Do ppl think you're intelligent?

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Because they're idiots but wouldn't that make you smart?

I feel like I give the impression of being both intellectual and slow. I don't know that I read someone praising me as "intelligent" as a compliment. I'm always suspicious that they're just masking what they really feel about me.

It has been said in my company that I was "intelligent" before. But the way he mentioned it to another person made me feel as though I wasn't part of the conversation, which made it awkward. I immediately thought there was something wrong with the statement.

Most people I meet, no, they really don't. Some others do. I don't really have use for the general concept of intelligence though.

In most situations I think I come across as a bit dull. This could probably be attributed to a number of things but I think the most consistent factor that leads people to assume I'm below average is because I don’t really contribute a whole lot to the conversation. It's not so much that I don’t have anything to contribute; rather, it’s that I can’t seem to think in real time while engaged in conversation. Like, i will be able to listen and register what the other party is trying to put across but I’m unable to run my own thoughts in tandem. So, when it comes time for me to produce some sort of response, i feel almost startled by the fact that i have to condense w/e a person was talking about and then find something to say that relates to what they were saying in a meaningful way when the majority of my ideas seem to be of equal importance. What I mean by equal importance is that most people convey information in a way that generates emotional context with implications of a particular viewpoint. I on the other hand see all viewpoints and even levels of complexity with the same emotional backing. I also have difficulty in actually considering other viewpoints not because i don’t understand them but because i usually don’t see how a person could hold a view with such conviction while ignoring other aspects of a particular situation; and I also have difficulty in determining what a person knows or doesn’t know, so when they verbalize something that points toward an obvious lack of understanding, I will think something like "yes that is a component of this overall issue that we are discussing" and instead of illuminating my take on the subject so a less biased and more dynamic understanding of the topic can be shared i usually just remain quiet and assume that they understand something i don’t. the majority of my thoughts lack emotional association and i think normal people use these emotional associations as bookmarks to generate an idea of that overall exchange and so know where things need to be probed and examined; I’m far more detached and imprecise. So, either i go off on some tangent that relates but wasn’t the expected answer or I offer some sort of automated response that fits the situation but doesn’t necessarily go anywhere. I mostly just go around all melancholic assuming I’m dumb while cursing the world for having brought about my existence. In short, I’m painfully and intolerably dumb.

Yes because I spend a lot of time online, away from the conventional world. I've learned more online than I could in a classroom so I think I am more enlightened than the average person, I can read the news from a different angle as I've learned to question everything I read.

People usually think I am stupid until I surprise them with my knowlege of about most subjects.
I dont go out of my way to prove my inteligence and I am kinda reserved and look kinda spacey most of the time. Usually a person will have to go beyond an aquantance to realize that I am not a mental slug. As far as me thinking I am intelegent? I say that I know more than the general population, but does that make me smart or them dumb...the jury is still out on that one.

Generally yes. I'm usually pretty articulate, and can make myself some complex. I've also had interests that, when spoken about, come across as "intelligent" (philosophy, chemistry, biology, literature, etc.)

whether they think i am intelligent is not something i can consider.

i do not pay attention to their attention to me, and if they think i am smart then that is in their own heads, and if they think i am stupid , that is also in their own heads.

i do not believe in what i think until i have thought it through. once i have thought it through, and i believe what my mind has reasoned it to be, i am convinced, and no one can rattle my belief.

i can not be able to be influenced by other people. i understand that my vista of consciousness may be totally incorrect, but if i see things the way i see them, then that is what i believe.


i am going to bed now with thorough confidence that i see things in a way that are conducive to my own evolution so i will sleep well and i will not be niggled out of sleep by doubt.

and futhermo......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Some people think I'm intelligent. Others think of me as an awkward, oblivious idiot with not an ounce of common sense. Still others are just confused by me, and don't know what to make of me.
It all varies depending on the context/s in which a given individual has observed/ interacted with me. My skills are very uneven, which has been demonstrated both through an IQ test I took back in fifth grade, and through my real life functioning.
Incidentally, I was an an IEP through elementary school, and received services such as resource room as a result. When I was in my last year of elementary school, I was declassified, as I wasn't struggling too much academically, and doing well with some academic tasks/ subjects. Thus, it was determined that my case wasn't worth all the paperwork required to transfer everything over when I transitioned to junior high. The fact that I demonstrated abysmal social, organizational, and motor skills was apparently irrelevant. Thus, my IEP was thrown out, and it was also determined that I should be placed in honors classes.
Once I started attending honors classes, I did well in some subjects, and struggled a great deal in others. I remained a social outcast and favorite target of bullies.
I completed years of education, and was (mostly) successful academically through college and graduate school. I'm considered a reasonably decent writer. I can be quite articulate, and make astute verbal/ written observations about various situations as long as I'm not excessively tired, anxious or overwhelmed. Meanwhile, I can't organize my little studio apartment, tie shoelaces using the standard one loop method, and I often can't figure out what to say to hold up my end of a conversation. These are just a few examples of my highly uneven skills.
Is it any wonder that some people can't figure out whether I'm smart or stupid?

People who get to know me (which takes at least a couple of years) think I'm intelligent.
As for the rest, people think I'm mildly ret*d.

Most people's primary concern when meeting me is trying to figure out whether I'm a man or a woman.

After that, it really depends on the subject. Most people can't believe how stupid I am with numbers ("You mean you didn't learn how to tell time until the 6th grade???"), or my ineptitude with tasks requiring manual dexterity ("You mean you couldn't tie your shoes until you were 8 years old!!??"). But I always come out on top when it comes to demonstrating my mental library of useless, random facts, or my supposed artistic skill.

And some days I'm dumber than other days.

I've been told that I'm quite intelligent. It happens because I can spout off the most arbitrary of facts out of nowhere. One of my classmates told me that she can easily imagine me sitting on my computer at home reading wikipedia [and finding errors from time to time for pure recreation]...

Other times I walk around like this:



And it amazes people that I could be so smart and yet soooo stupid...

In a word, yes. It seems to work in my favor though, as people are more accepting of social ineptitude in people with above average intelligence.

Yes, because I am. I would be even more so if I didn't spend so much energy trying to act "normal." Physical coordination type things take me longer, so if someone meets me for the first time while I'm failing epically at something like that then they tend to think I'm slow until we have an actual conversation.

Apparently I come over a bit too intelligent (also by knowing strange stuff) and it even scares or confuses people. Like mentioned above, wikipedia is dangerous and I sometimes do get trapped in there, caught in the web for hours. I am extremely slow (sometimes answering questions days after).
In a recent IQ test this was noticed with a serious difference between verbal and performing IQ (not sure if those translations are correct). Apparently this results in coming over smarter than you are (without trying) but like all of those tests, nobody really knows.

As for the shoelaces, velcro came to my rescue but a noisy annoying combination with hands that wander of on their own. I'm slowly reaching 40 and still people warn me in stores that my shoes are undone (no I won't trip, years of experience). Usually I go for shoes without laces.