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What do you mean by scarecrows?
What do you mean by scarecrows?
Most people who vent to someone else could care less about their intelligence, and more about how accepting they are.
The piece I always find lacking in these type of threads is the acknowledgement that you teach other's how to treat you. If you don't insist on having your needs met and allow someone to take and take from you....how is it all their fault? Of course, the basic counter to that argument is....but I do, and they don't listen....and my argument is still...and yet, you continue along like it is alright. There is only one person who can change the inequality or perceived inequality in a relationship, and that is the person who has the problem. Barring that, you have to learn to see that you gain something from this type of exchange and try and find out what that is.
I have had some say they like talking to me because I am so intelligent but have had others actually say I was too intelligent. I am not nearly as intelligent as I seem. Maybe this is what I should work on. I suppose I've been so annoyed with people who do this. It's not just a matter of humility--you have to be a real airhead to make some people comfortable around you... or pursuing you.[MENTION=9350]sentientsixpence[/MENTION] I think you need friends who are around your level of intelligence. I get the feeling people feel stupid around you... And most people have big egos which would hurt because of this.