If you have a mental handicap, my comment was not directed toward you and I hope you took no offense.
There are people with dwarfism, and there are people who are just short. The latter don't have a physical abnormality, but they still aren't as tall as tall people.
The way I'm reading this, you've discovered that yourself and a few of your friends are tall, and now you think the world is divided into tall people and dwarves.
It's more like my friends and I are of average height but discovered that through little effort we can dunk a basketball.
Then a very short dude comes by and says he's vertically handicapped and that I don't know what I'm talking about because he can't dunk a basketball to save his life.
"I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it."
If you want to now adjust that claim and say "some can do it", you better be able to tell us how to distinguish.
I'm convinced anyone can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.
Here is how I am comfortable revising it for the offended sticklers in this thread:
I'm convinced anyone (of typical mental capacity) can do this and the major thing stopping them is their belief that they can't do it.
If you can't respond to questions without getting defensive, please grow up.
This thread has given me more karma than your entire account has received in its existence. I think it's clear there is a vocal minority of people who are posting a half-dozen comments each in this thread while the vast majority at least don't find what I'm saying as offensive as you apparently do.
Oh my goodness! What was the point of saying that, really?
>I think it's clear there is a vocal minority of people who are posting a half-dozen comments each in this thread while the vast majority at least don't find what I'm saying as offensive as you apparently do.
I don't find this offensive. I'm just asking you to be technically correct with what you say, or to at least address the people who are confused by what you're saying. Apparently, that's too high of a standard for you to live up to.
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This entire debate:
300bpm: people with average memory skills can memorize far more than they realize
sillysaurus: I have a memory deficit, and by the way, you're also wrong about people with average memory skills
300bpm: no I'm not
sillysaurus: yes you are
This is an incredibly useless debate (made worse by nitpicking over semantics) and based entirely on anecdotal evidence on both sides. 300bpm was just trying to be inspirational, which I find to be harmless in moderation. The end.
I apologize for any offense and hope things get better for you.
Just FYI, that can also come across as being belittling. I am not being sarcastic and I can see the ambiguity would be confusing, but that seems like a polite way of saying '&!#$ you', I hope you get better. At memorizing?
I apologize in advance for the inevitable offense you will take from this comment.
I think there are plenty of people that have legitimate difficulties doing things and I think there are plenty of people that use excuses as to why they can't do things. What the population of each group is or where sillysaurus falls in it, I don't know. He was quick to label himself handicapped. Then he said he only said that as a technique to extract information from me and that he's just bad at memorization "as most people are" according to him.
Beyond that, I think he's not a nice person. He used insults and name-calling as a frequent technique. He projected feelings he has for other people onto me. He ninja-edited almost all of his posts before deleting them. He got went from 0 to 60 angry over nothing. The guy has issues.
He's not debating me. He's debating every person that ever insulted him and using me as the punching bag while he's doing it. He's not listening to what I'm saying. Every time I reply to him he hears the people who have been putting him down and becomes more angry. Why in the world would I type out another reply to him?
Anyway, I don't see the significance of his question as aimed toward me.
what the difference is between someone who has a mental handicap, and who just isn't very good at memorizing things
He used the word handicap - I was just quoting him. I don't know what a mental handicap that causes you not to be able to memorize might look like. Does he have a traumatic brain injury? That would be a handicap. But he says he was like this since birth. Did oxygen get cut off to him during delivery? I have no idea what he's talking about when he says he's handicapped. How in the world can I answer his question?
In any case, I was aiming my comment at normal people and to head off the next silly question of what normal is, I mean people of typical mental capacity.
What difference does it make what the source of the problem is? Why do you have to know the type of handicap?
edit: he/she has already given an excuse for him/herself to stop answering questions. :(