rated in the top 3 of Queensland, and was the only project to utilize animated 3D humans.

 

But for stuff that I don't enjoy, it's a different story. I simply have no motivation to even try in things that I find boring, which is probably why I did so bad in my first semester of university; it was absolute bull-crap and boring as hell, and I didn't even bother to try. That's my main problem: finding motivation to do things I have no interest in, 'cause that will probably help me a lot in life.

 

Ah well, the things I find enjoyable are what counts in my mind. Probably the lazy approach, but it works for me, I guess.

 

 

Same here.

 

I learned one year's worth of programming in a day by going through youtube videos and going through code, which was enough for me to have the best grade in class through the whole year.

I worked for 50 hours at once, almost no breaks but I did sleep once, at a final project that we had to do in school (2D Animation), I was drawing everything by hand, pixel art, animated everything, ambient music and sound etc. In the end I got a C because the animation wasn't a "story" it was an infinite ambient loop. While the others did everything in Flash in an hour or two with simple shapes mostly or downloaded sprites, but they did have a story (by story i mean that stuff is happening over an extended period of time) so they got A's. Which shows how quality gets rejected easily over not following the exact rules.

 

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that doing things like these takes almost no effort whatsoever. But learning history, as an example, would take more effort than both of the things that I mentioned above combined. I want to learn how to do stuff with things that I have no interest in, my life would be so much easier if I did by now. Im trying to force myself, but I forget so easily what I learned its just meeeeh.

 

And now you see why I'm bad at school, I have still set myself to finish with the best grade I can this year. And I shall! Even if only to laugh at my school and classmates from my Uni in Whales :laugh:

[billyro]

 

 

Billy-that's BS. There's no such thing as impossible and whenever you tell yourself you can't do something, you're selling yourself short. Don't limit yourself-if you think it's impossible you'll never achieve it. Instead, try pushing yourself until you can achieve it-that's certainly worked for me.

 

Look at it this way: I was never very talented when it comes to racing games. I didn't have very good reflexes, my eyesight wass quite poor, and I just wasn't very... "talented" However I did enjoy them, and I've found that it doesn't matter whether you're talented or not, if you're driven enough and smart enough, you can make up for any shortfall. I mean, just look at me now, six years on, I got an invite last week from a pro-gaming league(A.R.L.) to drive for them next year, I've formerly been an online world-record holder, I'm a current national record holder, and I've even made forays into real racing. I pushed myself to exceed my limits and now look where it got me? you could probably get 20/20 more easily than you think.

 

Wow, nice! That's a big achievement. :smile:

 

I wasn't doubting myself, I was just saying that I haven't played Morrowind enough recently to get all the questions right. I admit that I do doubt myself sometimes, but for the things I enjoy and strive to do my best in, I've done quite well. Like in year 12, where my graphics project was rated in the top 3 of Queensland, and was the only project to utilize animated 3D humans.

 

But for stuff that I don't enjoy, it's a different story. I simply have no motivation to even try in things that I find boring, which is probably why I did so bad in my first semester of university; it was absolute bull-crap and boring as hell, and I didn't even bother to try. That's my main problem: finding motivation to do things I have no interest in, 'cause that will probably help me a lot in life.

 

Ah well, the things I find enjoyable are what counts in my mind. Probably the lazy approach, but it works for me, I guess.

 

 

Same here.

 

I learned one year's worth of programming in a day by going through youtube videos and going through code, which was enough for me to have the best grade in class through the whole year.

I worked for 50 hours at once, almost no breaks but I did sleep once, at a final project that we had to do in school (2D Animation), I was drawing everything by hand, pixel art, animated everything, ambient music and sound etc. In the end I got a C because the animation wasn't a "story" it was an infinite ambient loop. While the others did everything in Flash in an hour or two with simple shapes mostly or downloaded sprites, but they did have a story (by story i mean that stuff is happening over an extended period of time) so they got A's. Which shows how quality gets rejected easily over not following the exact rules.

 

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that doing things like these takes almost no effort whatsoever. But learning history, as an example, would take more effort than both of the things that I mentioned above combined. I want to learn how to do stuff with things that I have no interest in, my life would be so much easier if I did by now. Im trying to force myself, but I forget so easily what I learned its just meeeeh.

