Do people see you as a complete idiot or a complete genius?

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Both, and simultaneously by my peers. If you told me to define that, clown equals genius plus idiot. So that's me.

But I actually don't like to joke around that lot, and I prefer to shut my mouth. So an adult would think that I'm a genius.

"You're too smart to be disabled"

Yes sometimes people think I am an idiot, I don't think I am.........but maybe I am not as intelligent as I think either, maybe I just fail in so many other aspects of my life I was just clinging to the belief I have high intelligence so I did not have to feel like a total loser......but even if i do have high intelligence what good does it do me when I cannot use it to get a job and even getting a college degree seems like an unreachable goal.

I'm not sure, and 95% of the time, i couldn't give a monkey's chuff

both.

Both, and both are incorrect.

Something I hate:

"How could you possibly have trouble with ______? I thought you were a genius?"

I never claimed to be a genius. I never mentioned any super-ultra-mega-genius skills I might have. I don't even use big words anymore, because my therapist forced me to remove them from my everyday lexicon in order to appear as normal as possible. And I think many people have misunderstood my impatience to be intelligence.

Anyway, the better I get to know someone, the dumber they think I am. I apparently come off as highly intelligent at first, then I surprise people with the things I don't know, and then they slowly get less surprised and start sighing and shaking their heads at my odd inability to do whatever it is I can't do that time. u_u

I'm with the majority here, so both both and either.

Both. As a child, I was seen as gullible too, which I'm definitely not. People always get the wrong impression of me. The teachers at school and uni thought I was a swot, but the truth was that I couldn't study, I just remembered everything.

Both. But I think I'm neither. It would definitely be nice to be a genius though...

It depends on who these "people" are and how on earth would I know what they think about me?

Mostly I think that they consider me weird and smart. Somehow people I encountered tend to trust me a lot and believe anything I tell them. I must look honest, too.

to the OP: Do people generally see you as a black and white, all or nothing kind of guy?

I don't really know. But I would like to know had people ever said that they where smarter than you? I had people say this to me and it was the same guy who would call me slow or idiot just because I have spacing out problems. I sometimes am a complete idiot because I would get simple problems wrong on math assignments and people will react to the mistakes as if the world blew up. Well atleast that one kid but he was a jerk and I hate him but a lot of people will say to me that I am a idiot or just slow this did not happen to me last year though only this year for some reason I wonder if it had to do with my depression that is causing me to think slow. Or if I am mwntally alow in that case I don't know how to cope with that.

I don't really know. But I would like to know had people ever said that they where smarter than you? I had people say this to me and it was the same guy who would call me slow or idiot just because I have spacing out problems. I sometimes am a complete idiot because I would get simple problems wrong on math assignments and people will react to the mistakes as if the world blew up. Well atleast that one kid but he was a jerk and I hate him but a lot of people will say to me that I am a idiot or just slow this did not happen to me last year though only this year for some reason I wonder if it had to do with my depression that is causing me to think slow. Or if I am mentally alow in that case I don't know how to cope with that.

I can be both

Usually people see me as a mad genius.