Have you ever been in a situation where you felt uncomfortable because of your high intellect? What was it?

Answer 1

i have and still do. i am highly educated in my career choice, intelligent and well rounded in general knowledge. i came from a very poor family, in a bad neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks. i got out. i have a handful of friends i still associate with and its gotten to the point we have nothing to discuss because they have no clue what im talking about in my field of choice (medical field) and they dont seem to care about current events. only when they can get off work and party. we've grown apart.

also, when i attended my ex husbands corporate events i felt out of place because when conversation came my way, no one knew what i was talking about and didnt seem interested in finding out. so i felt like an outsider. the medical field and the service industry are totally different. i didnt want to talk any more about my work and seem like i was trying to act more important because of my job. it was uncomfortable.

Answer 2

I don't know that I would go as far as considering myself as being highly intellectual, but I do have almost 3 yrs. of college credits and breezed right thru high school taking nothing but college prep courses, mainly. Seems like if you get in a deep conversation where the no. of men are more than the no. of women in the group, the men seem to resent the women that can answer more Q's with more accuracy than they can. I grad. from high school in '75, was in high school just after the radical late 60's, and back in those days, you were either a 'pothead' or an intellectual, you couldn't be both, and this opinion was shared by both men and women! I have been in lots of situations where I knew the answer to something, but held back from answering because I could 'feel' that I would be resented if I showed more sense than a mule. In those days, women were supposed to aspire to finding 'a man', marrying him, having his children, keeping his house, and in that ORDER, too!!!!!!, nothing more.

Answer 3

I was with a group of women once, none of us knew each other before hand. We were all around the same age (late 20s early 30s). We were having a good conversation until someone asked me what I did for a living. I told them I'm a college physics professor. It seemed like noone knew how to talk to me after that - it's strange, because I thought that all these women were plenty intelligent, even though a couple of them hadn't gone to college. But they treated me differently once they knew my occupation.

Answer 4

Practically every time I visit the 'Religion and Spirituality' section, I'm afraid.

As a primary education student, I sometimes have trouble dumbing down the content in classes. I believe the best approach is to do this to a balanced degree where the content is understood, but the students don't detect that you're doing it. I feel that this helps develop trust - they don't think you're underestimating them.

Answer 5

All the time, because I am extremely intelligent, and grow weary of all the ignorant people and their ideas, that exist in this world.

Answer 6

Nope.

Answer 7

nope that has never happened to me, actually the opposite has...

Answer 8

No not really,try "dumbing yourself down" near dumb people...