When Someone Wrongfully Assumes You Are Dumb
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All the time because I like to make stupid (funny) remarks, and a lot of people think that I think my jokes are really true statements. I don’t bother to clarify anything I prefer to remain incognito!
That’s genius
Honestly same whenever I stick to a hard college class and don't drop. There are usually a few people who make comments about how they didn't expect me to finish. I've even had teachers tell me I seemed like the type of person to drop after the first few weeks, but when they say this, it's always in a kind of happy surprised way.
In high school I had a Spanish teacher who I knew was out to get me. My classmates even put on a little protest after her most egregious act:
She gave me a 62% on a fully thought out presentation, and she gave a 60% to a guy who clearly forgot to do the presentation, clearly had not read his book, and made a fool of himself presenting.
Everyone except the teacher agreed that my presentation was worth WAY more than 2% than a guy WHO FORGOT TO DO THE ASSIGNMENT.
Anyway fast forward to the next year and I'm gonna win "Excellence in AP Spanish" award.
The new teacher who had already told me I was going to win this award was walking down the hallway with my old teacher.
She told her I had the highest grade in the class and I was going to win the award.
She literally said:
"Really?! HIM??"
She looked furious during the award ceremony but I stopped caring about her a while ago....
I work in the Security profession.
People assume that we are either stupid, or ex-cons.
We are actually required by the states we operate in, to have spotless criminal records.
same in street-sweeping, someone asked me if I was doing time and i said 'no i am actually doing thing by my own free will' they left after that lol
@@velvety2006Sounds like something a hostage would say lol
Not all states..many let ex cons be security "officers" As long as it's an unarmed position and it's been x years since their sentence was completed but certain crimes disqualify
Many people have felony convictions due to abuuse by officers. I know one person. Who was arrested and convicted for resisting arrest for invoking his Right to have am attorney present for questioning and Right to remain silent....the cop then slipped and fell when he threw him to the ground to arrest him for "resisting" and battery to a law enforcement officer caus8ng bodily injury was added to the resisting charge and it tool half a decade after he served 3 years to get the conviction thrown out. Meanwhile cops parties almost ALWAYS HAVE ALL THEIR ATTENDEES leave DWI including frequently minors and narcotic use.
I automatically distrust anyone that comments about "their spotless record" as being a pass-around for patrolman on boring nights to "pass the time" while the cops find someone else to terrorize and belittle
No, but I had people assume I was smart before. I soon proved to them how incredibly wrong they were.
During HS I had this teacher accuse me of plagiarism without any proof. She simply said it was true and gave me a zero score. When confronted, she put my essay on a software that detects plagiarism to prove she was right. Turns out she wasn't and she had to retract herself anyway. All of that because she didn't think sb like me could've wrote that essay (her words, not mine). The worse part is: My essay wasn't even THAT good. She made it clear her suspicious came from the fact her fav kids did not score well, so how could I "beat" them? I was the "lost" kid, wasn't I? It's true I did not pay attention to her lectures, I would be always either sleeping or drawing, but not to sound petty, you're not supposed to be learning how to write propperly when you're almost finishing HS. It's not difficult to imagine I probably already knew how to write. Some teachers tend to look down on their students abilities, specially if they don't comform to "school hierarchy" or look a certain way.
I had a doctor assume that I was...not dumb, but ignorant one time. I'd broken my ankle, and when explaining my injury she began "See, there's two bones in your lower leg." I grinned broadly and replied "Yes ma'am, I'm a biology major. I broke the end of my fibula, didn't I?" LOL, I know she wasn't trying to be ugly, but I had a laugh about it later. I had indeed broken the end of my fibula, and joke's sort of on me because I broke it doing something stupid!
"Has anyone wrongfully assumed you were dumb?"
no
Not wrong
In high school i was in the top science class but got kicked out down to a lower class group a friend in the class was boasting about how hes going to get a much better score in an upcoming test than me he was really smug about it, thought i would be no competition, so we do the test, he boasted he got 55 out of 66 questions correct, i showed him my results. 66 out of 66 perfect score, i was only kicked out of the top science class because i refused to do the work but i was still learning my lessons as i loved science xD
I once got a job because I'm a natural blonde, not because of my looks, but because the boss really did think all blondes are stupid. He was the manager of an HVAC business jointly owned by his wife and her brother. He was syphoning money from the business into his personal account, knew his wife was getting suspicious, and needed someone to take the fall for him.
My job pretty much consisted of doing nothing except answering the phone when the other office worker went to the bathroom. Two weeks into my job, I was given a full set of keys, and the boss showed me the company safe and loudly told me the combination, so that everyone heard him tell me. Then he gave the other worker the rest of the week off, and announced he was taking the rest of the week off to take his wife to NYC. There would be no one at the office but me, and occasionally his BIL, who he also thought was an idiot. After the boss left I went straight to the BIL. It was risky, but I didn't know who else to tell. He called his sister. They took the contents out of the safe and asked me to play along.
