DrugCrazed: do I EVER know what you're talking about! I also do the self-deprecation route. The problem is that people can eventually become what they pretend to be, and I think that happened to me. I don't know when I crossed the line between pretending to be less than I am and believing it. You can quit trying if you think you'll end up failing anyway. Listen to your friends.

I wish at some point in my life, I'd tried to fill some better role.