 

And now you see why I'm bad at school, I have still set myself to finish with the best grade I can this year. And I shall! Even if only to laugh at my school and classmates from my Uni in Whales :laugh:

 

 

Do you still have it? I'd like to see that project of yours (provided you're willing to share). :)

 

But yeah, the marking criteria is sometimes annoying like that. I've had similar experiences and its not fun. The project can look brilliant and exude talent, but if you didn't put a flower in it and the criteria said to, then you're stuffed. At least highschool was more lenient than university... shame it's not the other way around.

 

Also I learnt ancient history in highschool and it was boring and sucky. :P

The only reason I did it was because of ancient warfare! Woohoo! :D

 

Probably should have done drama.

[Ironman5000]

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[Iv000]

 

Do you still have it? I'd like to see that project of yours (provided you're willing to share). :smile:

 

But yeah, the marking criteria is sometimes annoying like that. I've had similar experiences and its not fun. The project can look brilliant and exude talent, but if you didn't put a flower in it and the criteria said to, then you're stuffed. At least highschool was more lenient than university... shame it's not the other way around.

 

Also I learnt ancient history in highschool and it was boring and sucky. :tongue:

The only reason I did it was because of ancient warfare! Woohoo! :D

 

Probably should have done drama.

 

Yeah I just found it. I'll PM it to you. I'll tack on a story so you know what its all about, expect a few personal things btw :P You asked for it.

 

I obviously don't like it now, its 2 years old and I have developed a more serious art style and way of thinking.

 

 

Lol you just reminded me of another stupid thing that just happened a week ago.

 

So this teacher who has me Web Design, she tells us that we will "repeat everything that we learned in the past year" which was almost nothing, and instead of ACTUALLY repeating stuff she linked us to a HTML5 template and told us to change it.

 

And I did, probably the only one who did it the same day that she gave us that task. I told her I'm done, she came over to my computer to look at it. The first thing that she did wasn't complimenting me that I was first or that my design looks good or that my color schemes fit, no the first thing she did was complain why the text is in English and not in Croatian.

 

So I changed it ALL to Croatian while we had the class and I was done. But she didn't bother looking again. Then she went through the class to look at what the others did and she only complained at how bad their color palettes are and how its not "designer" enough. Yet she never taught us color theory, proper design theory or anything like that. I know how to do all that because I was teaching myself at home, but my classmates didn't, so now they know exactly the things that they learned in school. Which is almost nothing.

 

This is the kind of education you get in Croatia.

None.

[Vindekarr]

The problem I had at school wasn't a bad education system, it was running headlong into a wall of prejudice. I have Asperger's Syndrome. AS is a very complex condition and can have a slew of different effects that vary from person to person. For me it's always been confined to sociological problems, namely I get jumpy, even panicky in crowds, have trouble trusting new people, and general suffer from quite severe social anxiety. Asperger's can be hard to live with, but it's quite manageable. People with it also tend to band together-my primary school art teacher and my shift supervisor at work both have the same condition.

 

The problem isn't Asperger's-I can handle anxiety very easily. The problem is how some people react when you mention the word "syndrome" Now, I have a very high IQ-which isn't unusual for someone with ASD. The problem is, Syndrome is a very dirty word and for all the people who do know what AS is like, there's also a lot of people who'll treat you like a vegetable simply because, in their ignorant little mind, you are somehow less of a person for your "defect". That was my story all the way through school, I had to change highschools twice because of the so-called wall of ignorance, it's a story I've heard again and again from people like me.

 

Part of the reason I hold myself to such high standards is because of that treatment. I spent a fair chunk of my life having to be twice as capable just to make even, and I've learned first-hand just how much of a difference drive makes. When I was 12, someone told me I would be a "burden on society" for the rest of my life and that I would never be able to get a job. Well, I now make six figures doing a job I genuinely enjoy, I've taken one of my hobbies to the point of a national-level pro league, and I've got a house, a girlfriend and three very smelly dogs. You don't need to have limits if you don't want to. If you push yourself hard enough, you'd be amazed where you can end up.

[Iv000]

The problem I had at school wasn't a bad education system, it was running headlong into a wall of prejudice. I have Asperger's Syndrome. AS is a very complex condition and can have a slew of different effects that vary from person to person. For me it's always been confined to sociological problems, namely I get jumpy, even panicky in crowds, have trouble trusting new people, and general suffer from quite severe social anxiety. Asperger's can be hard to live with, but it's quite manageable. People with it also tend to band together-my primary school art teacher and my shift supervisor at work both have the same condition.