The bosses wife called a lawyer to get the bosses assets frozen. My boss and my coworker got caught during their trip. Boss got busted not only for embezzlement, but also for illegally hiring convicted criminals on work release and sending them to clients homes. He was implicated in numerous thefts from clients homes when the work release employees told detectives what their jobs had really involved. My coworker turned on him as well, so she wouldn't get jail time. The wife divorced him snd took everything in the settlement. All he got to call his own was several years in prison. He only lived a couple years after his release.
He might have gotten away with it if he hadn't tried to hire a dumb blonde.
Don't you just love it when a person's own bigotry is what screws them over?
R/thathappened
amazing!
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling dumb blondes!"
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling brats!
The other day someone called me stupid. I told them that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary. They checked a dictionary
Yoooo, Nice
Used to take Law Ed after JROTC and lunch in highschool, and Id always feel super sleepy afterwards. Our teacher, Coach Halt, had a rule where he wouldnt stop us from “laying down” in our desks if we didnt really care about how that’d impact our grade, and so Id always just close my eyes and rest up at my desk during lectures while listening in and glancing up at the board every once in a while. I remember this one time, while everyone else in the class thought I had passed out, another student made a joke about how I was always asleep, and Coach Halt responded by telling him that I was one of the highest scoring students in the class. I remember sitting there quietly chuckling while listening to how confused everybody else was by that information.
Im about 6'4 and built like a vending machine. Most folks think im a stereotypical "big guy dumb jock", particularly when they hear im into sports and what not.
Im a qualified engineer
Meet the Heavy
@@thisisastrobbery363almost exactly like that, except Misha Majored in Russian Literature
Someone declared me a mediocre mind at best and based his conclusions on reading of my date of birth through the numerology
The UA-cam algorithm story is so freaking hilarious! I wonder if it affected his career once everybody realized he was a perv
I get this all the time at work. I book hotel rooms over the phone in a call center, and I can't begin to tell you how many people can't answer simple questions, and act like I'm dumb for needing an answer, or for not knowing every single city across the country. Rates are based on availability, so I won't know the rates until I put their dates in, but some people will argue with me that they just want the rates, and I should just tell them. Some will even assume I'm a mind reader, calling the direct line for reservations and expecting me to know they're currently in Durham NC, and it takes me asking them 3 times for them to tell me where they are. Then there's the people with thick accents and very long foreign names, who for some reason expect me to know how to spell their names. I have no issue with people with thick accents, but the ones who can't be understanding and slow down in talking, and refuse to use phonetics when spelling their name out, even though I've read the spelling out phonetically 4 times back to them and still haven't been able to get it right, just irritate me so much. Like, dude, if you would just slow down and use phonetics, you would already have a room booked and we'd be done by now! And then they pull the SAME crap with their email, and if I don't get that in right, you're not going to get your confirmation email. Yet somehow I'm the dumb one for not being able to hear them through their thick accent and them slurring every letter together because they're talking too fast?
I actually get this a lot.
Back in Elementary School I was talking about things from Star Trek that didn't really exist at the time as was told, that's just fiction, that stuff could never really exist for real. Today a lot of the technology we were talking about actually does exist for real including Cell Phones, Ipads, flat screen TVs, and 3D Printers.
I was literally put in special ed because my teachers thought I couldn't read. In actuality I had undiagnosed insomnia that was making it hard for me to sleep at night and would often be too tired durring my morning English class. My parents even tried to tell them I was reading just fine at home, even reading books above my grade level. My parents had gotten Hooked on Phonics for my older brother who actually does have a learning disability so I had been reading since I was 4 from material meant for a 9 year old. My dad also worked as a custodian at the high school and brought home some school work meant for teenagers that I was able to do in kindergarten. I didn't understand all of it, there was multiplication and division I hadn't learned yet but I think if I had been home schooled I could have graduated early instead my education after the 3rd grade got stunted because I was never taught anything new after that point. They just kept reviewing things I already learned.
Also one of my friends in high school really didn't get sarcasm. I tend to jokingly take things literally and he thought I actually didn't understand what was being said. Like "What's up?" The sky. "That wasn't a literal question just a greeting" of course I already knew that but "the sky" was a more fun answer.
Funny enough when I was working in theater I met a guy who had a similat sarcastic sense of humor and a girl we worked with who did not get sarcasm. We could be sarcastic with each other and understand eachother perfectly but she'd have no clue if were actually serious or joking.
