How old were you when you realised you're actually pretty dumb.

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Walk_on_by on Friday, March 14, 2025 and has 16 replies.
Too long for me, I think it was when I was 28 and trying to run my own bussiness and trying to do a pretty basic job and I just couln't really get my head around it all. I just conceeded at that point and then things started to unfold and it really explained a lot. I think I am even making peace with it now you know.

If you have already, how old were you and what triggered it? If you haven't, get on with it already.
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I've resisted the realization for the most part but gave in to some awareness in 2022 when I was 31 working at that factory. Lots of women were in more technical units of operation to avoid heavy lifting, and as much as I tried and studied the machines I operated, one that I operated for 2 years and could never get to run, the line would go to hell when I was operating something and I would make tons of excuses for myself about the reasons why-- the mistake was obscure and I'll remember next time, it was someone else's fault-- but bottom line I never saw anyone else have as much trouble with it as me. Dumbasses would come in brand new and pick up on things more quickly than me. I was treated like shit then got into a dumb jock heavy living position and was suddenly treated like a superstar. now I'm at a new job, almost at my 90 day evaluation in a girly technical position that I'm failing at and yesterday I cried and begged for a heavy lifting dumb jock spot so I don't get fired. I start training there today.

I can tell myself I'm smart all day based on test scores and literacy etc, but I've been making my living for a decade excelling in mindless manual labor or barely surviving in factory spots that anyone else can do, clinging onto the job by the sheer power of perfect attendance. on that mechanical level I fear I'm so behind its nearly a handicap
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had a post but weird it's not showing

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but anyway at 29 when my slow dumb brain connected that i'm like 5 months pregnant instead of all the weird rationalizations and imaginings i initially had 🤦🤦

and the week i'm due i watched this movie then around the part where a woman goes into labor, it triggered my own 🤦🤦:

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I actually discovered way too late in life how smart and brilliant I am… I was just always overly humble. Not to be so quirky and so fun but my life trajectory progresses differently than it does for normal people, almost backwards at times 😂 its the opposite of fun tbh, always misunderstood and out of place
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Everyday I'm reminded how much I have left to learn.

I love surprises like that, they humble me. 😊
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I was 5 taking a poop in the downstairs bathroom in our old house

I had just made the kids in the playground pick sides and told other kids they couldn’t sit with us

Then I was like omg those other kids have feelings to just the way I do

I thought we were just one with the universe all along
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In my 40s when i realised how much importance and energy I’d spent on romantic relationships. After the ”epiphany” i made a 360° turn in my life, woke up and focused on what really matters

We live and learn

(Hopefully) 😃
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Fairly young, being dumb has such cruel consequences
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I have a theory that dumber people are happier

Like higher IQ= miserable/depressed

maybe we're winning
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Posted by rhymesaurusss
I have a theory that dumber people are happier
Like higher IQ= miserable/depressed
maybe we're winning
🙏🙏
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I double dumb for different reasons.
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Posted by rhymesaurusss
I have a theory that dumber people are happier
Like higher IQ= miserable/depressed
maybe we're winning
"Ignorance is bliss"
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I used to think I'm regular (normal smart) when I was in my 20s but fact is - I was a complete idiot! I wasted so many good opportunities in life for being love crazed. I used to tie myself to a men who never deserved me in the first place and who were s complete waste of time. The fact that I would get so miserable about being dumped by someone 100 levels under me in every possible way was a painful realization of how dumb I used to be. I was desperate to stay with him to a point where I even accepted fwb arrangement that lasted for years! Guy was lower than average in everything - a refugee who speaks and acts like a hillbilly, listens to the hillbilly music I always despised, barely finished high school and was working as a security guard at night and in construction at days to be able to make a living at all. Mistreated me and never thought about me as a marriage material cause I wasn't a Muslim. Because I got involved with him I paused my studies for years, got involved with bad company, started working as a waitress to finance my stupidity of having race cars. That to me is the ultimate stupidity I made in my life. But I continued to be love stupid even after him cause I let once again someone ignore me while I cling to them for not being a Muslim like them and last drop is the fact that I handed over the appartment I had for nothing other than keeping someone with me cause I couldn't afford the renovation at a time and I desperately wanted us to have a place to be together. Yes we still are in it together but I regret giving it up so easily cause I could have invested in it later on and would have a property of my own now...all in all, I guess my stupidity comes out of being in love for the most part, otherwise I can say I'm pretty smart and do pretty good in life but this...this makes me a complete idiot in my 20s. Think my awakening to realization how dumb I was came around 32 and since then I've changed my mindset about love completely
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Posted by rhymesaurusss
I have a theory that dumber people are happier
Like higher IQ= miserable/depressed
maybe we're winning
Taurus
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I honestly felt I was dumb my entire life. As a child my family would say things like "You're really smart for a kid." I always thought they were lying to me, or mocking me in some way.
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Started at 20...and ongoing...
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