My subconscious gave me the following answer, after lots of trying-to-get-it-to-give-me-a-satisfactory-answer:
”Everyone tells you that you’re super smart, not because you actually are (in reality, you are probably only slightly smarter than average) but because you have a variety of other traits which are correlated with smartness (i.e: having weird hobbies/interests, getting generally good grades, knowing a lot of very big and complicated-sounding words, talking as if my speech is being translated literally from dath ilan’s Baseline, and sometimes having trouble sleeping because i feel all weird and philosophical for no reason). In reality these traits do not indicate smartness, they indicate a brain architecture that deviates significantly from the average human brain architecture, and high intelligence is only one type of deviation. You just like to think you’re smart, because you like the connotation of the word smart more than you do eccentric. Which you are, by the way.”
This is useful, but I don’t know how I would “change the equilibrium” that is formed by the connotation that mainstream society has assigned to the word “eccentric”
Great response, first of all. Strong upvoted.
My subconscious gave me the following answer, after lots of trying-to-get-it-to-give-me-a-satisfactory-answer:
”Everyone tells you that you’re super smart, not because you actually are (in reality, you are probably only slightly smarter than average) but because you have a variety of other traits which are correlated with smartness (i.e: having weird hobbies/interests, getting generally good grades, knowing a lot of very big and complicated-sounding words, talking as if my speech is being translated literally from dath ilan’s Baseline, and sometimes having trouble sleeping because i feel all weird and philosophical for no reason). In reality these traits do not indicate smartness, they indicate a brain architecture that deviates significantly from the average human brain architecture, and high intelligence is only one type of deviation. You just like to think you’re smart, because you like the connotation of the word smart more than you do eccentric. Which you are, by the way.”
This is useful, but I don’t know how I would “change the equilibrium” that is formed by the connotation that mainstream society has assigned to the word “eccentric”