User blog comment:Laboratory Tuxedo 500098/Idiocy and My Anger Issues/@comment-4328703-20141026135913

I don't know why I have the urge to give my advice on everything on this wiki, probably cause I want to put my degree to use, but anyway:

The world's full of stupid people, I work with quite a few of them. I would reason to say that there are more stupid people in the world than there are people who can benefit the community. When I was in highschool I had a bit of a record of getting into fights at school. I never swung a punch ever, the closest I came to a fight was a guy broke his hands when he punched my face (which might I say is fuckin rad). I got into all of these fights because at the time I thought they were being stupid and disrespectful, but later I learned that the fights didn't start because they were being stupid, I just didn't know how to handle their stupidity.

I bring this into being patient. Patience is something you learn, you aren't born with it, you aren't struck with some revelation, you have to learn it. People are only stupid from your perspective because the world is moving too fast for you and the stupid people can't catch up. So begin with learning patience, this will stop you from doing anything else you'll regret. You can do this by writing a journal. I bring this up ALL the time, but trust me, journals are probably the best thing in the world. Your journal is where you can express the anger you bottled up that day. Also, impatience is caused by spending too much time in a world where in the click of a button you can load your search result and if it takes longer than five we freak out. Taking a break from the computer, though difficult, will really help you learn patience. When I was in middleschool our family had one of those old brick computers that seem museum worthy today but was top of it's class back then (which if i'm not wrong was 2005) and I was honestly addicted to it. There wasn't a waking hour of my day I wasn't on it, from the time before i went to school to the time I got back, to the time I went to bed. My dad was a boy scout master and he suggested I come with the on their summer camp and volunteer, and for some reason I did, and it was the best decision of my life. I spent two weeks out in the forest in a tent, which wounds like a picture of hell, but it got me connected to the outside world, and when I got back, I rarely got on the computer and I was hella patient.

Patience takes a long time to develop though, so while you're building that, if somebody's picking on you, I found it best to just go along with them, agree with them, add on to it. If somebody says "oh you're wearing girl clothes" or something, you respond with "Yeah, Forever 21's my favorite store". I learned this method on my own in highschool and it definetly helped, even if it does sound like it would only make people pick on you. If you just practice being able to deliver fast and witty comebacks that attack yourself and not them, the people attacking you will just give up. You do have to have a pretty good self esteem though.

hope I could help! :)