We often hear people tell us that we should never judge a book by its cover. The unfortunate thing is, we often do so because it is human nature.
Sometimes, we may judge someone so severely and we don’t even really know the truth about what is going on. That is often the case, and perhaps we have even been the victim of such judging.
In the following fictional story, we get to hear about a girl who was judged as being really stupid but in the end, they discovered something about her that no one knew.
I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like REALLY DUMB. She’d ask a ton of questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid” and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking.
The weirdest thing was that she’d almost always ace the class exams and everyone was like???? Even the teachers thought she was cheating because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating.
I’m pretty introverted so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she did so well on exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks and doubts affect her.
She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and had difficulty in class because she couldn’t bring herself to ask questions or ask for help from others. I’ve felt that way before myself.
So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her.
This girl endured taunts and accusations and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask questions for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend??
It just really changed me in some way.