I am like you, a thinking being.
Maybe I’m not as smart, or as skilled, as you are. I don’t know. Maybe I lack the same amount of self-awareness. Again, unknown. I do, however, have enough awareness of myself and others to be aware of the thing you are telling me, which for some reason, you felt a need to do. Did you genuinely think I was not aware? Are my britches that small, my ass that big? Does the possibility that I dared to think that I was good at doing something bother you that much? I was talking about this very issue with somebody else - “somebody with the proper training might be able to break through to them”, is a short approximation of what I said. Why mention it, though? I don’t owe you that. I don’t owe that to a person who doesn’t respect me enough to assume that I have, bare minimum, considered this incredibly, brutally fucking obvious thing. If you’re that frustrated by something about me, please, just let me be. I’m not going to come after you, but I’m not going to put up with this kind of bad faith disrespect anymore, either. We’re not children.
