my childhood had a dangerous combination of me knowing i was real smart and also getting pounded over the head with the message that my views of the world were worthless and untrustworthy. this led to majestic crests of cringetopia that took me years to crawl down from
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I don't think I was very smart but this is the most relatable tweet in the history of tweets
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Parents: *put kids through an education that's better than what they had*
Kids: *apply and express thinking habits facilitated by said education*
Parents: How dare you challenge me?!
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I was born smart but raised stupid. I had to climb out of a hole of inculcated ignorance.
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My experience was in a similar region... smart & lacking the restraint not to challenge. Still have this problem.
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I don’t want to make assumptions. How would the knowing you were smart but being taught to not trust your take lead to cringe? I think I can somewhat relate depending on what you mean by this