being a genius would be sad

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<p>Sorry, I don’t know what happened. I press the space bar and suddenly it said I posted. So this is a continuation from my above post. </p>

<p>IT IS SO UNBELIEVABLY FRUSTRATING to be in a class and understand everything completely, and have to wait for everyone else to understand. The only thing that kept me in the least interested was math class. The problem is that after Calc BC, high school doesn’t have anymore to offer. It was hard to explain my A UU to my parents. (The A is the grade I got, and the two U’s were for my work habits and cooperation.) </p>

<p>It’s so frustrating to be smarter than your teachers. I literally had to teach my chemistry class because my teacher was a washed out opra singer that knew very little about the subject. My biology teacher had to ask me questions because he knew **** about anything. Here I am at 15 thinking *** use is high school when everyone around me is so inept. I was known as the “boy in calculus” or the “genius boy” when all I wanted to be known as was ME. I used to be extremely immature and hated when people asked what math class I was in, especially when they knew the answer already. Because of this I really had few friends (outcasts) and wasn’t very happy. So what did I do? I dumbed myself down for these incompetent people. And guess what? It worked. I mellowed out, went through puberty, gained a lot more friends, became socially adequate, and actually started having fun being in high school. My old friends hate me because of it, and at the end of the day I still feel that high school has failed me and wasted my time. </p>

<p>During summers at CTY when I was around nerds and took actual challenging classes I felt at home, I felt alive because I was learning. (I know it sounds corny, but it’s true.) But in my 11th and 12th grade classes, I just sleep through them. </p>

<p>Bottom line: All that being smart has done for me is make me wonder what the **** am I doing here. I’m stuck in high school because of the structure of our society, and I fear I’ll be stuck in college doing the exact same thing I am here- wasting my life. </p>

<p>I just don’t understand why these people around me think yelling “baaaaaaaah” from the back of the class is funny or how it makes them “popular”. I’m forced to be around these bigots, and I think their stupidity has definitely worn off on me.</p>

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<p>Intellectually I did feel alone. All middle/high school is about is being popular, and everyone knows being smart doesn’t make for a popular kid. Instead everyone idolizes the idiot that can shoot a ball through a hoop, nevermind the fact that four years later he’ll be flipping patties for minimum wage.</p>

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<p>Being intelligent means problem solving. If you want to be popular just figure out the problem and the solution.</p>

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<p>I did. Acted dumb. I was surprised how well it works.</p>

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<p>You don’t have to act dumb, just leverage your intellect for social gain. For instance, if you are good at patterns try to identify behavioral patterns and use that information to benefit you socially.</p>

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<p>True genius can be crippling. I know this because I’m a true genius. I’m also crippled. </p>

<p>Really funny jokes aside, the world is not so romantic or beautiful if one analyzes it too deeply. I am very smart and I find that if I dwell on my smartness for too long I become irritable. If I try to use my smartness to do battle with the truths of the universe I become depressed.</p>

<p>Geniuses should only behave as much when they’re alone. In all other situations they should be trying to get laid.</p>

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<p>i agree with this. analyzing human behavior is a hard enough challenge to satisfy anyone’s intellect for a very long time :slight_smile: just don’t start thinking about the purpose of life itself or you get depressed</p>

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<p>Actually, when Hawking first was diagnosed, he feared the loss of his genius and so took an IQ test to make sure he was still smart.</p>

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<p>Huh. You would think that a man as smart as Stephen Hawking would know that ALS doesn’t effect cognitive function. I guess knowledge and intelligence are independent of each other.</p>

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<p>The good thing about being intelligent is that you can use your intelligence to fix your problems. I don’t see why that’s sad.</p>

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That’s only sad if you feel like you MUST change the world, if you feel like you have some incredible responsibility because of your genius. If you say “screw the world,” and decide to use your intellect to further your own goals, you can only be glad to have such a wonderful resource at your disposal.</p>