you think you are intelligent = you are psychotic??

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Has anyone ever treated you like you are psychotic just because you implied that you are an intelligent person?

Always.
They have to, for the sake of their egos.
This is America. Don't you know that we're all equal?

No, most people treat me as if I were an arrogant jerk, merely because I have a greater ability to perceive and understand the complex interactions of seemingly chaotic systems than thay do, and that I'm not affraid to inform them of my conclusions.

Last edited by Fnord on 07 Dec 2008, 11:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I look like a dumb blonde. Tends to come in handy when I really want people to leave me alone. But yeah when I imply that I'm an intelligent person I tend to get that "yeah sure you are " reaction from people until I prove myself. I don't think they think I'm psychotic as much as they think I'm clueless.

Constantly.

It may be the result of mixing my apparently childlike mannerisms and behavior with the long strings of information coming out of my mouth. They think I'm just saying a bunch of gobbledy-gook.

What exactly does "treated you like you are psychotic" look like?

I underemphasize my intelligence in speech and simply perform as I am. Word gets back to me that people think I'm pretty smart.

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Please explain how one is "treated you like you are psychotic".
Perhaps if I knew what the behavior is I could better answer this question.

Meee tooo

Professors can't seem to understand why I'm insulted by the offer of sex in exchange for them allowing me to be on board. They seem to assume I got my degree out of some accident of nature, and that I am being uppity by expecting a real educational, mentoring experience with them. It's not even about the sex, really, but the fact that, sex or not, they seem to expect that they weren't really going to give me real work to do or hold me to regular standards.

Perhaps they think they were doing me a favor by offering someone they think is clueless an easy ride. They seemed truly baffled when I was furious that the work wasn't real or they were using the office hours to stare at my body instead of talk about academic topics. I think they truly had no sense that I had an actual intelligence. They acted like I was crazy when I complained that the work they gave me was insubstantial, etc, and that I didn't want any easy A's, etc. The stuff I got to do wasn't even meaningful enough to interest me, and I am interested in a lot of things.

This is exactly how they acted: if you think you're intelligent, we think you're delusional.

Ephemerella, I wish I had your problems.

I think there's very little scope in daily life to demonstrate intelligence. Most of the time when people say someone is clever, they mean "educated" or "knowledgeable" rather than "intelligent" in the "able to understand and approach complicated problems" sense.

LOL. Unfortunately, I am unable to lie or cheat. That puts a crimp in things.

And the professors in question (perhaps unsurprisingly) were ones that no honest woman would have had sex with (otherwise they wouldn't be trying to make deals with students for sex using their power).

The last one, I loved very dearly because he was my teacher and I loved the subject, etc. But he was physically a slob, with no muscle tone anywhere, fat, untrimmed hairs sticking out of strange places, shabby suits and he was clearly some kind of infantile submissive (sexually). I was attracted to him and loved him as my teacher, but I would have had to have been given a date rape drug to ever actually climb in bed with him.

Being unable to lie makes those kinds of situations a little touchy. What do you say, "You know, Dr. Healy, I just might be able to do something with you if you cleaned yourself up a little bit and maybe bought a book on how to have sex with a woman." It was kind of like a sitcom sometimes.

If I thought about it, I could probably write a pretty funny screenplay about the female Asperger engineering student who couldn't lie, that would have academics rolling in laughter.

I'd watch that.

That goes on all the time. We are like cattle thanks to the media and "societal norms". When someone thinks differently about something, he is "crazy" or "stupid" or "dangerous". Einstein, Mozart, Galileo, Da Vinci, and many others were ridiculed and labeled as crazy. But they turned out to be among the smartest of people. All my life I've been called weird, strange, or crazy and I used to feel bad that I couldn't be "normal". But after years of seeing the world and people who are "normal", I am glad I am different since I don't want to be anything like the "normal" people who are in-the-box, lemming squares. Now when someone says I'm weird or crazy I take it as a compliment. "You're damn right I'm weird and I'm glad I'm nothing like other people."

It means, they treated you in such a way that they gave the impression that they perceived you as being delusional about your level of intelligence.

Oh, ok.

Answer: No- but then I'm just a dumb country hick with no edu-muh-cation.