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A lot of us are on a constant journey to improve our minds. We read books, watch films, study and otherwise educate and better ourselves so that we can become more intelligent in various ways. However, some people are just born smart and talented in some ways, requiring less effort to achieve certain things that others might struggle with. Contrary to what some might believe, being smart is not always a blessing. 

Someone created a thread on the r/AskReddit subreddit, asking about the hardships smart people have to live with, exactly because of their high intelligence, and folks delivered plenty of observations, most of which are quite heavy. Scroll down to see the whole list of things people online shared and consider upvoting the entries you relate to the most, as well as leaving a comment.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Being smart enough to know you're right while dealing with people too stupid to know they're wrong is soul crushing.

Stryker2279 , Allan Rotgers Report

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group There are different types of intelligence. Being good at physics doesn't mean that you should manage people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So very true. You need emotional intelligence and ability to put yourself in others shoes to know how to motivate and support. Know this from being under terrible bosses, wonderful bosses and being a lead myself.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group They are full of doubt compared to people who are not smart

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Our school system (Australia) isn't built to deal with them. It crushes bright kids down to everyone else's level.

The usual solution is just to give them extra work to do on top of the assigned work, when they finish that too fast. But to a kid, that's a punishment. In this way achieving beyond a certain accepted parameter is quietly discouraged.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the worst. When i realized it I haven't said anything and i'd rather draw on my paper, book etc. It's boring when i finish something that i have half an hour in few minutes and i'm stupid for teachers because i have everything covered with my drawings

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rewards come later in life. I'm paid to do a 36 hour week. I finish my work in about eight to ten hours. I'm still getting praise and have turned down promotions as that would mean having to cut back on my spare time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just like in adult life; done all your tasks at your job? Great! Now your boss will give you more to do, most beyond what you're being paid to do.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once worked as a cook and had no break in a eight hour shift. One day I busted asd so I could dit while eating. When boss saw me, he had me help the dishwasher.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's terrible. At my school (private, but not fancy shmancy), the music kids get a million dollar performing arts complex, the sports kids get heaps of areas and amazing programs with a massive awards ceremony, and the academic kids just get a quarter of the after school care room (in primary) and a pdf certificate online if they get good enough grades every term...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Went to a college that had thousands of students living on campus, new quad dorms with kitchens for the football team but one floor of one dorm for the gifted.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my secondary school (uk) I was put into the top class for English, yet even there, the kids would either refuse to read, or could barely even read at all, they would read so slowly in a robotic, monotone kind of voice.. it did drive me insane... I'd been reading at an adult level from the age of 5, so at the time, also having aspergers, I didn't understand why these kids couldn't read properly. Now I realise it was probably because they didn't have parents that encouraged them. So their learned attitude was to not even bother or try in some cases. Some people probably think "why read when you can do this instead?" it's pretty sad tbh...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was considered gifted in language and reading in secondary school, however, I was not put into the gifted class because I struggled with math. In the United Kingdom and United States, the gifted class meant that you excelled at both language arts and math. It was so incredibly frustrated because I would be reading these advanced books and loved language learning, and the gifted class got to do all of these wonderful things.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was bored all day in school and they’re only solution was to give me more stupid easy worksheets. All we did in class was worksheets and we didn’t even discuss them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is how government run schools work, it is to create a lowest common denominator education to meet graduation rates rather than educate. Its why school choice is very important, to allow people to educate their children as they see fit with many options. Like what Denmark has

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Ally MacMann
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not just Australia and it's not just smart kids. Children learn in different ways and there's barely an attempt to incorporate that idea in the classroom and even if there was the resources usually wouldn't be there to support it. Then there's the teachers, who are also crushed by the system they work in (in the US for sure).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am the type that if you gave me all the work for the entire curriculum for all subjects except maths because that was my one weak point at the start of term and just left me to my own devices I would have everything done well before the end of term.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in high school I started with honors classes in freshman year and took AP classes in sophomore. I failed the AP classes miserably and had to retake the class during the summer. It was the same information, literally the same book, but less work. Guess who switched to the remedial classes the next semester.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is absolutely true. As a teacher, we are trained to do just that, and not to acknowledge that some kids are brighter than others.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't just Australia. It is a difficulty with any large public education system. If the system is designed to be equitable, then the promotion of mediocrity is always going to be the norm. For this reason, a lot of school systems are now treating "gifted" kids in a separate system, often run within the context of special education. This is particularly helpful, as a lot of people maybe extraordinary in some areas, while struggling in others. My middle child is seven, with the vocabulary and story telling skills of an adult, and well over her grade in mathematics, but she has severe dyslexia, and motor skills delay. She is only now able to physically grip a pencil. The schools refer to this as "twice exceptional", so she is "gifted" in some areas, delayed in others.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly! I used to love school (still in high school), intermediate was great, we learnt interesting things. And the high school felt like it crushed me down to everyone's level and I've been bored ever since. And when there is interesting work I struggle to find it interesting or motivated to do it (although that might be from ADHD). I totally get it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