I was an instructor at an engine manufacturing plant. Smug as gal thought she knew everything about a specific machine. She wasted an hour of production time and I simply walked up and pulled the e stop. She actively fought with my supervisor and got fired
Had a similar experience to the 8th grader my freshman year of highschool (9th grade.)
Basic Science teacher was a bit of an arrogant prick that had this habit of always answering any question, even if he didn't know the answer. When he didn't know, he'd just talk around in circles, trying to sound smart, without actually answering then ask if we understood.
So, whenever we didn't feel like having class students would just randomly start asking him questions, hoping to ask ones he didn't know because he'd spend most of the class just BSing trying to sound smart.
One student asked a question he didn't know and after his routine when he asked if we understood, I actually corrected him. I know now that was a bad idea, but I was a bit numb then. Anyway he literally said my answer was "stupid nonsense."
Next day at class we sit down and the physics teacher is standing at the back of the room with her arms crossed glaring at the science teacher. He started the class stating the correct answer to the question, physics teacher continues staring until he grudgingly apologized to me.
Turns out after class he'd been in the teacher's breakroom talking about the whole thing including how I had such a stupid answer. The physics teacher happened to be there and asked what my answer had been, then informed him I had been correct and demanded he apologize to me in front of the entire class. I really wish she hadn't done that, the rest of that year was hell and I had another class with him two years later. He didn't like me any more by then, probably didn't help that I had 100s in both classes with him.
Clearly he learned nothing. Probably still hasn't.
"How long has it been raining?" that sentence is the epitome of English culture.
I work with this one girl and used to work with someone else (a guy) that are basically the "if you don't know somebody that *blank*, than I have news for you" levels of dumb. Now I don't know if she can tell (I'm not that inconsiderate unless she wows me), but he is the projects confidence where possible type but did admit he wasn't the smartest when his masculinity wasn't being threatened.
Update: My family came in the other day and had the girl as their waitress. The best word to describe how they described her was "flighty."
It’s happened more than once. I’m not exactly neurotypical, and some very common tasks and concepts are very difficult for me. But I excel at pattern-matching and abstract problem solving, so I score really high on IQ tests. Sometimes people think I’m not too bright when they see me working at my family’s restaurant. What they often don’t know is I have two college degrees and over a decade working as a computer programmer. I don’t let it bother me regardless.
A friend wanted to introduce me to a co-worker of his over dinner. The guy asked what I was in school for. I answered, “Computer engineering.” He said, “Really!?” After a long pause I realized it wasn’t rhetorical, so I said, “Yes…girls can do computers too…” He smiled and said, “Well apparently!” as if he was genuinely surprised to have met a female computer engineering student. By the end of dinner, my friend was so embarrassed by this guy he never mentioned him to me again.
I once went to buy a program at a store, a word processor which could write in japanese characters, hirgagana, katakana and kanji, the person selling assumed i knew nothing about computers, and should need buy a basic training from her so i would not spend my time in front of a pc doing nothing better than play solitaire, it was times of early internet. I worked as sysadmin and it support at the time..
My father was an enlisted man in the military, starting in the Navy, then moving to the Army to become a Warrant Officer. My mother was an elementary school teacher.
Soon after my dad had been posted at Fort Riley, KS, and we got a home in nearby Manhattan, my dad threw a party and invited everyone in his unit, up and down the chain. That included the young lieutenant and the captain above him. The lieutenant had a wife, Beth, who was going to Kansas State to get a degree. She came to the party, but was in the middle of writing a paper for class. My mom let her use the typewriter at home (this was 1979) to finish her paper.
Beth came out after typing the paper and handed to mom to proofread. The captain, assuming that the wife of an enlisted man was similarly less educated, asked why Beth gave mom the paper and not him.
"Kathy is a teacher. She has a degree," Beth replied.
"Oh?" said the captain as he turned to mom. "And what podunk school did you go to?"
Mom fixed him with her teacher's glare and asked, "Is Michigan State University 'podunk' enough for you?"
The captain shut up, moved to the other side of the house, and he was NEVER invited back for any future parties.
I have to deal with the opposite. I'm pretty good at bullshitting my way through most situations so people have a habit of thinking I'm smarter than I am. I try to tell them I'm dumb, but they always assume I'm just being self deprecating. I'm not, I'm dumb as hell.
