immortalspark replied to your post “I heard my aunt asking how a sixteen-year-old honors student could be…”
I was always so confused when people judged me by my grades “you’re straight A, you shouldn’t have moral failings”. Like being a good parrot for the school system makes me a deity and above such things as human temptation?I’ve found that people assumed I had no problems because I got good grades and was kind of a nerd. I completely fell prey to the absentminded professor stereotype in the sense that I think that’s how others saw me, but that’s not how I was. I’ve always been booksmart, so that’s how I did well in school…I was a horrible procrastinator, incredibly disorganized, and almost never studied. People thought I was some kind of demigod (har har) who focused on intellectual pursuits and did well in everything.
I remember people were surprised to find out I even had a boyfriend in eleventh grade! It was as if that didn’t fit into their narrative about me.
Yeah, there is definitely a stigma with getting good grades. That “oh you’re smart, life must be so easy for you” thing.
I guess the public school kids saw me as the shy, quiet, super-smart teacher’s pet type. A lot of people seem to see me as cute and young and innocent, and naive and brilliant. Like I’m some kind of raw, newly formed brain they want to harvest and use for their own purposes.
The church school kids thought I was the rebel demon child from hell who watched science fiction and listened to rock music and STILL managed to get straight As. I heard years later that I was considered by parents to be “a bad influence”, which amuses me greatly, given my otherwise sweet and adorable reputation.
Which is it? BOTH muahaha. The duality of genius.
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