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No, no, no, and no. This is only true if actual brain damage is involved somewhere. Otherwise, humans have a remarkable amount of psychological heartiness to bounce back from even the worst of short-term trauma. This has been observed time and again by the psychological community.

Hmm... I do agree his first sentence here sucks, but I don't get the deal with calling out the word "said" in particular. It's just using "says" in the past tense, and writers use "said" all the time. It's considered the invisible speaker tag for a reason, and a lot of professional writers and...

This exactly. As TheEldrichGod said, this kind of backstory is not the kind of backstory that creates Assholes, it's the kind of backstory that creates empathetic avenger type characters. Something a little like Batman, being all introspective a bunch and wanting to constantly save everyone...

1st issue, right from the start, the cold open approach really doesn't work in writing that well in general, and in the few cases it does you are generally using an action event with heightened emotions and you really need to immerse your audience in the moment with a lot of descriptive details...

I think the borrowers might sorta count, depending on whether you interpret it as avoiding the "bigs" in general or just the adults among them, and if you count "staying away from" as zero interaction or just not being properly discovered and having their true state as little people revealed...

I've gone through an exercise of trying to rate what aspects of storytelling are most important. Through all that effort, I have reached the obvious conclusion. They're all important, in near equal proportions. Favoring one to the detriment of the others will make for a poor story. You can, as...

Nah, we can observe all the proposals made in the theory of evolution in real time, especially in cases where animals have evolved over the span of a few generations to be more adaptable to man-made things (such as certain species of bird who nest in freeway overpasses evolving to shorten their...

1. She is able to remember and implement things she has learned from Earth that the average person would have no chance of remembering. Would you know how to make shampoo? 2. She is very aware of educational theory and using rewards for motivation. That's NOT a common skill even here in modern...

I refuse to vote in this poll. You only presented 2 of the 4 possible combinations of 1st-3rd and present-past tense. You can combine them any way you like, and I see this poll as invalid for only including 2 of the possible options. Either isolate it to only 3rd limited Vs. 1st with no...

Alright. I said I wouldn't reply, but I was editing that last portion of my response like crazy so I think it is only fair to you if I at least point out, yes, I edited that last portion of my post a lot and there's a good chance you might not have seen it in it's state as it is now. I have it...

Wow. Way to take my quote out of context. I said the thing that listening to others gains you is empathy and the ability to understand things from other's perspectives, along with the ability to gain a broader understanding of the world. Yes, you absolutely can gain the latter from podcasts even...

He was talking about logic fallacies, and mischaracterizing my argument in doing so. You don't do that if you understand the argument... unless you're an asshole.

The content of your objection here is the exact reason why the false stereotypes of intelligent people being braggadocios ass-holes has persisted for so long and it's only now in this age of the internet that people are just starting to realize the old stereotypes are all wrong. As for defining...

Being an asshole in general cuts you off from sources of information. This, in turn, means that said person is not using the most optimal strategy to feed their driving need to know more things in order to satisfy the natural curiosity that is one of the defining traits of intelligent people...

It's absolutely the writer's fault, 100% of the time. The only wiggle room in that statement is whether it's deliberate because the author doesn't want you finding out, if it's deliberate because the author doesn't know how to write an intelligent character and is just hand-waving things away...

The point is, if you're going to write a character who's supposedly intelligent, you might as well put in the effort to write them like a real intelligent person with the traits and behaviors observed in real intelligent people IRL. It will make things more believable, and exchanging out the...

I have always been aware there are a lot of myths in regards to intelligence, but bringing up the subject in another thread and sharing my experience with it has shown me in terms of the responses that people's immersion in the myths is worse than I thought. Therefore, I decided I would share...

Yeah, my sister. I'm 2 years older, but we still look similar enough that everyone thinks we're twins. I really freaked out my brother-in-law once when he saw me from behind.

The dunning kruger effect applies to general knowledge in a given subject, IQ measures a person's ability to problem solve and recognize patterns. A person with higher IQ will very quickly apply their problem solving and pattern recognition to the way life itself works and realize the best way...

Ok, THIS is exactly what I'm talking about. You are the same as most high IQ people in this sense. A smart person doesn't think of themselves as smart. The reason for this is you, by nature, do not compare yourself to other people. Instead, you are smart enough that you can learn from other...