I get it all the time. I'm the Chief Engineer on a river boat casino. Because of the work I do people think I'm dumb. One day we had a employee empowerment meeting. The HR director asked everyone to write something no one knew about them. So I wrote down i have an IQ of 143. So she pulled what I wrote down out of a hat. So people had to guess. Everyone guessed everyone else. So she asked the person that wrote it to stand up. When I stood up people started laughing. So the next thing we had to do was figure out some puzzles. Well I completed mine in seconds. She said they must have something wrong with it. So I proceeded to walk around the room and finish every person's puzzle with in seconds. She stood there dumbfounded and proceeded to say you do have a higher IQ. People don't realize I have a Masters in mechanical engineering. Everyone looked at me differently after that. I actually have a Batchelor in nursing. When people find out everyone ask why don't I be a nurse. I tell them I don't want to take a 40k year pay cut.
That's never happened to me before. I've had people assume I was smart though.
In college there was this reception for people who made the Dean's list (high GPA). There was this girl that I had talked to through friends, and it was usually humorous, light interactions. She had this uniform and a name tag at the event. We started talking, catching up, when she asks me where my uniform is and that I need to help her with the catering.
I said no I'm here as an attendee, not part of the catering crew....
She was completely shocked. And said as much.
"YOU made the DEAN'S list??"
Anyway after a while I just sat down and watched as she served us our food lol
No one has wrongfully assumed I'm dumb, but plenty of people have wrongfully assumed I'm smart, lol.
People always assume that I’m smart but in fact I m rubbish in maths 💀
Im a bodybuilder (as a hobby) so people assume that I'm a dumb meathead and it doesn't help that I have a slight southern accent and pretty young in my proffesion. I was supervising a construction job site as the customer wanted something very specific (I am an architect). There was a subcontractor who thought he was hot shit and was trying to explain, very incorrectly, how the project was going to be built. I asked him politely to hand me the plans so I could explain, he said straight up said to me, "I doubt a dumb hick could understand this, don't push it kid". Some of his guys chuckled but I kept my cool. "Your right what do I know? I'm just the architect and supervisor here afterall". That shut him up quick, and the silence was deafening. He wasn't there for long either as he had violated contract. Good riddance
This is an apocryphal story as I don't remember this happening, but my fourth grade teacher told my parents he believed I was, in his words, r-tarded. That is until, we took a field trip to a planetarium and I supposedly got up and started to correct the presenter. It's possible this occurred as I decided I wanted to be an astrophysicist at that time and started reading a lot about it.
I have an IQ of 146, I’ve always been neurodivergent and a little freedom fighter waging war is against injustice. So an elementary school they thought I must be mentally disabled or something because I was rebellious, when they discovered I was actually a literal genius they expected so much more than me and were far more abusive, so I just acted in a way that made people think I was dumber than I was for the rest of my life lol. It backfires on me sometimes but overall it has served me more than it has hindered me.
Sometimes acting dumb is better one less person to talk to you
In 5th grade, I was in P.E. and we were doing the PFTs and the coach asked the class "have we done the push-up test yet" and my class said yes but I spoke up and told him that we didn't do it, he said to me to stop lying and my class started thinking and said that I was right. The P.E. teacher still kept saying we did it so I told him to check. I proved him wrong.
Unfortunately no.
Everytime someone thought I was dumb, I proved them right ☹️
Supervisor: You're always saying you're such a good speller.
Me: I also say I make mistakes like everyone else, but yeah, I do pride myself on my spelling skills.
Supervisor: Well, you forgot the "N" in "Rochester."
Literally everyone in my school used to assumed I was dumb just because I was really quiet. When I was 10 I suffered from social anxiety so I dont talk. All my teachers especially my english teacher really hate me. She would call me dumb multiple times and said I have no future. But I proved her wrong by getting 100% in my english test. Even her target students didn't get an A. And there was a time when a girl challenge me to guess the word "door" in english and I stared at her with confused expression. Bitch Im not THAT dumb
I am an engineer. I was dispatched to a project. The staff which was at the construction site from our company were all without exception external freelancer. The construction was already going since 2 years and the time for commissioning started. This is why I was dispatched.
The commissioning was lead by another company.
When I arrived, I asked the staff of the leading company questions to familiarize myself with the site and the equipment. They thought I am totally inexperienced. One of them asked me something like “is this your first project”? Clearly disrespectful.
Later I understood why. The freelancers my company hired for this project where all incompetent. The people of the leading company assumed that I fall into the same category.
I single handedly saved the commissioning of the plant. Nobody at site had the knowledge I brought with me. This project was still a mess and I hated it. It’s horrible to work in a team of incompetent people.
I am autistic and in the supermarket I tend to go none verbal. Am as polite as possible, but still non-verbal.
Unfortunately my sister comes with me one day and we are talking as we go around, I get a few looks from staff and at the checkouts we're still talking and the checkout guy exclaims surprise that I can talk, not been back there since
I'm autistic as well and normally keep to myself.
