Is it normal that no one believes me when i tell them i'm smart?

I am really, really struggling here to think of a single situation where diectly telling people that you are smart isn't socially...frowned upon.

If you're smart, you're smart. Learn some social skills & just humbly show people instead of announcing it.

You aren't smart in term of socializing, that is for sure.

You are average. We are all average it's best to prove that you are intelligent by your actions rather than to tell people you are. If they want to presume that you are dumb it's their ultimate loss.

Dude, don't be dumb. Intelligence is most highly valued by people who are the most intelligent. These people look for subtle ways in which others demonstrate their intelligence in realtime.

I belong to the Mensa society, and squeaked by the admission requirements by scoring 98th percentile with a standardized score of 132. You should practice doing puzzles to raise your score. After you join Mensa, you will meet people swimming in the self perceived grandeur of their own well argued perceptions of the world. Since you will now be on the bottom of the heap (like I am), you can work on quick witted diplomacy, clever validation, and insightful awareness of issues at hand. These same skills cause the best non-Mensa people to be socially successful with their peers. Indeed, an interesting world lays in the hands of those people most interested in the world.

Dude, take the admission test. We would like to have you on-board.

IQ scores and grades signify nothing more than how well you do when taking IQ tests and when dealing with specific topics at a certain academic level. (And do you seriously believe your primary school grades are indicative of anything? 🙄)

Truly intelligent people have a good grasp of how much they don't know, can recognise when they're wrong, and change their opinions. If you're actually bright, you'll accept that proclaiming your intelligence never results in people accepting and admiring your intellectual acuity, not even if you're the President of the USA and you announce that you're a stable genius and like, really smart.

If you're that fricking smart, you'll stop telling people (including complete strangers) that you are, stop worrying about how other people see you and go achieve something truly astonishing.

Smart people don’t have to say they are smart. People don’t care how smart you think you are. They only care what you can do for them and how you treat them. All your showing them is that your a narcissist asshole and probably stupid.

Maybe people don't care to listen to you brag? I don't really care for people who are constantly bragging about themselves, it's just annoying.

There is no need to tell people that you are smart. Regardless if you are or not

Don't tell people you're smart.

Let them figure it out for themselves, that's the only time they will believe it.

You must give off the impression that you're not the typical smart person. I mess around with my friends and do dumb shit all the time but I still graduated with a 4.0 in high school and am in the highest level english and math class I can take, but I don't look or portray myself as someone who is necessarily smart. It doesn't really bother me though because then people don't ask to copy off my homework haha.

Also, I don't really think intelligence is based off of grades even though I put it in. Most of the stuff you learn in school is useless, so it's okay not to excel in them. One of the only things school before college/entering the workforce is good for is learning how to learn: memorization, presentations, group collaborations, etc. I will never measure someone's intelligence off of their grades.

People who feel the need to tell everyone how smart they are rarely are, so people probably assume you are one of those people. Also, bragging about your IQ shows a lack in social intelligence. Why do you think it’s so important to you that people know you are clever?
Edit : also, to me straight Bs isn’t very impressive, it’s pretty average

Do I smell troll or what?🤣

1. According to your description, you aren't smart. You are average.

Is getting straight B in primary school really something to be proud of? I mean, do you actually find straight B's impressive? It's actually pretty average...

I got almost straight-full-marks back in primary school, and I was in one of the best primary schools in my country. And I don't actually brag about this, because primary school grades barely mean anything at all...

2. You aren't smart socially. That's 100% sure.

Umm...do you just randomly encounter people and say "Hello I'm smart"?? Why in the world are you telling STRANGERS that you are smart anyways???

It's not that people assume you're dumb. THEY AREN'T. It's just that your lack of social skills had shocked them.

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AND -- why do you need to prove that you're smart anyways?

I'm only going to say this on internet, because I'm pretty much anonymous here -- I also think that I'm smart. I guess it's because people had told me that I am since a young age.

But in real life I never say that. Even when people tell me "you're so smart", I usually say something along the lines of "Well I just worked hard" or "You're also bright"...

If you are an asshole then I would believe it. People don't think assholes are smart

Braggng seldom goes over well.

If you want people to believe you are smart, the way is to teach them things they want to learn. When you do (and this is the important part) explain it in such a way that they can easily understand. Not big words or over-complicated details.

People will then feel smart themselves because they have learned something new. Plus they will think of you as smart. Everyone wins.

Whenever u say that about urself they think ur full of urself and tend to think negatively
Well dumb people do that or small minded people
Also scores say nothing bout ur intelligence, they’re stupid

People are always going to judge you. If you know you're smart, don't seek the approval of others. Keep developing your intelligence, let them have their cheap thrill. You'll be the one who's laughing later.

Like I said, I don't believe in IQ.

Show don't tell. I don't walk up to people like "Hi! I can deadlift 655 and bench 385!" Nobody care and it comes off as awkward and needy which is a negative thing.