Do I Look Stupid?

Well put! I agree with you. I have dealt with people like this and it's truly a waste of ones time.

I agree with you too Fish Face. The thing is that it I might not mind so much if the people actually were clever but I know certain people who actually aren't very bright at all but like to believe that they are really clever and just will not accept that other people are considerably brighter and will even make things up to show that they are somehow better. It is ok to think you're clever if you are although if anyone was as bigheaded as me then that would annoy me! I do wonder, though, if there is something about me which makes people thing I must be stupid. It can be quite difficult you know because I am not quite clever enough for REALLY clever people but stupid people might think I was stupid by some things I say because they don't understand. There aren't many clever people around here but I am starting to find one or two!

I don't let people make me think I am stupid. I know how brilliant I am!:) I don't ever feel stupid because I know I'm not but it still can be frustrating and upsetting when some people appear to make the assumption that I must be stupid for some reason. Sometimes it's due to preconceived ideas of things such as where I'm from, what I do or what I have/haven't done but other times it seems to be for absolutely no reason at all. I guess it could be compared to preconcieved notions that fat people must be lazy and eat too much and people who are, say, not in employment or don't have degrees must be stupid. Anyway, thank you. You are true to your name.:) But don't worry, I might not be positive about everything but I have no doubt that I am not stupid but I think that might be what makes it so frustrating when people think I am!

Thank you dear. I know what you mean about University Types. At college, we called them "Oxford Types" because there were actually quite a lot of decent college people who went on to uni! However, the Oxford type doesn't always assume others are dim just because they haven't had the "right" education. I was referring more to those who actually are stupid and couldn't even spell university. I have noticed it is them who tend to assume I am stupid. I can't say I've had it from university types. Perhaps it's because the university types I have known knew me well enough to know I had the potential to do whatever they could do even if I had chosen not to.

Even people who know I'm not stupid (or at least ought to know) are like that with me sometimes. It seems there are some people who immediately assume I'm stupid but I don't know why. Just today someone made a comment which suggested that they didn't believe I could have achieved the things I was talking to her about. The worst thing being that I know this person is not very bright. She knows that my children are clever (at least she knows one of them is) but doesn't seem to understand that that is down to me because I am clever. I feel sorry for people like that in a way. You know the sort, they have below average children but think they are really clever and look for comparisons where their children come out on top.