I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
I've had a Ph.D. in saying dumb things over the years.
I was always... naive enough to not know what I could not accomplish.
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.
I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.
I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.