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Often people look at your generalised intelligence and see you as being. . .

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> No fair getting into other peoples' heads and deciding for them what they see or believe. You have to ask them; you don't get to make up your own rules about other people and how they feel and relate to you or the world, only on how you want to relate (or not) to them.

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I feel invalidated, hurt and triggered by your comments. You seem to be denying the very real experiences i have had.
To say i am 'making up rules' is insensitive and completely out of order .

Now i feel like i shouldn't have bothered to post today and too scared/upset to post further.
Sometimes it's just better to bottle things up and say nothing than to open up and be hurt and invalidated.

It'll be safer if i refrain from posting.