/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9064039
i am highly uneducated, but when speaking with people, they ask if im a student, or if im going to college. They are generally surprised when i say that im not, and then encourage me to go to college as an umbrella statement, as if it would make my life miraculous. I find myself unable to talk about real things with people, younger and older, on a level that is beyond "look at what i saw on facebook". I dont know what my IQ is, but im certain that im not that intelligent, but rather just surrounded by people far stupider than myself. I mean, i dont try to sound "smrt" unironically, but i speak clearly and concisely, and I generally carry myself with a sense of dignity and also humbleness, because i dont ever claim to know more about anything than i really do. Sometimes ill jokingly explain something in a "professional" manner as if i had a degree in the subject, while only having an elementary knowledge of it, all the while knowing that having the ability to jokingly describe any one thing probably means that i know more about it than id claim to. But even so, in all of this, i find that despite being uneducated, i am observant, curious, intuitive, and perceptive. I feel that those characteristics are what people see in me that make me seem "smart".