Does anyone else with a high intelligence/high education level (one or more graduate degrees) feel really ashamed about it? I really try hard to appear average or maybe just slightly above average.

I've never figured out why people find intelligence attractive. I would not want someone to be attracted to me for that reason (although that has happened in the past) but apparently, that's the only option as that might be my only redeeming characteristic.

And when people know you're intelligent you're either exploited or made fun of when you can't do something or if you're doing something that someone else deems to be below your level.

That and you're always so bored and depressed...it takes so much more to keep your brain engaged.

But I always get found out.

I just wish I were average. I have yet to discover benefits to having a high IQ other than it attracts people with a fetish for intelligence which wouldn't be the sort I'd want attract.