>>2232094Listen, the whole valedictorian shit makes me think you're smart, but even then you're still either overestimating yourself, or vastly underestimating the necessity of experience before your intelligence becomes even remotely useful. Basically you end up constantly rocking back and forth between saying/doing genuinely smart things but then underachieving where it actually counts. Maybe you need to forcefully put a dent in your own ego. Don't feel the need to assert yourself wherever you go. Even if you don't believe it, try to act like the people around you are smarter than you think they are. It is fucking hard as balls to entirely ditch your own ego on a daily basis, that's why they built an entire religion around it. And there are probably a bunch of other things that fucked you up like a shitty family experience (who hasn't). But getting some balance in your self-image is a really good place to start.
Source: Had similar diagnosis. Not the MLP and /pol/tard stuff tho, that's pretty gay desu. Also check'em
