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Did anyone ever call you stupid?

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Posted - October 18, 2016
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  • 6988
    Yeah, as a child, my father always yelled at me; "You are so damn dumb!"  At that time I knew I was smarter than he, and after I became an adult, I proved it. 
      October 18, 2016 12:48 PM MDT
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  • 44623
    I don't remember anyone ever calling me stupid. I think it was because they knew I wasn't.
      October 18, 2016 12:51 PM MDT
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  • 2758
    People generally don't call others stupid because they are.  They do it to hurt the ones who aren't.
      October 18, 2016 3:00 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Probably more than once.
      October 18, 2016 12:51 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Oh. That has happened, also here at aM. If not directly then in other words.
      October 18, 2016 12:54 PM MDT
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  • 3934
    The person(s) who did so is likely suffering from Dunning=Kruger disease...;-D...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
      October 18, 2016 12:58 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    I'm not sure what they were suffering. One thing I know for sure is, that if arguments are running out it's pretty easy to take cheap shots at my English skills and talk about them as I'm an illiterate. It has happened more than once. One of the privileges we meet as participants in discussions as non-native English speaking. Luckily only once here at aM.

    Thank you.
      October 18, 2016 1:07 PM MDT
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  • 44623
    Who are they? I shall smite them.
      October 18, 2016 4:04 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Doesn't really make it go, does it? It happened. It can't be taken back. It will always be there. Whatever motives they might have had, whatever justification they could convince themselves about. One person doesn't define who we are. That's what I have in mind. Thank you. :-)
      October 18, 2016 4:12 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Thank you WW. You're so sweet. Nevertheless... 
      October 18, 2016 4:30 PM MDT
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  • 3934
    Sure, especially that guy who looks back at me from the mirror...;-D...

      October 18, 2016 12:55 PM MDT
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  • 44623
    Yeah...I have done that more than a few times.
      October 18, 2016 4:05 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    I can't recall a specific instance, but I'm sure that someone has. 
      October 18, 2016 1:12 PM MDT
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  • 2758
    By the time Ms. Powell (my fourth grade teacher) said it, I had lost count. :-)

    I have two degrees, a trade school diploma and all kinds of ancillary training...but in the fourth grade I was dubbed an a$$tard extraordinaire. :-)
      October 18, 2016 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 477
    Sure, especially behind my back, I'm sure. But mostly it's not me that's stupid, it's my stupid behavior. I get that a lot. "Don't be stupid!" "Don't do something stupid!" "You're smart, but that was a stupid thing to do!" Etc. 
      October 18, 2016 1:49 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    And lived to tell?
      October 18, 2016 1:58 PM MDT
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  • 11015
    Yes, but I assume they didn't really mean it.
      October 19, 2016 5:27 AM MDT
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