Management doing management things again :
*notices 0 errors and overproduction*
Must fudge their numbers, noone is that good
*Replaces guy with nepotism*
Guy comes back at a higher position
*surprised pikachu *
All the time, people underestimate me yet at the same time have high expectations of me. even if I prove I’m right I don’t get credit.
I do believe that is called gaslighting.
I'm autistic. I'm pretty smart but in high school some people thought I was stupid cause I needed extra help in some classes. One person even said "you're so stupid" & when my friend called then out on them falling behind in math class (I excelled in both math & art) they were horribly embarrassed
I was a leader at a co-ed branch of the Boy Scouts. I was a teenage girl, and I was in charge of an expedition into a large cave system. One of the scoutmasters, about 50 years old, demanded to know who the leader of the crew was, as I clearly wasn’t it. I asked why, and he said “there are no female scout leaders” and to “just go home where you belong. Go play with dolls or something.”
He ended up breaking his leg, and I ended up bandaging him up and army-carrying him out of the cave. His scouts, all boys under 13, were clowning him the entire time. He was kicked out of the organization. The boys were very respectful.
A co-worker of mine. I work as a cashier and one day I was chatting with a customer and the co-worker,who doesn't like me but is rude to everyone,and really hates my chatter. I have anxiety. I have depression and PTSD but I am a darn good cashier. So,I'm making a customer laugh,by telling a story about my puppy,and after the lady leaves my co-worker pipes up with,"I can see you're going to be loquacious today so I'm going to the other register." I don't mention it often but in 4th grade I could read at an 8th grade level. I immediately whipped around and said,"Yes I fully intend to be loquacious,chatty and talking a lot all day." I smirked as she went red faced and said,"What stinks is you're going to be here til 6 and I'm here til 5 so you get to listen to my chatter all day!" I did complain to a manager but I made a point of explaining to her that I took speed reading at a local library,I had a rather extensive vocabulary and if she was going to insult,degrade or attempt to embarass me she should probably be aware of my ability to understand the insult rather well. (I also surprised her because I am fluent in ASL and French.)
All the time. I have a very southern accent and I moved to Utah. So many people thought I was dumb
I worked for a TV service provider in early 2000's and one of my customers was a doctor she didn't have her televisions at her house yet.... when I said if you tell me what brand if tv she had I could go ahead and program her remote...she said I'm a doctor i can program a remote...I smiled and said here's my # if you decide it's too much trouble....a week later her husband called me asking why I didn't program the remote??? I didn't feel like throwing her under the bus so I just said the TV wasn't there but that's why I left my number..
So I’m a comic book and science nerd and my uncle always would doubt me
One time while keeping a straight face I explained to him why some of his puppies look different and my mother just pointed “yep there your answer “
I literally surprised myself saying that out loud but than again felt like it was natural
Explaining how one puppies may have the father fur coat and the other puppies may have a mix of the mom and dads fur and maybe a mutation for eye colors
Of course everyone is too stupid to assume that I am dumb... Cuz in fact, I am super dumb.
I had a "friend" kind of unintentionally in high school who latched onto me even though I only ever wanted to be left alone (I just feel more comfortable without people) but she'd always treat me like I was dumb, even though outwardly I never showed it save for not doing homework because I thought it was stupid and I never learned anything from it.
So we get to the standardized tests portion of the year and I pass both the math and english easily because these tests are dumb. Meanwhile she failed one of them. She tried saying something along the lines of me being too dumb to pass one of them because they were really hard but I just said I passed both and didn't bother lookling over my answers and just napped the extra time we had.
She teared up and started crying before running off.
I learned later from one of her friends that she didn't have any feelings for me, friendship or otherwise, but was using me as a way to look superior and made fun of me all the time because she assumed I was dumb and ostricised because I was alone all the time when in reality I just don't like being around people.
They haven't wrongfully assumed. They were right.
I'm baffled that the girl in story fifteen had never heard the phrase, "Has it been."
This video is only 18 minutes, but it took me about 45 to watch it because I kept rewinding😂
Feel like this happens every time I have a conversation with some one who is very passionate about a very specific topic and get annoyed when you don’t understand something and look at you like ,how could you not know that, idk maybe because I don’t spend all day thinking about something that has no relevance to my life or interest happens a lot more than you’d think.
I dare you to ask them about things you're passionate about, you might learn something :p
I have had a similar problem as our non-native German speaker, but in French. I don't know much French any more, but when I do use a little of it, my pronunciation is superb. This has led directly to someone thinking I was a Francophone and launching into a long bit of high speed French that I do not understand at all. Then I have to explain to them that I do not, in fact, speak French, and they are always so disappointed! Awkward!