they do have academies now for brighter students, for example in Queensland

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Katie Andrews
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's when, as a teacher, I came up with some kind of non-graded, for fun project they wanted to do. Build a model, work on other homework, etc. Quite often, though, a lot of them just wanted to SLEEP. I was fine with that and just said if an admin comes in the room, look busy. They understood I knew they needed sleep, rest, time off; they also understood it doesn't look good for a kid to sleep in class. Luckly, most admins didn't come in often or for long.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's nota punishment, I had a pupil who loved her extra stuff, because she was bored otherwise.

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Linda Lee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my son was in elementary school, he was talking as the teacher was starting a new topic. She asked him if he'd like to take the final exam right now. I was called to the school because he passed the exam but was "misbehaving". I had words with the principal but the teacher wasn't in this meeting. I discovered that my son's teacher went home because she was upset that my son passed the exam.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a retired teacher, I can spot a bored, under-stimulated kid a mile off, and your son was one. It sucks that most schools, and most teachers, don't have the time, supplies, or mental bandwidth to provide for those who are light years above peers. Takes a lot of conversation, planning, strategizing so a kid will feel stimulated, interested, and not punished or over-worked. I hope he got to do more of what he wanted to do as school went on.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes coming from australia the school system for smart/fastlearning or gifted people like me is really, really s**t. they have excuses for almost everything

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

George Land The Failure Of Success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKMq-rYtnc&feature=youtu.be&t=5m29s

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It depends on the school. A lot of Australian high schools have extension programs and classes to cater for the brightest students. Maybe your information or recall is out of date?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do not agree! If you don’t give him extra you will have 2 people that know the same thing but took different time to learn it. You give him extra because he has the opportunity to learn more because of his gift. But that extra needs to be something else.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's normal all over the world. The average is the majority so if you stood out, there needs to be some way to keep you in line. If this is not done, there can be no "harmony" as they put it back in the day. I understood this early on so I just go to school enough to not get expelled. But since I still aced all the exams they had no reason to kick me out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All of my school books from elementary school share a similarity: "Dont work so quickly! You're doing too much!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An advanced learning program run by average teachers is built to fail. They can't even imagine the progress that could be made.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Powers that be don't want Trees, with their different shades abilities and different kinds of wood and different work for different leaves and roots and branches and limbs. They send kids to school to become PENCILS. All uniform and alike: mindless "patriotic" sticks worshipping the almighty dollar and willing to sacrifice... er... "invest" their entire lives, souls, spirits, and bodies to the western, capitalist, "dream" of grinding til you die...for OTHERS to get rich.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

asutralians are about uniform more than studies💀. got dress coded for wearing similar looking socks not from the schools uniform shop. i didnt get the one from the uniform shop cuz they all too expensive

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is preparing for workforce - when you good at your job, they will make you do everyone else's jobs too

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's like that in American schools too. My teachers asked me to tutor the struggling students. And I got teased and bullied.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Educational" systems everywhere primarily exist to produce obedient citizens. Those who are more intelligent and/or independent thinkers will never do well in institutions designed to "equalize" everyone. Wasn't it Lenin who said "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

School systems since the Industrial Revolution have been about compliance - no room in curricula for teaching moments or critical thinking. Like sausage factories.

