maladaptive traits

• All About This Forum by Marty Klein, 11/16/98
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    • Controlling for other health risk factors by Mr. J, 12/22/98
      
      

A brilliant observation!  It makes explicit and general much  of my own experience in life... beginning with a category   on my early report cards entitled "Works and plays well     with others  __"  (the space consistantly was filled with   a grade lower than those for any academic subject, all of   which were high.)  By the age of eight years, my main       interests outside of school were quite different than those  of my peers--I had felt shocked and/or appalled by most of  what I saw around me for a few years at that point, despite  a comfortable home and up-bringing--primarily spiritual.    Three years later I was reading the complete works of       Aristotle, and with increasing alienation from the age of   puberty, added explorations of religions as well as of      magic and the occult to my continued extra-curricular       readings in philosophy.  It would be fair to summarise      further epistemological development as becoming familiar    with what the average American knew little or nothing about  while not developing much skill or interest in what was     commonly learned and done rather easily.

• We seem to have strayed afield by Mr. J, 1/8/99