Tessa Schlesinger
1 min readAug 1, 2024

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I've never met people who are highly intelligent who put others down. My late father and brother had IQs of 185. Neither had any interest in putting others down. My late father was too interested in his many interests and never noticed anyone else (probably Asperger's like myself), and my late brother too interested in sport.

For myself, yes. After a lifetime of being told I'm stupid and called every other name under the sun, I now let people know, as I'm fed up that because I arrive at different conclusions or because I don't fit in or because I offended someone, I must be stupid.

My late mother spent her life calling me stupid. In my mid-50s, I turned. Anyone want to call me stupid or insinuate I don't know how to reason, I will probably put them down.

That is very bad of me. I acknowledge that. I'm just done with being put down by others.

That said, I find people in the 160 range and up seldom, if ever, put others down.

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