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“My husband was always told in school he could do better. His parents have told him, in front of me, that he’s not very bright. They assume because he ‘works with computers all day’ that he just plays video games all the time. He got terrible grades in school and dropped out of university. He got terrible grades because he was told he’d do badly by his parents, his teachers — basically everyone in his life. When I met him, we working in the same company. I witnessed that company hold him back for five years because he was useful where he was. It was very good timing when he applied for a different job in the same company but in a different department and location. He got the job because a higher-up was on annual leave and couldn’t object. The original department had to hire eight people to replace him when he left. While he can’t do simpler math without a calculator, he can do complex quantum equations in his head.”
“His father had the audacity to say, ‘You’ve always been bad at math,’ to which my husband — who has had enough of his parents’ bullshit — replied, ‘My math might be bad, but it’s good enough to know I earn more than you combined,’ in reference to both of his parents. I’m a super proud wife.
He’s since been hired by a different company and is flourishing. He’s had several promotions and pay raises, is on good terms with everyone in the company — from the group CEO to the cleaners in his office — and is treated with respect by everyone he works with.” —u/jenjudges
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriavouloumanos/signs-of-intelligent-people-who-dont-know-theyre-smart
