element_wizard | (no subject)

Small fish. Big Pond. Big, more advanced and educated pond. Small uneducated backwards country bumpkin fish.

I guess I should have finished school.

Not that it would have done me any good. I mean sure I'll know all about the history of my world and could recite my ancestry backwards and forwards. But I still wouldn't know a damn thing about cells. Or electricity. Or algebra. Science in general. Computers. How to drive a car. Illnesses- diseases- Gravity. TV.

I can shoe a horse. Fix a wagon wheel. I know how to use a crossbow and long bow. Not a gun. If pressed I could make a decent sword. I can hunt game. Skin a deer. I can even fight with a sword. In a combat situation.

I know which plants are poisonous and which'll give you the runs and other's that'll help with a wound. At least at home. Don't know a damn about chemistry.

Long words make me run to the dictionary. Which I have enough problems using cause I have problems reading.

Apparently not being exposed to something makes you ignorant.

It's not my fault my world hasn't moved past the fucking iron age!

It's not like I can wave a wand or something and make it happen. I'm not a god. Despite my powers, I'm not a god.

I don't want to be a god.

I just want to understand stuff.

I like understanding stuff. I like knowing stuff. I don't like feeling stupid. But then again, who does?

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And I can't do any of those things.

Which means that if I was in your world, I'd be as lost as you feel when you're dealing with mine. Hell, I'd probably be dead fast.

That's pretty much what I'm saying. I mean, yes, I have all this weird knowledge, but I've spent my life pursuing it, and I had the leisure to do it. You didn't have the opportunities I did just by the fact that I didn't have to spend most of my awake time getting food and protecting my family.

You've adapted to things, even if you don't understand them, and that's a sign that you're NOT stupid. You can at least fake it, which is more than I can do in polite company sometimes.

Would you like me to get you something to help you improve your ability to read? A reading tutor book, something you can spend time with?