It probably meant “you said something smart that they agreed with.”
It’s quite common to get that kind of a compliment even if you say something relatively stupid they agree with.
I think your substituting your evaluation of smart for theirs. They thought it was smart, even if you didn’t.
Under such interpretation, yes, it’s likely it was often something they considered smart and I considered merely… socially expected of me to say.
It probably meant “you said something smart that they agreed with.”
It’s quite common to get that kind of a compliment even if you say something relatively stupid they agree with.
I think your substituting your evaluation of smart for theirs. They thought it was smart, even if you didn’t.
Under such interpretation, yes, it’s likely it was often something they considered smart and I considered merely… socially expected of me to say.