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Rissie
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just Australia. Everywhere everything is built for mediocrities.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was fortunate enough to attend a Grammar School in the U.K. Not the kind of Grammar School that Americans think of but a higher level state funded school where the top 5% of kids were sent. Not sure if that even exists any more. It was considered elitist at the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, few school systems can properly deal with highly bright students. Many are more intelligent than their teachers who have fragile egos and lack the skills to challenge the students. The students know this and lose respect for their teachers and frequently, behavioral problems follow. It's best these students go to an advanced charter or private school.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually loved extra "work" because it didn't feel like work. Until high school, haha.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I often hesitate to talk about this too open, but ... you're right. I'm not the smartest of them all, but the incompetence and sheer neglect towards everyone whose trouble doesn't consist of not getting something. My relation to authority got shattered within the first week of school.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My English teacher in junior high told my grandparents that I need to "dumb it down because it makes the other kids look bad." My grandparents were livid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same is true in the U.S., and when you enter the workplace, it REALLY gets bad. If I did what you wanted, you should leave me alone!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was one of these kids. I was once accused of stealing something from the cafeteria. I didn't do it but got punished anyway. Punishment was in-school suspension. I was sent to a room by myself with one teacher, all day every day for a week. I was handed a week's worth of classwork for 7 classes. I sat down in my little cubicle and started working. I FINISHED 5 days' worth of work for 7 classes in an HOUR AND A HALF. with 98% accuracy. Yet, I was labeled the stupid one...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Myself not bright enough to skip grades, but always waiting. Same BS reward of "more work since he obviously enjoys it". EFFIN NO! I developed a bad habit of coasting to a B average, which totally killed my academic aspirations. K-12 system in North America designed to pound you down into a component of the factory machine.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plus you have to put up with all those creatures down there that can kill you!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most schools in the US used to have gifted programs but they got rid of them and expanded services for the other end of the intelligence bell curve. I kind of feel like it was on purpose...to dumb down the populace.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a byproduct of liberalism to be honest. The loser is celebrated by crushing the winners. There is little to no encouragement for poor performance or average performance to be improved upon, instead it gets celebrated while high performance is considered arrogant and discouraged. This is often perpetrated by winners who attained their position by working the system instead of hard work and they will do anything to make sure they keep their position. It's not just a symptom of liberalism, there are plenty of conservatives who learned from the opposites to work the system the same way.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Going from being homeschooled to public school in 11th grade (and in dual enrollment classes) has made me realize this. The American education system is not built for people who actually want to learn and apply their knowledge and it's frustrating as heck

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's rather an optimistic take on it. Just because that's the protocol doesn't mean more overt forms of "discouragement" aren't occurring.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s the parents responsibility to support bright kids in areas they excel. Teachers most likely don’t have time nor resources to even notice.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

about 6 to 8 hours a day, five days a week, a child is at school. For a quarter to a third of the time, it is the teacher's responsability.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Sad_But_Realistic said:

Expectations...

Sownd_Rum replied:

This is the killer. If you are "gifted", having an average life is seen as a failure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The secret is to not let on that you're gifted. Play it off as a fluke, or fake a counterpoint weakness that makes it seem less impressive. The metagame of life is far deeper than most of us realize.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Common sense is not a gift, it is a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it.

Dangerous_Mobile9188 , Frederick Dennstedt Report

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group YourFatherHere1 said:

Intelligence doesn’t always mean wisdom.

Therandomfox replied:

Intelligence is knowing how to bring back dinosaurs from the dead.

Wisdom is knowing that that's a bad idea.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Intelligence means knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that you don't use it in a fruit salad.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group They are often miserable, and able to thoroughly understand their misery and failures.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group All the “smart kids” that turned into smart adults are severely burnt out and need a break for everything

Collardile , Akban Martial arts academy Report

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Hard to find other people who think and/or feel as deeply as you do.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Not being inherently competitive but able to be crushed instantly by failure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter deals w this it's so sad to watch her get so discouraged and blame herself for everything. She's very intelligent emotionally and scholarly. She doesn't think she is though.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group It can be very lonely

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some structures in behaviour, relationships and communications are just annoying repeating circles and far too shallow Hard to blend in, Very often you feel just like an alien trying to adapt to the joy of lightweighted conversations Often seems to be some kind of arrogance but from this side of the fence its just pure deep sadness and loneliness- and the wish to be more like other people Not easy to be happy here in my mind

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Expectations

Never learning to study until it is too late

Being forced to learn outside of your age related interests

Being terrified of failure

Not being able to balance ambition and said fear of failure

Once again, expectations. My mother put so much pressure on me at such a young age I couldn't handle it. I have done well for myself as an adult, but will never be able to live up to those expectations set by her and others. I should probably go back to therapy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Never learning to study until it's too late." Yeppp. Cuz you can get perfect grades without reading the book or paying attention in class. Very related to the other list items about school not supporting smart students enough.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group The sad truth is that being smart isn't even a particuarly good indicator in living a happy and fulfilling life. You could be extremely smart and intelectually capable, but if you got beat up as a kid, your parents died, you developed some personality disorder etc., you're way worse off than someone well adjusted with a below average intelligence

