a lot of things Im a bit, sort of, stupid and slow. And
it takes me about, kind of like, 10 years later than my
fellow girlfriends in, kind of like...finding out about
certain things, and...I would basically say that, you know,
Im a bit, sort of stupid and a bit sort of slow, you know,
and... I think its lot to do with my...inability to...
take in and learn about things with my brain. I kind of
have to do it with my senses, is kind of all I got, really.
And when you do things like that it takes ages, you know.
And I, for example #like#, no way I can drive a car. I had
a car for one year and I think I crashed it, sort of...
twice a month. And its just to clever for me, you know,
its got no logic, traffic - just got no logic for me.
Me, Dec. 1th 1993 on Swedish TV1
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