It's funny that I see myself ending up a lot like my dad

he was a quiet, physical work kinda guy who drove several diesel trucks

and I know that I'm going to have a diesel truck someday too I can feel it in my bones

I don't talk a lot about my dad

probably bc there's not a lot to talk about

I was the only person in the house physically capable of doing any heavy work so I ended up doing a lot of physical work growing up

it might have been fine, but dad always made it clear that he thought I was an idiot

a kind of all brawn and no brain kind of person

so I guess that's why I don't talk about him

well it is true to some degree

I am more brawn than brain in most things

I don't necessarily agree. As I experience you, you have trouble learning in the way that's been practiced for the past, oh 150 years or so in the western world with traditional schooling

aka sitting and having information shoved at you and being expected to regurgitate it

but you seem to be doing pretty good with welding, and have obviously not killed yourself so far. And you're learning at a scary rate.

So no, not stupid, you just learn better in a way that isn't sitting and listening

You seem like you do a lot better with practical skills and hands on learning than academic stuff, yeah.