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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with a lot of what’s been said above. I’d have to add being aware and observant. I know a lot of people who are highly educated and smart in some ways, but a bomb could go off a block away and they wouldn’t notice. It’s like they’re never fully present. My mother is like this. She’s intelligent but she misses everything and is hard to talk to. [/quote]

My mom is like this too. So curious, distracted, creative, and sometimes annoying. She just visited for my DC's graduation. I learned something I had never known before. She randomly mused, in a conversation about the valedictorian in my DC's class, that she had been valedictorian of her high school class at a large Catholic high school. She shared that the head of school had called up her mother to pressure her to allow the #2 in the class take the valedictorian honor because that student was disadvantaged in some ways (not economically) and it would mean more to that student and be the charitable thing to do. The nun laid on the Catholic guilt and her mother gave in, then regretted it greatly later. Interesting that my mom had no agency in the situation, they just took the honor from her and gave it to the salutatorian. [/quote][/quote]

First PP, what you wrote about being "never fully present" sounds like it could be something like ADHD. Or maybe introversion to a very high level. [/quote]

I don't think my mother has ADHD. She's just kind of slow. It didn't stop her from getting a PhD, but I simply cannot think of her as highly intelligent. She can't seem to process things quickly, or at all.

She's more of an introvert than an extrovert but I don't believe that's relevant here. [/quote]

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