People are calling out their own family members for being unintelligent!
Looking back, can you believe our parents were actually right?
IaskedtheBuzzFeed Community, “What’s a subtle sign that someone really isn’t intelligent?”
Here’s the feedback, and the responses are brutally honest:
1.
“Anyone who acts like they’re the smartest person in the room.
They need to always be right.
“When they begin a sentence with, ‘actually…'”
3.
“Someone who constantly interrupts.”
zara_black
5.
“If they dont read books.
The day you stop learning is the day you die.”
“People who mistake education for intelligence.
These two are not the same.”
Shell be told something and will completely change the story to something else.
She only hears what she wants and makes it her own.
My whole family is fact-checking her a lot.
Its wild, the stuff she comes up with at times.”
9.“Cursing.
When I hear someone constantly cursing, it tells me they have no language skills and limited vocabulary.”
“Lack of curiosity.
Truly intelligent people know there is always more to learn.”
Asking questions is how you learn and understand."
“Using purely emotionally-based arguments instead of logically-based ones.
chak777
14.“Stubbornness.
“When they feel the need to constantly tell you how smart they are.
The smartest people I know have never had to tell anyone that they are smart.”
jakkiw2
16.
Even people of average intelligence know that ‘What?’
either means the person doesn’t understand or that they can’t hear you over the background noise.
In either case, using different phrasing will help the person hear you and respond.
Being able to rapidly come up with alternate wording is a sign of intelligence.”
“When they constantly talk and think theyre the smartest person in the room.
Intelligent people listen more than they speak and are genuinely open to feedback and learning.”
Anonymous, 34
20.
“They arent funny…as in, they have ZERO wit.
“Ive had a few female friends say they ‘stay out of politics because theyre all crooks.’
Id be okay with that response in the pre-Trump era.
However, as women, we cant afford that BS.
Apparently, shes never heard ofProject 2025.
We all have bad days.
Hell, we sometimes have a shitty year.
“An adult family member once argued with me that the post office was open on Sunday.
I tried to explain to them it was not because it was a government office.
They replied, ‘Well, if Wal-Mart is open, so is everything else.’
And off they went to the local post office.
Can’t make this stuff up.”
Anonymous, 50
25.
“They equate volume and aggressiveness in conversations with being correct.”
“Cursing a lot.
Excessive cursing shows they just don’t know them.”
“People who can’t form their own thoughts.
I have a friend who takes whatever her husband tells her as fact.
She was talking about autism once and said kids at two years old can’t be diagnosed.
“Anyone who claims to have no filter when speaking.
Anonymous, 46
30.
“They think everything is about them and get involved in everyones business.
Or, they never accept anyone elses opinions because theyre the only ones who can be right.
Also hating something theyve never given a chance, e.g., music, art, religion.”
“They dont believe in science.
Dinosaurs didnt exist; climate change is a myth.
Low-intellect people fail to grasp theory and research.”
“They always have to have the last word.
If you’re confident in your position/answer, there’s no need.
Anonymous, 49
33.
Um…bless her heart.”
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length/clarity.
