Grew up with everyone around me telling me how smart I am

>grew up with everyone around me telling me how smart I am
>now realizing that I'm probably only slightly better than average
why do parents and teachers lie to their kids telling them they're smart when they arent? it's one of the reasons I never tried in school and ended up nearly dropping out

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Who pays you to post this. what do you get out of shitting on yourself?

Because the average person is fucking dumb as shit and even being slightly above average makes you look like Einstein to them. I still have women tell me I'm intelligent/smart and I'm fucking 28 years old. Whenever someone compliments my intelligence I just assume they are double digit IQ.

>what do you get out of shitting on yourself
you must be new here

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I hope you realized they were being ironic. They only say shit like that to make you feel better. Imagine how awkward it would be to defeat a retard in an argument? it's easier to tell the child that he's right and be on your way. You've made him feel good, and he'll go on about his day and watch documentaries and read a few articles. He will then come back to you and tell you his little fact and you'll tell him again "Wow your'e so smart" just to repeat the process over and over again.

At least this way the person ends up like Op. Not a total fucking retard. Few people are actually self aware even the people who think are better than the average criminal or what not. Now you know Op, you're welcome.

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>he will then come back to you and tell you his little fact and you'll tell him again "wow you're so smart" just to repeat the process over and over again
I actually did do this when I was 14. Why did my stupid parents give birth to a low iq child like me who is ALSO UGLY?

It's because they didn't care about you. You were too annoying for them and they thought teaching you anything would be a waste of time. Some come to regret it and keep their children in their rooms until they're 30 years of age, others send them to the slaughter house and kick them out during snowstroms so they die under a bridge far far away from them.

Not even your parents loved you OP

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lol OP. This user is using your obvious low self esteem to make you believe this crock of shit. You're likely average intellect, but with incredibly low self esteem and bad social skills. People with bad social skills can be conned into believing bullshit cause you assume people won't lie to you like this.

slight better than average is smart. I took an IQ test with an actual psychologist and scored 118 on it, that puts me in the 88th percentile, meaning I am smarter than 87 people in a room of 100. So being just a little over the average (100) puts you into higher percentiles like that.

you'll never be the most clever, but you can always be a hard worker and try your best

I had a professor with similar IQ as you. He was tested in the military as a young man. He is also a big Rush Limbaugh listener and believes everything Rush says. I don't think OP realizes that higher than average intelligence doesn't mean much unless you're incredibly high IQ. I know some rednecks with average to below average intelligence and they could out survive most people in this country.

I'm actually "intelligent". In my country's equivalent to SAT I'm in the 99th percentile. Means I could study everything at every uni. Everywhere I go I get told how intelligent I am.

Memes or not, intelligence is useless on it's own. That kind of intelligence at least. If you're not an extremely extroverted social butterfly you're doomed to mediocrity. At this point I feel insulted when I get told I'm smart. WELL IF IM SO SMART WHY DONT YOU SUCK MY DICK INSTEAD OF BRAINDEAD CHAD REEEEEEEEE

I was put in the gifted program in 2nd grade and it demolished my self confidence and gave me major complexes. Its just full of kids who are smart yes but all of them were raised being told they're so special and so smart and the best, so they all be one highly competitive jerks or go heavy beta accepting they aren't as good as their peers. Plus?
>mom can you help me with this/mom I don't know
>well user you're smart, you figure it out.
As you get older you average out too so you really aren't hot shit anymore, and high school is ruff because I'm no genius but a lot of high school courses were just too easy, I was always in honors and AP classes were I was focused on being challenged not a grade, so I didn't do busy work. Yet I'd see these try hard with steam coming out of their ears furiously scribbling notes so they could keep up and spend hours studying to memorize, but that's all they could do. They never learned only memorized. "Wow user is so smart he gets straight A's" yes but how hard are anons classes? How hard does user work to manage that grade? Can user apply anything or does he memorize?

I don't really like IQ tests much, when I was a kid I tested 156 and my younger sister tested 166. So our whole upbringing she was put on the pedestal of higher intelligence, yet they say with age you even out and it falls. What's tge point of mapping IQ?

Yeah I feel like all IQ tests measure is how well your ability to do in school is. Since it was just basic math and comprehension questions.

Pretty much. I get all A's in school, including college, without much effort. I'm smarter than the average man, but I'm not big brain. I'm just better adept at some things than others. I think the rednecks in my area are a better overall person cause they got to grow up to learn how to be self sufficient and hunted all during their youth. I rather have those skillsets.

>Go through freshman and sophomore year of college thinking I'm smart
>Hit huge cognitive wall in junior year and no longer sure I can even graduate

You're embarrassingly bad at this. Never post again.

>considered smart
>pass uni exams with average grades because crippling anxiety
I'm sure I only get a double digit number if I did an IQ test

False. I scored high on an IQ test in late high school administered by a psychologist at the school, and my high school grades were shit, and I never went to college (partially because of how bad of an experience high school was for me).

never mind, i chug dick