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Flowers For Algernon - Drawbacks to being a genius
Are there any drawbacks to being a genius? Explain.
22 comments:
gio
said...
i think a draw back of being a genius is that when your really smart you tend to explain how everything works and every one in your eyes look stupid so no one would want to be your friend
I think when you are a genius you tend to not talk a lot to your freinds, and you tend to correct them when they are wrong and, it will not be good because sometimes people might not even want to be your friend.
I think the draw back of being a genius is that you are really smart and sometimes people would take advantage of you. Like they would ask you for the answers and they are the ones who get the credit for it. And thing is that you would always get better grades than others and you might brag about it and can hurt someones feelings. Another thing is that you might not have any friends beacause you would always correct others and think of yourself as a genius and that might put some people down.
I agree with you because being a genius you would have to explain things to others.. but you dont really know if anybody would want to become your friend.
I think that a few drawbacks of being genius is that when you have friends, or just talk to people, if they are wrong you would correct them all the time. That can get very annoying because the person who is being corrected would possibly feel stupid because they had a "wrong" answer. Another drawback would be you may not talk to people because they might call you a nerd and make fun of you. Those are a couple of drawbacks of being a genius.
Eileen, I agree with you that correcting people is a good thing because they can learn something. But the genius may correct people constantly and for some stupid reasons that don't make a difference. That can get a bit annoying sometimes, like if you were being corrected all the time by this one person, you may eventually feel stupid. Although every once in a while it would be ok. :)
i think that a draw back to being a genius is that since you are smarter then alot of people they will feel stupid and call you names because they feel inferior to you.
i disagree about you thinking correcting people. i think if some one is constently correcting people is ok for mabye school in class (if they are correcting you without an attitude) but when your trying to have fun in school or outside of school it ruins your day. like if your having lunch and trying to talk becouse lunch is the only time during school you could talk to your friends it will get annoying if every sentance you say you get correct them or if your messaging people in a chat room or something and your using chat talk they would correct you like if you say "u r gr8" they will be like "i think you mean you are great" and that would be really annoying or if someone is trying to tell a joke that uses word puns or things that are impossable they state that and if you learn how to do this really cool magic trick for a bunch of little kids the genuis has to ruin it by explaining how it works and the would tell the little kids that santa dosent exist and neither does the tooth fairy or super heros and that would make them cry and alot of the time if your a genius you have a bad attitude against every one and people dont like that so correcting people is a really bad things if you constently do it
another drawback of being a genius is that there arent mant geniuses around so if you want to play a learning game no one would want to play becouse we dont like learning on our spare time. and even if they agreed to play with you you would always win becouse your a genius
but some geniuses are cool and stuff like they may no everything but they dont correct people and they dont ruin little kids dreams by saying that santas not real
what??.. jordan and i are saying that correcting others is kind of good. but the down side is that it will get annoying later if everyday that same person is correcting you like every single minute of your lifee!!!
22 comments:
i think a draw back of being a genius is that when your really smart you tend to explain how everything works and every one in your eyes look stupid so no one would want to be your friend
I think when you are a genius you tend to not talk a lot to your freinds, and you tend to correct them when they are wrong and, it will not be good because sometimes people might not even want to be your friend.
i think that a drawback to being a genius is that you always tell people what to do and how to doit.
To: Gio
I think your comment is ok and it needs a little more detail.
TO: Eduardo
You need mor details and do it is two words
I think the draw back of being a genius is that you are really smart and sometimes people would take advantage of you. Like they would ask you for the answers and they are the ones who get the credit for it. And thing is that you would always get better grades than others and you might brag about it and can hurt someones feelings. Another thing is that you might not have any friends beacause you would always correct others and think of yourself as a genius and that might put some people down.
To: Gio
I agree with you because being a genius you would have to explain things to others.. but you dont really know if anybody would want to become your friend.
To Kristie:
I dont think its a bad thing to correct people. When you correct people.. i think its a good idea because they cab learn from their mistakes.
I think that a few drawbacks of being genius is that when you have friends, or just talk to people, if they are wrong you would correct them all the time. That can get very annoying because the person who is being corrected would possibly feel stupid because they had a "wrong" answer. Another drawback would be you may not talk to people because they might call you a nerd and make fun of you. Those are a couple of drawbacks of being a genius.
Eileen, I agree with you that correcting people is a good thing because they can learn something. But the genius may correct people constantly and for some stupid reasons that don't make a difference. That can get a bit annoying sometimes, like if you were being corrected all the time by this one person, you may eventually feel stupid. Although every once in a while it would be ok. :)
To Jordan:
i agree with you when you said that being corected many times can be annoying. Once in a while is okay too.
To:Eileen
Sometimes it is not good because then you make the other person feel bad you never know
i think that a draw back to being a genius is that since you are smarter then alot of people they will feel stupid and call you names because they feel inferior to you.
to: eillen and jordan
i disagree about you thinking correcting people. i think if some one is constently correcting people
is ok for mabye school in class (if they are correcting you without an attitude) but when your trying to have fun in school or outside of school it ruins your day. like if your having lunch and trying to talk becouse lunch is the only time during school you could talk to your friends it will get annoying if every sentance you say you get correct them or if your messaging people in a chat room or something and your using chat talk they would correct you like if you say "u r gr8" they will be like "i think you mean you are great" and that would be really annoying or if someone is trying to tell a joke that uses word puns or things that are impossable they state that and if you learn how to do this really cool magic trick for a bunch of little kids the genuis has to ruin it by explaining how it works and the would tell the little kids that santa dosent exist and neither does the tooth fairy or super heros and that would make them cry and alot of the time if your a genius you have a bad attitude against every one and people dont like that so correcting people is a really bad things if you constently do it
another drawback of being a genius is that there arent mant geniuses around so if you want to play a learning game no one would want to play becouse we dont like learning on our spare time. and even if they agreed to play with you you would always win becouse your a genius
but some geniuses are cool and stuff like they may no everything but they dont correct people and they dont ruin little kids dreams by saying that santas not real
what??.. jordan and i are saying that correcting others is kind of good. but the down side is that it will get annoying later if everyday that same person is correcting you like every single minute of your lifee!!!
To Gio:
and also you spelt me name wrong.. its Eileen not Eillen.. just putting it out there!!!
Mrs. Sullivan..
are you going 2 post any new posts for Flowers Of Algernon...??
yes i think that you all are right
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