 

The problem isn't Asperger's-I can handle anxiety very easily. The problem is how some people react when you mention the word "syndrome" Now, I have a very high IQ-which isn't unusual for someone with ASD. The problem is, Syndrome is a very dirty word and for all the people who do know what AS is like, there's also a lot of people who'll treat you like a vegetable simply because, in their ignorant little mind, you are somehow less of a person for your "defect". That was my story all the way through school, I had to change highschools twice because of the so-called wall of ignorance, it's a story I've heard again and again from people like me.

 

Part of the reason I hold myself to such high standards is because of that treatment. I spent a fair chunk of my life having to be twice as capable just to make even, and I've learned first-hand just how much of a difference drive makes. When I was 12, someone told me I would be a "burden on society" for the rest of my life and that I would never be able to get a job. Well, I now make six figures doing a job I genuinely enjoy, I've taken one of my hobbies to the point of a national-level pro league, and I've got a house, a girlfriend and three very smelly dogs. You don't need to have limits if you don't want to. If you push yourself hard enough, you'd be amazed where you can end up.

 

Well hello fellow aspie.

 

I didn't know you have AS too, your post for some reason made me smile :D

 

My worst thing was social situations as well. This forum was in fact my biggest "social life" until a not long ago. I said "was" because I have improved in that aspect hugely, it was horribly hard and difficult and people had to push me like I was a dying animal, but I eventually kind of learned to not die while talking through Skype with someone or while taking a walk outside. I still become a very different person when I'm in social situations, feeling most comfortable and myself in my "safe spots", which is my room/house or surrounded by people that I know very well/trust.

 

It's made my social life kind of horribly difficult, I do a lot of simple stupid mistakes in all social situations and I get s#*! handed to me because of them. My worst one being that I don't know when I offend people or not, when I'm comfortable enough around someone I'll just blabber things and I may sometimes say something that he/she finds offensive but I don't even realize that. I have created a few conflicts with my friends and my boyfriend like that already.

 

What I hate very much lately is that it has become a thing to laugh at. There's people who think that it's just an attention seeking thing or just something I can use as an excuse when something bad happens. I want to make one thing clear, I'm not officially diagnosed yet because my dad didn't want me to have a diagnose of a "disorder" because he thought it would impact my life negatively, by doing that he actually made my life more difficult since I had to learn all the rules of socializing by myself, I have major problems in all aspects of life and I don't truly know how to fix them yet. I turned 18 two months ago, which made him tell me that now since I'm an adult, I can do whatever I want and that if I want to get diagnosed, I can. Which is what I'm doing, in a week I'm going to the capital to get diagnosed by a set of specialists (psychologist, psychiatrist, defectologist, logopedist).

 

So basically because my dad wanted to protect my name, I now can't use a laptop in class even though I can't read my own handwriting, I can't ask my teacher to explain her horribly vague simple questions to me and I fail most of my Croatian tests, I can't have extra time while writing essays even though I need it etc.

 

Now, the fact that it has become a "thing" is the problem. I know that I have issues, but so many people denied that I have anything and that I'm just making it up, it's making me scared that I actually am and that I in fact don't have anything, I'm just stupid. I have an IQ of 132 last time I checked with my psychologist, and she diagnosed me with depression and social anxiety and told me to go to a psychiatrist, but because of my dad I couldn't go and now I'm kind of afraid that I'm just really stupid and searching for an excuse for something, because every single person has been telling me that and it's making my head hurt.

 

The information is easily accessible to everyone on the internet and people misusing it for their own good has given Aspergers, ADHD, Dyslexia etc a bad name.

 

I'm afraid that I'm one of those too. I have plenty, if not too much, evidence that I actually do have AS (I had plenty of mental breakdowns caused by flashes or too much information in my head [sensory overload], my handwriting and understanding of texts just adds to those things, social problems and many more), but I'm just so afraid that I'll turn out to be a simple idiot who can't live life properly.

 

Sorry for sharing so much personal details, I didn't mean to, I just think this is somewhat relevant since you mentioned AS. I'm kinda hoping from a response from you, since I never met other aspies who are over 18.

 

Dont ask me how this post managed to turn from happy to sad. This always happens ._.