Technically a rainbow would be a circle but we only see it as an arch because the way light normally works we only see the top half... So I can sort of see where the person was coming from when they didn't know it was a circle but more than 2 seconds of real thought about it should help you realize that it is in fact a circle...
More of a cone but also depends on perspective.
Most people assume I am stupid due to a speech disability. I have a lot of issues communicating the thoughts in my head and often can not properly pronounce the words I want. Imagine knowing something, wanting to express that thought and being completely unable to do so. This usually leads people to just assume I am mentally retarded. At least until I say or do something down right brilliant. At that point they usually start to realize that I am actually extremely smart. You can always see the surprise when it finally clicks in their heads.
I've been a University professor for over 30 years (retiring next month!). Several male students have considered me, among other female teachers, rather dumb, and have tried to pass my subject by "impressing" me with the way they write the essays they have to hand in during the course. Those guys always try to use far-fetched vocabulary and complicated grammar, to give the impression that their ideas are highly intellectual and rather obscure, so not everybody can understand them. What they actually do is write very sketchy ideas and show that they haven't understood the bibliography they should base themselves on. That makes it necessary for me to write endless comments explaining each mistake, but I do it because that's the only way to stop them. They've always failed until they decided to actually study and write something reasonable, not because I didn't want to give them a pass but because their essays were always rubbish.
I went on a Language study trip for two weeks in Japan in 2019, when I was 26 years old. For Japanese, obviously, which I have been studying since mid 2015. I will be the first to admit, I am not the best at languages, but I try. I only got 25% on the placement test, but during the spoken interview, a truck went past the front of the building, drowning out the second question, and when I asked, in Japanese, for the teacher to repeat the question please, the teacher marking the written tests jumped in, and just assumed I was to stupid to understand. I was put in the lowest level class, which was correct, as I hadn't started the book the next level was on, but that teacher, the only male teacher at the school, seemed to have it out for me. All the other teachers worked out within an hour that they just needed to repeat the question a couple times, and give me a minute. And I would answer, a bit broken, but still correct. This teacher would snap at me, would reword the question (which you don't do unless the person says they don't understand - repeat when asked, because it's the person trying to confirm they heard each part of the question correctly, and process what answer to give, not actually them not understanding). Well, this lasted until the Friday, the test and interciew was Tuesday. We did potential form. For the first question, it was 'can you cook', which I can't, at all, and so I used a measure of ability, to say I have 0% ability to cook. He looked a bit stunned, confirmed I meant it, and then asked me not to use measures of ability, as the rest of the class hadn't learnt that yet. Fine. I can do that. Next question, clearly wanting negative answers was 'can you speak French'. Fun fact, I did french in school from 2005 to 2007. And I could still say a few things. So I answer yes. He looks even more stunned, asks me to demonstrate, and so I introduce myself, give my age, that I have 2 older brothers, and for salt, say I can speak english, french and japanese. He asks if I can say anything else, and I tell the truth, I can count to 10, and can recite the obsure poem I had to memorise for my year 9 french oral test from 2007. The teacher's brain was visibly ticking over, before he simply told me that I would be just above the 0% I had used before, and turned away. Didn't say much to me the rest of the class.
That weekend waa the overnight trip, as part of the study trip. He actually started speaking to me, and giving me the chance to answer. In his words, I was one of the more interesting people on that trip, why, on the Tuesday, ahen we were introducing ourselves, did I omit half of it? Because he assumed I was stupid. His parting words to me at the end of the 2 weeks was 'Next time, introduce yourself properly', mine was 'next time, repeat the question.
He missed out on teaching my classmates how to say you are dual nationality becauae of me. They don't often get students that have more than one citizenship. Which is even more ironic, because the question he cut in on, and wouldn't let me answer, because I had asked for it to be repeated, was literally asking WHAT MY COUNTRY WAS, not where I came from, but literally my citizenship, meaning it would have come up.
I almost had more fun trolling him into thinking I was wxactly the idiot he thought I was though. He worked it out. Only took a week, but it was a funny week of him assuming I was too stupid to gave been accepted on the trip in the first place. And realising how wrong it was. He did also, eventually, as what I had said in French. The look he gave at the last sentence had me giggling. Now, I get to say I know enough French to rub salt in the wounded pride of Japanese teachers in Kyoto 😂😂
I actually am dumb so it's not possible for someone to wrongfully assume that I am dumb.
While working a music festival, I wore a sweater with my Uni’s very recognizable letter / color combo embroidered on the front. A patron approaches me and coworker to pick up a few knickknacks from our station and the patron says, “oh [university name], are you a fan”?
My coworker who knows I’m in my second year at the uni was about to respond, but I interrupt, “actually I just applied, I’m really hoping I get in”.
The patron says, “yea, it’s pretty tough to get in. What are your grades like”?
