I sent this in a pm to someone originally, as I am a bit shy of posting some of my thoughts on the board, but it was suggested it would make a good topic for discussion and maybe I can get some different insights on it. So anyway, here is what I sent.
Did you ever experience frustration that time was too short to learn everything?
I find it so frustrating that if I start watching a general history series, like A History Of Britain, I find I do not have much of a knowledge about all the elements within it, such as the romans, then roman history, then the forming of rome etc, then I want to go back even further and understand how the land formed into separate countries and so on and I end up frustrated and no longer enjoying the series because I realise how little I know and feel unintelligent.
I seem to have not absorbed or to not remember a great deal of my school education, my general knowledge is pretty appalling as I am finding in the pub quiz my group does weekly and yeah, I have always placed more value on my intelligence than anything else about me.
There is so damn much I do not know and do not understand. I know nil about politics and philosophy, for example.
They just never interested me. But my mother seems to have at least a basic understanding as does my brother.
Is this an aspie thing, to be rubbish at general knowledge? I also seem to forget easily, even some areas I obsessed about in my past. I used to eat, sleep and breathe Doctor Who, but I can no longer name all the stories or recall all the material I read about the making of it and the mishaps etc.
