[chess93]

I'm glad the label worked for you but it did not work at all for me. It kind of shoehorned me in to a personality type and limited my social options.

In all honesty I look back at my "smartness" as a kind of attention-seeking behavior where all I really wanted was the attention you got from getting the highest grade in the class or being the only one from your school to go to the ivy league.

To me, the smart label just means you are willing to sacrifice more than others to study/learn/build. Everything I have learned about people since starting college has told me that this is a net negative.

[akhilcacharya]

Believe me, it’s much worse being considered not intelligent instead. I knew so many people growing up that were orders of magnitude more intelligent and accomplished than me (and I still do).

[xtiansimon]

>> ‘...look back at my "smartness" as a kind of attention-seeking behavior...’

Isn’t attention-seeking sort of hard-wired into all dependent animals? So, well. You’re normal there.