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I'm glad to see that this has gotten back on topic. I have just three things to say:
(1) The original post is the whiniest piece of self-indulgence that I have seen in a long, long while.
(2) Blaming your shortcomings (such as not being some sort of prodigy) on your parents reflects more poorly on you than it does on them.
(3) Mark Twain once said, ""When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
(1) The original post is the whiniest piece of self-indulgence that I have seen in a long, long while.
(2) Blaming your shortcomings (such as not being some sort of prodigy) on your parents reflects more poorly on you than it does on them.
(3) Mark Twain once said, ""When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."