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Originally Posted by ShadowGX
I'm not ashamed of my IQ, but I'm also not the kind to go around bragging about it and pushing it in other people's faces, so because it doesn't make me a bad person I don't have any reason to feel ashamed. I'm not "book smart" in the least, so it's easy for me to hide the fact that I have a higher than average IQ. I'm also not way way up there, just above average.
The only time I wanted to throw it in someone's face was a "rival" in high school who was super book smart and was always bragging about her IQ (it was either 115 or 118, I can't remember now). I so badly wanted to tell her that I'm smarter than her despite how I failed at school because I hated it, but because I did fail at school I knew it wouldn't have much weight and I didn't have any way to prove it otherwise because I didn't carry around a paper or something like a twat to prove I'm smart.
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I almost always find that people who aren't "book smart" tend to be smarter in more useful ways. And that's interesting...I wouldn't think 115/118 would be high enough to brag about? I mean, it's higher than average, but I guess I'm always shocked at how low average actually is.
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Originally Posted by Calla lily12
I'm not ashamed of it; I rarely talk about it. Privately, it's all I have.  |
I'm always afraid that it's all I have too.