There are hundreds of QTs from Nazis talking about how they were the smartest kids ever but the damn (((education system))) hampered them, and anyone who doesn't believe that they're hyper geniuses is simply a seething lib.
You're supposed to get over the "I was a gifted kid" stuff by the time you're 20.
Oh yeah, you hit the nail on the head here.
I like to think of myself as a smart guy, and my cousin is practically a genius. We grew up in a similar situations: a suburb in the rural ass boonies. The k-12 schooling was terrible, and almost had a "we're incompetent and proud of it" mentality. Superintendent made assloads and our rural school was falling apart. At least some of the teachers were real gems, and I loved to chat with my teachers about this cool thing I learned or I think X connects to Y. As for my cousin, she still regularly visits teachers she likes and as a smart person, she keeps an open mind. She NEVER brags about how she knows everything, and then scoffs at anything that contradicts her worldview as wrong, because she knows everything.
All in all, it made me feel written off because I wasn't lucky enough to be born in a nice part of a major city. If my cousin and I are intelligent, then both of us are being written off for being "rednecks". Same goes for kids in redlined parts of major cities, some of them can be really intelligent but are being suppressed because of racist school funding policies, which ironically, hurt a lot of white people that it intends to "help".
Oof, as someone who grew up poor, I feel you. People will tell you to stay in your lane and it hurts not having the same support and opportunities afforded to people from wealthy backgrounds/areas. Fuck classism, fuck it hard.