Daniel · 15 answers · 3mo

What made you feel like you're stupid?

I used to be so proud of how logical and calm I could be under pressure … and then I had a child and everything changed. Now almost everything makes me feel stupid. For example (happened years ago), our patio sliding door latch malfunctioned when I stepped out for a sec and locked me out of the house with my baby inside. I panicked and ran from neighbors house to neighbors house until someone answered the door and texted my husband. And this whole time… we had a ring camera that I could have just pressed a button on and would have connected me to my husband immediately. So dumb.

Mispronouncing “Pythagorean” when I had only read about it in books but never heard it pronounced.

Ever since I got my new phone last year I've been having an annoying problem with the volume control while using my speaker over WiFi - it worked fine before, and still works fine over Bluetooth (but that's a whole other story). It shows the correct level on the lock screen but is wildly out on the music app. Anyway, after trying everything I could think of - including setting everything up from scratch again - I decided to look in the "advanced settings" for WiFi streaming on the speaker's app. Oh dear... It's all abbreviations and tech-speak. Reader, I gave up feeling like a halfwit.

There is a light fixture I have that has gone out and I cannot figure out how to replace (a ceiling spot light in my bathroom) - in my defence a few others have had a go at it too and failed... but it makes me thing of the joke 'how many people does it take to change a lightbulb?' and I'm part of the punchline.

Is she a straight woman who is just very nice and friendly to me or does she flirt with me for a reason? That question, all the time.

When I was a teenager all the teachers at my high school would make me feel like I was stupid.

I don't feel stupid or smart. I just am. I used to be obsessed with not making mistakes but it's impossible to grow without making some mistakes. I could look up everything before saying something but I'm happy enough to just say what my view is and not needing to speak just because I can.

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