Are you modest?

[BabyPiglet]

I never thought I was. It's not like I loved bragging, but I wasn't going to stop someone from complimenting me either.

Some of you might remember that my history presentation was today. Well one of the guys from my group stood up and said that he didn't know there were such smart people in the class until he met us.

Then he said he didn't know anything about grammar (obviously, lolol) and that all the editing credit should go to me, because I was a 'genius' at english. I mean, after all the nonsense I went over with this paper, I should feel grateful that I was getting the credit, right? Wrong. It felt wrong. I'm sure I blushed bright red. I don't know, I just feel that everyone in the group worked their hardest, and I'm not any better than them. They said it in our meetings to, I just don't get it.

& in my writing class, when they figured out I was only 17, they'll go on and on about how smart I am. They always look at me for the answers to stuff. I don't feel like I'm doing any better than them, I just feel like I'm doing average. Ya know?

I don't know. This post is going to sound like I'm totally bragging, which I'm not. It's not that I don't know that I'm smart or whatever, it's that maybe I don't want any special treatment for it? I never understood why people were modest until now, lol.

BLAH, so are you modest?

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I'll act it, but when I'm around my closest, they know how conceited I can get.

 

[imabrat]

In certain aspects of my life, yes. When someone compliments me I'll say something like "oh, stop it! you're gonna make me blush!"
I dress a little bit more modestly. I'm not, like, Duggar status however. I prefer not to wear low rise jeans, I prefer not to show too much cleavage, and I prefer not to show too much skin. By "too much skin" I mean midriff ****s, mini skirts, tiny bikinis, etc.

 

[Babyjustrun]

I'm not modest because I actually sometimes consider myself stupid. I have no common sense, I do stupid things constantly and can't do math well in my head. So when a person tells me I'm so smart and so good in school.. I have to deny it.

Or when someone calls me skinny. It's been happening so much lately, but really, I'm regular sized, I've got curves and some pudge.

I get the I'm smart the most.

 

[Cinderella94]

I skipped a grade, so I'm younger than everyone else and in honors and AP classes and all that, and I get told how smart I am all the time. I'm like, "not really!" I really don't see myself as smart. My grades are average, and the workload sucks.

 

[My Wild Love]

I try to act modest but I truthful am not.

 

[Axel]

I'm modest with everything but track. If I just had a good throw, I'm gonna let you know about it.

 

[Sparx]

i'm very modest.

i lie about grades and say i did worse than i did, if i sit next to someone who's not good in the class. when you study for 5+ hours and make a C, and i don't study at all and make a B+ or an A, i'm not going to tell you that.

i also lied about my age in my english 1010 class. it was online, and everyone always raved abotu how well i write and my grammar skills in essay writing. everyone in my class (other than me) was over 30, and the class average was a C. I made an 89. so, no, i wasn't going to tell them that i was (at the time) sixteen.

 

[~Serenity~]

Doesn't saying your Modest defeat the purpose.

 

[saratogadreamin09]

my family has a joke that i'm very vain because i'm the only girl (you might not get it)

around my friends I try to never talk about me but I guess I'll accept a complament

 

[BabyPiglet]

Doesn't saying your Modest defeat the purpose.

No.

And Shelby, I totally get where you're coming from. I don't -lie- about my age, like I'll tell them the truth if they ask, but I'm not going to just hand out that information.

& that's exactly it. When the chick who sits next to me in algebra gets a bad grade, but I know for a fact she studied a ton for it, I'm not going to try and make her feel worse. I mean, if she asks I'll tell her my grade, but I'll say it was really confusing or something (it usually is, haha, I'm surprised by the grades I'm getting.)

 

[Sparx]

No.

And Shelby, I totally get where you're coming from. I don't -lie- about my age, like I'll tell them the truth if they ask, but I'm not going to just hand out that information.

& that's exactly it. When the chick who sits next to me in algebra gets a bad grade, but I know for a fact she studied a ton for it, I'm not going to try and make her feel worse. I mean, if she asks I'll tell her my grade, but I'll say it was really confusing or something (it usually is, haha, I'm surprised by the grades I'm getting.)

i didn't lie. i just never said how old i was. and i alwasy referred to high school as in the past tense.

 

[::Snow_White::]

Not really. If I do something awesome, then I'm going to pat myself on the back for it, but I only do it around friends and I don't carry on with it. (I have a friend who is beyond conceited though so it's hard for me to tell what is modest and what is not. Lol.)
If I'm near anybody else I am very modest, but I do like the attention and praise on the inside.

But I get tired of people calling me a genius, because in all honesty, I'm not. I'm just smart, not a genius, I don't know everything, I'm just good at guessing.

 

[Shelton123]

Well I don't show that much skin, but in ever other respect I'm not modest at all. I share my beliefs and the harsh truth, and I hide my mistakes well. I don't apologize for it, either. I also hide my *****iness in the real world, but not on the net! I'm a real ***** on here, but not as much in real life. Almost as much, but not quite.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Whenever I mention to people that I was 16 when I graduated high school, they always squeal and call me a genius. NO. I am not a genius, I am average smart. I was just clever & figured out a way to get out of high school early. Simple. It was flattering at first, but now I get fairly irritated. NOT A GENIUS. Guh.

Shelton, are you a guy or girl?

 

[Shelton123]

I'm a guy

 

[Disney Dork]

Yes-I'm modest.

It's not really something I do purposely tho. I have a self-esteem the size of a peanut, so I'm always trying to push everyone else up while being extremely hard on myself at the same time.

I don't wear 'showy' clothes, but I'm not as bad of as the Duggars, I promise. If I have a shirt that goes down too low for my comfort zone to allow, I'll just put a tank underneath. And I don't like wearing skirts because I think my thighs are fat, so usually I wear jeans until I absolutely have to wear something else. When people compliment me, I do thank them, but I don't go around gloating about it. Mainly because I figure that other people may not agree with them, so there's no point.

With grades, I absolutely hate it when people call me smart-but they do it all the time. I have done so many stupid things in my life, that they seriously make Mr. Bean look like a genius. In order to get anything above a C-I have to CRAM like no other. I will sit in my room for hours reading and taking practice quizzes-all the while stressing myself out beyond insanity. I hardly call that being smart.

I'm too hard on myself sometimes tho-and know I need to stop it. I'm tearing myself apart.

But yeah, seriously, I don't want other people to be like me-so I'm ALWAYS trying to push them up. My grades will be hidden inside my binder in a matter of seconds and if the person next to me made a C, I'll be like "YEAH! YOU MADE A C! C IS FOR COOKIE!"

 

[PigletGurl]

That happened to me all the time in high school, especially in the science classes cuz i was so good at them. I LOVED the attention, but sometimes it got to a point where i just wanted to be left alone and do my OWN work. That doesnt happen at college cuz i dont know many people, but the people i do know, know im smart at science, but they dont go to me for answers cuz we dont like get homework or anyting lol

 

[Smiley.Socks]

I get told I'm modest a lot.
And yah, I think I am.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

I love recieving compliments, but I am so modest, I'll just brush them off. And if someone asks if I'm good at something, even though I know I am, I'll always say, "I'm alright at it.." I get really self-conscious if I think someone things I'm conceited..I hate that quality in people.

I can't lie though, I do brag sometimes though. It's rare, but it does happen.

I dress modestly too. I don't like really tight clothes, cleavage, etc. When I do dress up, I'll break a few rules. Like when I wear dresses, I'll show SOME cleavage, or if I'm going to a club, I'll dress sexier, but I never go crazy with that stuff. I like leaving it up to a guy's imagination to figure out what's underneath.