And I say, “they weren’t great when I started 10 years ago, but recently I’ve been killing-“. This time the patron interrupts me with, “yikes, yea it’s most likely not gonna happen. Maybe try a state school or vocational. That might be WAY better for you”.
^ (whatever the f that means)
After a few more condescending remarks my coworker had enough and says, “he’s been going to [university’s name] for 2 years and is getting his masters”.
The patron was speechless and without saying anything else just walks away.
Lol 😂🎉
No.
They were quite accurate in their initial assessment.
I’ve had a lot of people assume I was dumb but they were never wrong 🧍♂️
When I was 22 and I have a baby face I got passed over for help all the time working in paint and the customers didn’t know I was literally called the paint guru by all the associates and by many customers that were regulars
The guy in the room key story "he says he sorry", maybe he should go and say that to the guy he berated and threw his room key at due to his own stupidity.
7:30 The story about the hotel and the wrong floor. In a situation like that I would be happy to tell the guest they wouldn't be welcome at the hotel for their future travels and their company paying for their trip would be informed why exactly.
About 15 years ago, I was at my older sister's (Older Sis) house with her husband (Idiot) his brother (Good Guy Greg) and his brother's girlfriend (Unkindness). I drove trucks at the time and generally kept a low profile when in public. While at my sister's house, Good Guy Greg and his girlfriend were there and we were all going to do an activity (Trivial Pursuit). Note there were only five of us as I was not dating anyone at the time. When deciding the teams, Unkindness was asked if she wanted me on her team to which she replied "he's dumb." They decided to have a girls vs guys with one spare. Most of our questions were related to American football, which happens to be a subject I am somewhat of an expert on. We trounced them. It wasn't even close.
Story 18 is so savage oml
I need a friend like that
Naa, when people assume I'm dumb it's because it's true.
I used to work at a gas(petrol for all you non Americans) station for 2 years. We had this clearance sale on easter candy after Easter(this was not a chain wide sale, which meant I had to enter this manually instead of scanning the item). The sign said "but one get one for a dollar" so I scan the candy because it's habitual, I never really look at what I'm scanning. The customer says "hey these were buy one get one for a dollar" I said "oops. I'll fix that" I deleted one candy and added a taxable 1 dollar item. She said "these are supposed to be a dollar" I was like "yeah. I fixed it" "No you didn't. One is a dollar and one is (insert price)" "yeah buy one at retail price, get one for a dollar" "NO THEY ARE BOTH SUPPOSED TO BE 1 DOLLAR TOTAL" she thought it was 1$ not each but for both of them. I never convinced her but she left in a huff. The people behind her mocked her. She called me illiterate. Funny thing was she had a soda and at the time we had a sale on king size reeses 1 dollar with a soda(she had gotten the small mini easter egg reeses) Had she been nice and dumb instead of mean and dumb I would have informed her. She would have got more candy for less.
My ex in laws tough i was dumb because i corrected them on what Mise en place was they were saying that it was term used by chefs to close the restaurant. I corrected them saying that it was a term used to set up the kitchen before the cooking starts. I studied culinary arts for 3 years before studying Business. Their faces fell off when they googled Mise en place
My uncle called me dumb
The rubber ring between the toilet and its tank at my house broke.
My uncle and I went to get a new one.
There are 2 options, a thin one and a thick one.
I point at the thin one and say "This one looks like the one you took off the tank."
He buys the other one. We go back, he sets it up, the tank wobbles loudly. I say "I told you it was the other one." He yells back "YOU STFU! YOU MAY KNOW A LOT ABOUT SEWING, BUT YOU KNOW JACK SHIT ABOUT PLUMBING!"
About an hour or so later of him trying to get the tank from wobbling.... he went back and bought the other rubber ring all whilst avoiding me out of embarrassment
I'll forgive the teacher, since he admitted he was wrong about why winter happens. XD
I'm 72 years old and a lot of people treat me like I'm senile. I can do a New York Times crossword puzzle in 20 minutes.
There are actually quite a few people that think I am a foreigner even in my own hometown. There was even one guy that thought I didn't even speak English despite being my native language and made no effort to have a conversation with me. O_o
Smart workers have to work harder than dumb one.
So now I am a average worker!
Someone in my youth group thought I was dumb because I was always quiet and on my phone, I was a professional I my field so someone referred them to me for a setup they wanted to make and then comes in the shock
As an ex-reddit user people assumed I'm dumb all the time. Generally it would be when I'd share a fact that didn't align with their opinions. Good thing I'm not scared to bring receipts.
My son is 6yo and obsessed with the titanic too
I had the discussion about strawberries not being berries. In my language the botanical word is something akin to 'nut-fruit'.
