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In short, I would say that the frustration of dealing with<br />

slower people is worse than being one of the slower people,<br />

even if you know you are slow. obviously most people who are<br />

relatively slow don't know it, but I think I've glimpsed how<br />

they experience the world.<br />

426<br />

http://www.quora.com/l/boq-anon-user-9<br />

attractiveness<br />

What does it feel like to be both<br />

very physically beautiful and very<br />

academically intelligent?<br />

Anon User<br />

Being intelligent and attractive is a continuous test of character.<br />

It's incredibly tempting to rely on your looks to get you<br />

places, and you have to make and adhere to a firm decision of<br />

not taking that ticket because you can. It's also really lonely.<br />

You can't really complain about it to anyone because to do<br />

so, you'd have to break the unspoken convention of never acknowledging<br />

your own beauty. even when writing this answer,<br />

I found myself wishing I could share it with friends but<br />

knowing that to do so would be socially unacceptable. When<br />

you're pretty, people mock you if you say anything negative<br />

about your looks, but they would find you stuck-up and intolerable<br />

if you actually admitted that you knew people found<br />

you attractive.<br />

how it affects your childhood<br />

If you have siblings, no matter how smart you are, you are<br />

"the pretty one." Your sister is jealous but you don't realize<br />

that's why she says things about how she's so much smarter<br />

than you are and that your parents think you're dumb in comparison.<br />

You grow up learning that looks matter a lot. My<br />

immigrant grandparent was prouder of my looks than my<br />

education, which was a startling truth to discover. All of your

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