People do not grow more stupid, just slower.
It happens to most of the people, but some get it earlier and some get it later.
Something like that...
OP, my father has noticed the same thing about me, and I think he's right, basically what he says is that my RAM is full with useless internet shit and there's no room left for really important stuff. I suggest you take a week break from any entertainment sites, use the net simply as a tool when you need something. You'll have most of your actual thinking abilities back after that. And you won't want to spend so much time on the internet too.
Your mind needs to work, not absorb info and procrastinate. Maybe you'll even get proper good emotions back from being a dull inside-yourself-all-the-time guy.
[editline]5th December 2010[/editline]
Having said that, I'm going to take my own advice.
Holy shit shut up, You're not 80 years old.
You're probably just having a hard time which is stressing you out making it harder for you to focus, and the more you dwell on the past the more you convince yourself you are inferior.
[QUOTE=Master117;26486283]Every day I have this feeling that I am unable to think as well as I was a few years ago. I look back at my high school career and I look at some of the papers I wrote and how well formulated they are with clear and concise language that conveyed a huge amount of emotion or information.
I also look back and remember how well I was at communicating my thoughts to other people and getting my ideas out. I used to give really good and constructive advice to all of my friends when they were in need. I loved doing that. I loved helping my friends.
Besides that, I feel my memory is failing me. My short term to long term transition memory is absolutely horrible.
Lately things have been different. I feel it's harder to get my ideas across. Reading the way this thread is written may not give much hint to the extent on how I feel. The thing is, I feel it more in when I verbally speak. I used to be a master of words verbally. I used to be able to say the right things at the right time.
Now I feel like every single thing that comes out of my mouth is fucking retarded. I feel stupid. I try to make a joke and it's so unfunny that people contract cancer from it. I try to communicate an idea, only to leave the other party scratching their heads. The only form of communication I seem to have gotten better at is choosing the right words. I seem to have developed the ability to choose the right language, allowing my words to manipulate others into thinking they they have the better deal, when in reality the choice of words I used gives me the final advantage.
At one point, people used to come to me for all sorts of advice, whether it was about relationships, or some family issue. I used to be able to get down to them at an emotional, yet logical level and come up with a step by step solution to solve, or even lessen the problem. To this day, people still ask me for advice. The only difference is I have no clue how to give it. I don't know ways to relate to their problems anymore and have no way of imagining the situation they are in in order to formulate even a basic solution. It's terrible, especially with my ex who deals with chronic pain that is so horrible it makes it hard for her to deal with everything else. No doctors can figure out the cause or an effective treatment even after 2 years. At one point I would have been able to help her deal with her pain and situation a lot better, but now I can barely formulate a sentence that even touches on her problem.
Going to my memory problems, it seems that I have a much harder time recalling information that someone [I]just[/I] told me. For example, someone calls my work wanting to speak with the boss. I ask who it is, and they give me a name and give me a brief description of what they need to speak to my boss about. I take about 20 steps to my boss's desk and by the time I get there, I forget part of the name and have no idea why they called.
Another way I feel like my brain is failing me is when I am around higher authorities or people who are smarter than me. A few years ago, I could place myself on a similar level and not feel intimidated by those who had more authority than me. Now, I completely become stupid when I am around such people. My memory is worse, my learning abilities decrease, and my attention to detail just drops.
Basically I feel that I am becoming more stupid with age. Maybe there is something physically wrong with me, I don't know. I scheduled a doctors appointment about it, but never got a confirmation. I just wish there was a way to boost my abilities to what they were before.
Right now I am 20 years old. I'm taking a break from college for various other reasons. I am staying busy though. I volunteer every Friday at the local rescue squad and am training to become an EMT. I am also starting a full-time security position for a popular strip mall in the area.[/QUOTE]
It's the conversion where you realise you now know that you don't know everything.
I feel the same way too, but mostly because I have higher expectations than I did a couple years back. The expectations never get met and therefore, I have very little motivation.
Do you feel more stupid regarding the information you know or how you process it?
If it's knowledge then you're just realising that you don't know everything, which is good and might make you feel stupid.
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