I don't like to be around smart, temperamental people who don't bother to conceal either their intelligence or their reluctance to suffer fools. They make me nervous. I used to think they made me nervous because I wasn't going to measure up to their standards and so I'd have to deal with their scorn. I hate being scorned. And I still believe this explanation is partially right - I maintain that among the "regular party guests" I refer to, I'm one of the dumbest people in the room.
But I cannot dismiss that I am also describing myself in the quote.
Y'know, I think half the time when you and I have problems getting along it's because we both see ourselves that way - only we differ on who is who.
(I see myself in the "doesn't suffer fools" part of that, but as a southern woman of, well, a certain age, I can be really, really good at concealing my intelligence under certain circumstances. We were brought up to.)
Mel:
I don't like to be around smart, temperamental people who don't bother to conceal either their intelligence or their reluctance to suffer fools. They make me nervous. I used to think they made me nervous because I wasn't going to measure up to their standards and so I'd have to deal with their scorn. I hate being scorned. And I still believe this explanation is partially right - I maintain that among the "regular party guests" I refer to, I'm one of the dumbest people in the room.
But I cannot dismiss that I am also describing myself in the quote.
Y'know, I think half the time when you and I have problems getting along it's because we both see ourselves that way - only we differ on who is who.
(I see myself in the "doesn't suffer fools" part of that, but as a southern woman of, well, a certain age, I can be really, really good at concealing my intelligence under certain circumstances. We were brought up to.)
-- 05:46, 14 June 2009 (BST)