Mostly I was just a weirdo for most of my life, but to be fair I was a teen in the early 1980s, and mental illness was assumed to mean wielding a machete at Silver Lake.
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People react with DUHHHH, "really??" Or 'i never noticed' and to these latter i have some pamphlets for you.....
Mine are more like Justin Long's doctor character in Idiocracy.
"Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives."
When I am in my field of expertiece I apparently Start actin like Dr House
Everyone, including myself, said the same thing. We already knew that.