When I was younger, my entire identity was basically tied up in being more intelligent than everyone else, basically an intrinsic sense of superiority.
In case anyone was wondering or had any doubts, I can assure you that my approach was not the way to win friends and influence people. Especially when you tied that into moral anger, essentially aligned with my own special puritan-victorianish moral worldview. I suppose that I was a martinet.
Anyhow, socially, elementary school and middle school were. Socially, I probably peaked in eighth grade. Academically, performance-wise, I probably peaked in eleventh grade.
It was all downhill from there. I recovered somewhat after a bad start in high school, but college and law school were train wrecks. That had more to do with my inability to adjust to college life more than anything else.
