Hi Pain,

How are you?

You say : I am so dumb I can hardly believe it. I find myself wordless when I arguing with someone, I am useless in social situations….I never had any friends, no social contacts, no one in my life. Do you equate intelligence with social skills? I don’t. In fact, I find that many intelligent people have rather poor social skills. You said you got A’s in some of your uni courses — which courses? Are you better with numbers than you feel you are with words?

My advice is to try hard to attain at least one solid marketable skill. Have you ever taken a software programming class like java? You might find it fun, and if your uni doesn’t offer a beginning programming course there are online courses available. It doesn’t have to be programming; it can be anything that interests you, that takes your mind off your troubles, that you can parlay into a career. The goal is to become so skilled at whatever it is that you become an expert at it. Once you are an expert, your options will open up.

What interests you?

B