I honestly can say that I'm not sure whether I'm smart or stupid. It all depends on the society's mindset, which affects the person in question. If the majority of people which are around the same age group of that person are those who think that appearances are more important than thinking of your future, that getting a boyfriend or a girlfriend is much more important than studying, that people who work hard are geeks/nerds, then obviously if the person gets a B for a test, he would think that he's smart, because the people around him don't get the same. It's all about the number of people who gets the same results. If the majority of a school gets A in their subjects, a person who gets a B who think they're stupid, and a person who gets an A+ will think they're smart. And vice versa. If the majority gets a C, the Ds' will think they're stupid, and the Bs' and As' will think they're smart. I believe that yeah, every single person has a different rate of learning, but it's the teachers' responsibility to help those slower people, not the smart peoples' responsibility. Also, I think that smart people also have problems too, like dealing with expectations and stuff. Not all smart people are born smart, some really work hard for it and they achieved it. For me, I'm a little better because I have a good memory for things that I intentionally memorise, so I can quickly learn a topic and move on to another, but it's a different topic to be emotionally smart. For example, psychologists. If their partner is lying, they'd know, and they feel sad. I can say that I'm quite emotionally smarter than people, but that means I suffer more. That is the reason why I have depression and other shit going on with me, because I kind of understand how someone really thinks of me. So emotionally stupid people gets it better, because they're nicely oblivious. On a totally different topic, smart people may also be unable to do things that 'stupid' people are able to do normally. Cooking, gardening, caring for pets, doing chores, and other kind of stuff. They have a mindset that nothing else matters except for understanding what is going on in class. And you can't blame them. You can't blame smart people who looks down on the stupid ones. Blame their society and parents. And I think most smart people are actually kind and are willing to be friends with stupid people, contrary to what you said.
Who has it harder, smart people or stupid people?
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I honestly can say that I'm not sure whether I'm smart or stupid. It all depends on the society's mindset, which affects the person in question. If the majority of people which are around the same age group of that person are those who think that appearances are more important than thinking of your future, that getting a boyfriend or a girlfriend is much more important than studying, that people who work hard are geeks/nerds, then obviously if the person gets a B for a test, he would think that he's smart, because the people around him don't get the same. It's all about the number of people who gets the same results. If the majority of a school gets A in their subjects, a person who gets a B who think they're stupid, and a person who gets an A+ will think they're smart. And vice versa. If the majority gets a C, the Ds' will think they're stupid, and the Bs' and As' will think they're smart. I believe that yeah, every single person has a different rate of learning, but it's the teachers' responsibility to help those slower people, not the smart peoples' responsibility. Also, I think that smart people also have problems too, like dealing with expectations and stuff. Not all smart people are born smart, some really work hard for it and they achieved it. For me, I'm a little better because I have a good memory for things that I intentionally memorise, so I can quickly learn a topic and move on to another, but it's a different topic to be emotionally smart. For example, psychologists. If their partner is lying, they'd know, and they feel sad. I can say that I'm quite emotionally smarter than people, but that means I suffer more. That is the reason why I have depression and other shit going on with me, because I kind of understand how someone really thinks of me. So emotionally stupid people gets it better, because they're nicely oblivious. On a totally different topic, smart people may also be unable to do things that 'stupid' people are able to do normally. Cooking, gardening, caring for pets, doing chores, and other kind of stuff. They have a mindset that nothing else matters except for understanding what is going on in class. And you can't blame them. You can't blame smart people who looks down on the stupid ones. Blame their society and parents. And I think most smart people are actually kind and are willing to be friends with stupid people, contrary to what you said.