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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is giving me Fredo vibes insisting she's very "smaht" because other people just aren't picking up on it.[/quote]

Who said no one is picking up on it?  Many people have called me smart or highly intelligent or even genius IRL- but I should have known a DCUM thread would end up in the same "OP is full of themselves!!!" circle jerk that happens every damn time on here.  So absolutely pointless and tiresome.  Why people on here are absolutely triggered and unable to function when someone mentions a strength or talent/gift they have is baffling.  Some deep psychological wound, I guess. [/quote]

Not PP but I don't think people are triggered or offended by intelligence, it's just that lots of DCUMers went to elite schools, work intellectually demanding professional jobs, know lots of very smart people, and MOST of these smart people do not have the problem that OP is describing. I went to an ivy, many of my friends went to top colleges, and no one would talk like OP about how they are too smart to hang with their friends. The only ones I can think of who do in my own network are the ones who are too intense and take themselves too seriously. It's not an intelligence gap, it's a soft skill/relationship-building deficit. They can carry a casual conversation fine but there's a barrier or air of self-righteousness and megalomania that is incredibly off putting and makes people not want to engage in a vulnerable or really deep way.[/quote]

OP here- but I think this is part of the issue.  I didn't go to an ivy. I had the test scores for an Ivy but was pretty lazy in high school and didn't care much about what college I went to because I had a ton of stress I was dealing with at home.  My friends from high school that I still interact with are generally really stimulating and provide me with the kind of conversations that I crave, but most of the people from my college or who I've met from that network simply arent that smart and I feel like conversations have become almost like pulling teeth at this point. I do think if I could interact with some people who are more intellectually gifted that I could scratch that itch, but it seems that ship has mostly sailed and I'm kind of adrift on an island, with no immediately obvious solution.  I work almost completely from home, so I cant meet people at work, and it's hard to see how I could enter into those kinds of relationships that would be intellectually stimulating.  That's what I really crave.  And then, of course, someone who went to an Ivy but doesn't have "nerdy" interests, because I dont share those.  So I feel it's kind of a hard thing to find, considering all these points.[/quote]

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