In hindsight I know it was a smart-ass remark and I wasn't fully able to explain it and kinda misunderstood what I heard as strawberries being nuts... so I can see how outlandish my claim must have sounded to my peers at the time.
Always, if I'm wrong then I'm wrong but I work in health care as a CNA. Nurses don't like it when they are wrong. So some will try and throw you under the bus for anything they can when you prove them wrong or can perform a skill better than they can. I've been an aide for 11 years and been to nursing school a couple of times. While I may not have completed due to circumstances, I retained some info, and I was a badass when it comes to clinical practices...
People used to often treat me like a dumb young teen even though I was already 20+. All because I'm mildly on the spectrum and look quite a bit younger than I am. Got annoying and old really fast.
People think I'm smart
4:40....what?? 8th grade? I learned this shit in Kindergarten..
Basically my entire life on Twitter.
My sons now godmother thought I was a screw off in school. I was the start of the homework coping. I had close to 4.0 all high school. She did not look dumb though. Just a funny moment
Obligatory military recruitment. They made me take an iq test while 2 days into sleep deprivation. Aced the sound and eyesight tests though, got above humanly possible results. For reference when I took iq tests when not sleep deprived I got between 125 and 140 depending on the test, so it's definetly not a thing.
I remember in college my science lesson the tutor looking so smug after writing DNA on the board and asking if anyone knows what it meant I was the only person who had their hand up still looking smug he points at me and I give him the correct answer deoxyribonucleic acid he had a grumpy look on his face and just turned around and continued without acknowledging my answer but writing it out on the board had it in for me since then like not letting me in class after I was slightly late due to traffic like less than a minute he just said that I wasn't in class before the door was closed so he is not disturbing the class for me yeah he was just a jerks to me in every way possible or at least it felt like it.
It's a good thing I don't argue with people on subject unless I know or prove me wrong, why I say prove me wrong, will its cause alot of people can say alot of stuff about one thing but I'm dumb as a rock or as some say aint the sharpest one in the shed
My entire family. I am the black sheep who has a completely different way of thinking. Or two... Split personality.
Story 5 must have felt so good for OP
If the seasons come Because of the distance to earth, then there shouldnt be on northhalf winter and on the southhalf summer, this is indeed only possible Because of the tilt, causing the northhalf to be facing away from the sun and the southhalf facing towards the sun.
So, I'm one of those assholes that "talks smart" as my coworker put it, I use big words and know what they mean when I say them, so I always know I'm using the word properly. It was something I started doing in middle school when I was pushed and pushed to read and write. Now I just speak the way I'm used to. Some kids (1 is 3 years younger than me the other is 7 years younger than me) decided that since I talk smart and give off "city girl" vibes I must be an idiot. Our job is literally to clean, and I've been there longer than them so I know what I'm doing and how we should be doing everything. A different kids (also 15) asked me why I seem to know a little bit about everything, and I explained that growing up I really didn't do much other than play video games, watch tv, and try to be learn as much as I can about everything and even admitted that in a college program I earned the nickname Wikipedia because I always knew some about something. One of the other guys over heard and told me to tell him something about cars, he wasn't specific so I told him the plot of and fun fact about the movie Cars (I fucking LOVE those movies), and he made fun of me for talking about a kids movie. Jokes on him, I know that he's going into an oversaturated field and may struggle to find a job after graduating from college. He also doesn't seem to understand that just because I CAN fix something myself (he thinks 1. I should dump my '96 station wagon for a truck, 2. I should fix everything on my car myself. I don't have the shit or ability to replace the exhaust line on my car, but I can fix my own alternator and fixed my own taillight wiring myself (I did call my dad for the taillight since he grew up working on cars and I need second opinions sometimes, I just had to replace the socket).
I'm smart, I'm just unmotivated and don't give enough shits to seem smart past what has stuck around since I was a kid. Luckily none of them have questioned Star Wars stuff because that would be a lot of explain to them.
Yes, everyone else on reddit. Everyone on reddit would say the same about themselves.
ACKSHUALLY there is a place in the world where the sun sets in the south. if you're standing on the north pole, all directions are south
Thank you so much for your video 😊.
Thanks for watching!
No but they have correctly called me dumb.
Ouch. 😬
I had a women evaluate me as I have Aspergers syndrome and she treatedand talked to me like I was a 5 year old I have an IQ of 142 so 3 point shy of genius so I decided to ask what she knows about Nuclear physics and made sure to talk down to her and she quickly did a 180 still treated my like I am "disabled" Aspergers is technically a disability but it doesn't mean I am simple minded or dumb I just have bad social skills.
No, but they hey have rightfully assumed so
My favorite story is 18, that was crazy lol