How smart people hide their intelligence and how to spot them...

I hide my intelligence for the same reason a poker player hides his hand. If someone needs to know how truly smart I am, it usually means that they should expect a shredded psyche and/or some sort of completely unforeseen (to them, at least) wrench thrown into the bicycle wheels propelling their life towards their goals.

Let me say, it takes A LOT to make me care enough to put forth the effort of really using my intelligence. And I would never, ever do this to someone who didn’t deserve it.

Example: my ex stole my identity, turned out to have been cheating on me and committing numerous federal crimes while we were together. I learned of this while she was gone on vacation, calmly documented everything I found, backed up her computer onto a hard drive and took any and all incriminating evidence to a secret location. I then kicked her out. BUT, I still haven’t pressed charges or alerted the authorities. Even though I’m angry enough to do so.

I’m biding my time; waiting it out. I’ll steadily test how shitty of a person she is and I’ll see how poorly she continues to treat me. I’ll be contrite and humble. Let her think she has the upper hand. And ONLY if she continues to be the soulless human being that she has been (made up a suicide attempt and blamed me for it, etc…), then I’ll blindside the fuck out of her without doing much more than making a few phone calls and anonymously turning over a box of documents to a certain corporate headquarters.

I don’t want to do that, because I’ll have to deal with a lot of bullshit after I do. Also, I won’t get any enjoyment from fucking her over. But I’m calculated, cunning and patient enough to do it. It would really be more of an act of perceived justice, I suppose. I happen to currently be pressing back against the hammer, still protecting her. If she openly proves to me that she could and would hurt others by the way she treats me, then I’ll simply take a step to my right and let the hammer fall.

That’s one reason I hide my intelligence.

The other is that I’m just so tired of being called a “nerd.”

EDIT:

If you’re wondering how to spot the super intelligent people in the room, they’re the ones who aren’t mimicking the perceived “alpha’s” body language or they appear disgusted/bored by the fact that such a social construct as an “alpha” even exists.

Also, we have a slew of preprogrammed responses, which are vague enough to apply to almost any situation, and just puzzling enough to give us time to slip away.

“Well, you do what you can.” “That’s life, right?” “What can a person say?”

“Isn’t that the bitch of living, man…” “If only things had played out a little differently…” “A guy can only do so much.”

That kind of shit.