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[hawkwing_lb]

I am, it appears, not marvellously eloquent, nor marvellously articulate of late. Nor, indeed, a scintillating conversationalist.

I'm awkard, and inarticulate, and undereducated in entirely too many things. And I'm tall enough to loom over most of my mates, which is disconcerting at the least.

*sigh*

Oh, and I'm supposed to be a responsible adult, too. How weird is that?

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I did the growth spurt and taller than most of my peers thing when I was thirteen, and I still catch myself doing "no, I'm really small and harmless" body language things without thinking; it's where my instinct for sitting on the floor when other people are in chairs comes from, I think. So you have my sympathy with perhaps a bit more direct identification and experience than I might have with other bothersome things.

fwiw, I find your communication of stuff entirely fine and congenial; "inarticulate" is not a descriptor that would have come to mind.

Responsible adult stuff really is weird. Married and taxpayer and homeowner and all that stuff and it still feels like someone's made a mistake somewhere, and that the finishing high school and planning for what to do next stuff that zorinth is doing at the moment is a life stage I don't recall ever being properly finished with, and now the person I'm parenting is doing it.

*hug*

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I noticed that when I was spending a lot of time doing heavy thinking and cramming that my mental powers (such as they are) were greatly diminished. As if only so much energy can be produced by the brain (Scotty! We need more power!) and the dilithium crystals were slowly cracking under the strain.

So, when you are finished with school -- or at least the really intense parts -- you may well find your articulation and eloquence rapidly becoming more scintillating. Undereducation is relative after all, and you will find areas of expertise (or of enthusiasm) as you go along. I myself find engineers and historians quite intimidating, and then I remind myself of the surgeries I've performed and I don't feel so small.

Responsible adulthood is probably never going to feel right. I still catch myself thinking that I can fake it really well, but one of these days I'm going to get caught pretending to be an adult..and then all heck will break loose. Just don't tell anyone.

;-)

[davefreer.livejournal.com]

'responsible adult'. Ha. responsible maybe. But adult as in 'finished growing' - it's not just about inches - it's brain stuff. I'm not quite ready for that myself. And 5'9" not overwhelming tall. I know a lass who is 6'3" and junoesque in the bargain - she has real issues - but none she hasn't been able to beat to pulp. Seriously, articulate comes with practice, and under-educated is a relative thing, a question of perception and a steadily changing one.