@HJSDGCE
Even if I’m not in the same situation, I can relate a bit.
Constantly I portray and think as myself as a
“stupid” person, even if no one completely conscious about its actions had ever told me such thing, or furthermore people in my school usually says the opposite, though when someone attempts to compliment me, for some reason I have to devalue it and I will always find a reason to justify the opposite, with fundaments such as “the fact that I know maybe many things doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m smart”; though the idea of intelligence became an obsession, and an unhealthy one I have to say, to the instance that there was a time in which I simply didn’t want to know anything about it anymore. I been always having the fear of being less, to feel that I’m just someone uncapable of things, that acts in a way that isn’t proper for the situation, or that I have a deficient understanding about what surrounds me; that’s what I’m scared of, but those ideas only limited myself.
I reached a point in which I prefer to not know whether if ’I’m smart’ or not, at least, in what it regards to IQ tests, in which I don’t agree that much; the results can variate a lot depending of how the person is feeling in that moment and they are limited in the possibility to analyze and ’materialize’ something as abstract as the mechanism of our minds, which even today we don’t fully understand how it works.
If I am, maybe it would make me happy but I’ll end probably starting to be arrogant or taking things without the same care, and therefore I’ll behave worse. If I’m not that would make my self-esteem to drop and again all I’ll do would be limiting myself, so that’s why I prefer to live in that way in the uncertainty, so I wouldn’t let my emotions to handle me such as in the both extremes.