Do Morons Think You Are Stupid?

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When you were in high school, did you ever get called stupid by people who had IQs that were half of yours?

I remember once, in sophomore biology, this girl behind me fancied herself a secret code expert. I had read an article (at age 15) about how cryptology works, and how the most common symbol is usually the letter "E" as it is the most common letter in the English language.

So I take her "code" and start translating all the most common symbols to "E" and promptly get told that I am f*****g stupid. Turns out her "code" was just shortening each word in the sentence to its first letter. So some silly twat with the sense God gave a brick is telling me I am stupid for approaching cryptology the same way the OSS did in WWII.

And the thing that drives me the craziest is that I was too inarticulate at the the time to tell her to f**k a brick sideways.

Yes. This happens.

Don't allow it to let you feel poorly about yourself. It doesn't matter that she thinks that she is smarter, only that you are smarter. In fact. Not in opinion.

I had a lot of people call be stupid, mainly because of my stuttering. And being too anxious to understand what was being said to me.

Maybe the key to success is in not being clever at all. I'm beginning to think the less I concentrate on something the better I am at it.

Actually, IQ has very little to do with it. I have met people who are motivated to learn, fascinated with the world around them, and will put a great deal of effort into accumulating new information--who also have IQs in the "mental retardation" range (and the delayed daily-life skills to corroborate that diagnosis).

I think you are taking the idea of people who are willfully ignorant, who do not want to learn, and who just want to feel smarter than others without putting effort into it, and squishing it together with the idea of people who simply find it harder to learn things. Those are two very different things.

It's actually interesting that you use the word "moron". That used to be a word for mental retardation... heck, nowadays even "mental retardation" is considered somewhat of an offensive term. Every term used for mental retardation eventually becomes an insult, probably because people are doing this exact thing--assuming that "willfully ignorant" is the same thing as "learning difficulty".

The people like the person in the original post (if this person has the sort of attitude I am thinking of) do not seem to like learning; they only really like trying to make other people feel stupid by looking smarter themselves. They don't like facts for their own sake; they just like facts because they can use them to intimidate other people. I would advise you that the best thing to do is simply stay away from these people if you can.

i used to get this a LOT. People would'nt get my sence of humor/sarcasm. I was always saying stupid stuff on purpose, it got people laughing when i was still in the higher education but when i was set back to a lower level i was just called stupid when saying these things. Also people will call you stupid for trying to spark up conversation on topics that are ouf the ordinary or have an unconventional approach. Now i just see that is a defense mechanism for people who dont want their head to hurt when being confronted with their own stupidity. It worked though, for years i just stopped saying what i thought because people would not get what i was talking about or didnt want to hear.

yup happens to me all the time, it not that the people are necessarily not as smart as I am, it more of a fact they don't fully understand how my brain and though processes work since it is so different from theirs and the norm. I never let it effect me though those same people are usually the ones that come to me to fix most their problems or advice on things, after a few times going through that cycle it stops. In fact one of the few people I still hang with that has known me for a long time gets a chuckle when people do it.

By definition, the thinking capacity of a moron is impaired and as such, their verbal ejaculations precede any useful cognition. So while they may say that I am stupid, they have most assuredly not thought it.

It does get frustrating, especially when the problems stem from non-morons who are just closed-minded.