Abusing the rights of the vulnerable

Liz

Yes I have had brain surgery. At least I now get treated more worthily of what I deserve and not undermined by bullies and cowards who are insecure and not happy with their inferior capabilities.

I was not going to let public service workers who are intellectually weak and those control freaks in authority that were psychologically warped decide what I could and couldn’t do, or what was best for me especially if they think brain damage mean less intelligent, and have to be corrupt like Gordon Brown to win.

Most people I get on with are positive and pleased for me now that I have got what I deserve, however there is a minority who are rather envious of my progress but then these are often people who are insecure because of their lack of quality and achievement, and consequently expect preferential treatment and rely on beggars’ belief.

Anyone who cannot accept the truth about me for what I am has got a problem.

Take a look by going to

http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/2001/2/27/691097.html

Liz - you sound as if you expect Bonehead to be treated as subnormal just because (s)he has brain damage. Well (s)he deserves to be treated at least the same as all ordinary people which is better than (s)he was. Or is this beyond your IQ?

It seems like there have been many exceptionally intelligent people who have been treated like dirt in their life but later proved their worth.

Although not a psychiatric condition, but many brilliant people have a history of epilepsy, and because it is a brain condition, it is relevant when discussing superior brain functioning. There are at least two theoretical possibilities why epilepsy may have a beneficial effect on one’s thinking. Firstly the electric discharges that occur during an epileptic fit may cause flashes of new ideas. Secondly, recurrent epilepsy or the transient hypoxia it can engender might fortuitously cause minor damage to those areas of the brain that inhibit thinking, and this disinhibition of thought processes may enhance creative thinking. Famous people who suffered from epilepsy include: Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Charles Dickens, George Handel and Hector Berlioz.

It seems like Bonehead has experienced enough of this stereotyping...

There are an astounding number of epileptics who are now confirmed geniuses. In fact, it has been proven that up to 35 percent of people with temporal lobe epilepsy have a genius level IQ, which is significantly higher than in the general population. No wonder such people are mocked. That's a pretty threatening statistic. Note also, that of those with temporal lobe epilepsy, we are up to almost forty or fifty percent more likely than the general population to commit suicide and something like four out of five people with temporal lobe epilepsy has made some type of suicide attempt or suicidal gesture and suffer from depression. I don't think it's crazy that we're speaking of. I think this stems from living in a world that cannot accept a person because they are different and they are different in a way that is shiny and new. People like Lewis Carroll or Sylvia Plath were and sometimes still are, so universally hated and yet loved that one wonders what that is about. In life, they were pretty much hated and treated poorly. In death, they are revered and mythologized.

Too often, we stereotype and assume, and one such assumption seems to surround the mentally ill. And other, those who have neurological illnesses like epilepsy that are not mental illnesses, yet the ignorance of frankly, far too many, label epileptics as such. Which is not to say that there is something awful about being mentally sick or manic depressive; there isn't. What bothers many though is the ignorance, and then, not only are they stigmatized, but it's the wrong stigma, which is just dumb and really aggravating. If you're going to marginalize someone, at least put them in the right category. If you're going to label anyone, be smart enough to know which label and where you can stick it, because I've got a few of my own for those who undermine others and know exactly what you can do with your labels.

I do agree with you, but you do come accross as arrogant in your belief in your "giftedness".and that undermines your argument. What if you weren't? Why should it make a difference what your IQ is as to the respect people should treat you with?
(The other thing that struck me is that you "used" to be epileptic. Did you have a brain op? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious!)

Gifted? Gifted in what way? Welcome to the real World. Us average people have to live with being stabbed in the back by employers too.
Sound like maybe your attitiude had something to do with it........