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Old Feb 03, 2016, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by DesigningWoman View Post
Hold up. I have a very high IQ (which is meaningless but whatever), gifted throughout school, ranked very high in the nation on SATs, highly recruited by many universities, full scholarship to college of choice, whatever. So I am gifted and you just told me how I think and feel?

You ascribed something you think on an entire group of people. That is seriously dangerous and paranoid. So I am gifted, I am not in any way disgusted by anyone who is trying to learn on any level. You are completely wrong.
Ow...okay.

I was going here by the myriad frustrated posts I've seen about the slow, stupid masses, who can't keep up, only want to talk about shallow things, can't think critically or analytically, etc. Many smart people I see online are rather misanthropic and are never able to fit in due to their intelligence.

It's also kind of hard to grasp, for me, that someone obviously superior wouldn't be at least frustrated with "normals" and think less of someone who's just less than they are. Like, why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you be sneering internally everytime someone less intelligent than you tries to be on your level (I know at least some do that...)? Why wouldn't you scoff at people's ignorance?

Maybe I am paranoid, I'm sorry.

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