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group There's different levels of "smartness" and different smart people go about life in different ways. But, i think universally young prodigies are typically isolated. They are at a level far above children their age, but are far younger than the people that match intellectually with (lacking life experience). Either way, a young prodigy can't connect with either group.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Many very intelligent young people are poorly stimulated and challenged. Without the proper mental exercise they're unlikely to live up to their potential.

Angel_OfSolitude , Glenn Fleishman Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even with it, we may choose not to live up to what *others* expect. Maybe we'd like to have fun, not just live according to our "potential"/"intellect", etc.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group It's sad to see dumb people making a dumb decision in front of your eyes and not be able to do anything but only give them advice. Most helpful advice are a waste.

Most dumb people argue a lot instead of reflecting as well using critical thinking. So you will never win an arguement against a dump or bias person. So just walk away and tell them they are right.

JimboTheArtist , John Greenfield Report

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group They don't always find ways of living up to their potential.

Immediate_Aioli342 , Vicchi Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"You can do better - you're smarter than this!" - "If I'm smarter, why don't you listen to me?" - "Don't be a smart-@ss!"

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Mental illness rates are dramatically higher -_-

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group We waste them. Our entirely social structure from schools to mortgages are design for people with very average intellectually abilities. Smart people have to deal with the daily stress of living in a system that isn’t built for them and loose a lot of their productivity and take a real hit to their mental health as a result. If we stopped subjecting them to standardised systems designed against them just imagine how much further we would have advanced as a species.

EDIT: Just a small edit to clear up some confusion. I’m not advocating for redesigning our social structure to suit only the smartest x percent of our population. For those who aren’t familiar with inclusive design (mostly talked about when talking about designing digital systems but the principle is cross applicable) the basic idea is to design systems that provide room for different people to be able to use/fit into the system equally well despite their differences. There is absolutely no reason why we all have to live the same way or why we should be forcing people to live in a world that doesn’t have room for people like them.

Extension_Drummer_85 , Dan Taylor-Watt Report

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Many are just suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect and don’t know it

moxeto , Sean Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We all do. In fact, brilliant people can be the worst about it. “I’m a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a classically trained cellist…therefore I’m qualified to speak at length and with authority about literally everything else!”

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group smart does not automatically mean:

- ethical

- empathic

- conscientious

- realistic

- creative

- prosocial

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group A lot of the “smart kids” in high school are being forced by their parents to succeed. When they become adults they have all the academic skills but little life skills and they struggle to succeed.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Lots of people will be jealous of them and resent them, including family members.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A rising tide lifts all boats-some families block your success, instead of being cheer leaders.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group I think truly smart people, those genuinely rare geniuses, are so smart that the rest of us can’t even comprehend it.

It must be a very strange feeling going through life knowing that most people just can’t see and understand the things you do.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not a genius-level example. I once had to explain in a business meeting for around 90 minutes why we couldn't add an inch to only one side of a square and have it still be a square. I assume this is what smart people in smart professions have to deal with all too often.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Intelligent people can't state that they're intelligent because people view that as a sign of not being intelligent. But also if you lord yourself around for being intelligent, there's the implication that you're belittling everyone around you by saying you're better than them. And people don't like that. If other people recognize a person as intelligent and respect that then there are no problems, but a lot of the times people won't do that because it gets in the way of their own pride (and if they do, then I find they're more likely to have more insecurities/less self-esteem). Then there's also the fact that intelligence is often conflated with success. Basically, people suck at gauging other people's intelligence, and that causes problems.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When trying to explain my expertise, my typical experience is that, or "That sounds way over my head. I could never understand." 🙄 Yes, you can! Unfortunately I've learned a lot of people want to believe they can never understand something.

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Feel they cant have fun because they analyze everything

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the fact that the previous post says loose not lose but if I point it out I’m a jerk but I can’t not see it and get annoyed when I’m just trying to read BP for fun?

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30 Unpleasant Things Very Smart People Have To Live With, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group Plenty of smart people will live their whole lives never realizing they're smart.

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