Anyone else here so intelligent that they scare people? Are there any books/poems for this feel? Ever since I was little, I have always terrified my parents with my cognitive abilities. When I was 8, I once verbally destroyed my father in an argument so badly that our relationship has never been the same since that day. My teachers have always disliked me to a certain degree because I terrified them absolutely terrified them with my intelligence and knowledge, and of course, one hates what one fears.
When I was in an English class in high school, I remember monologuing about Shakespeare as the jaws of my teacher and fellow students dropped, their eyes wide and afraid because of the sheer depth and profundity of my intelligence.
In university, I have learned to tamp down my intellect, lest it scare off my possible sexual conquests, connections and professors. Now I know what you’re thinking – scaring off sexual conquests with your fucking mind? It should be the other way around, shouldn’t it? I too, felt, since I was young, that that should be the case and in some instances perhaps it may be but in my own my intellect is beyond the erotic, so fearsome that the people in my vicinity simple cannot withstand it without shivering in fear or apprehension: can a man like this truly exist? What is this man capable of? Can the human brain comprehend such a mind?
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> learned to tamp down my intellect
Can sort of relate, hyperlexic as a tot but far from a genius. Obsessed with words and reading, thousand upon thousands of books read. Lazy though(I just wanted to read) so dropped out of university and went the trade route. Vast knowledge acquired from years and years of endless reading. Stuck working with Tradies, who although decent lads only ever talk about garbage pop culture nonsense and sports.
I was always one of the most intelligent kids. Had the second highest scores in high school without doing anything. Everyone I know thinks I'm intelligent.
Then I went to university and met so many intelligent people with more dedication and more achievements than me. Took me down a notch.
>>78199335
I think you are confusing fear with despise my special friend