I used to think I was the shit until like 9th grade. I was completely mute by choice because I thought of myself as intellectually above everyone else and they didn't deserve to talk to me. Part of it was because everyone I had been in class with up to that point was completely retarded. I felt like everyone else was scum and I gave no one the time of day. I completely ignored everyone, I didn't even acknowledge their existence. I was always mentally/emotionally advanced for my age, I had a college reading level in 4th grade and I was using the internet and chatting online, making websites, and posting on message boards since 2nd grade. People constantly harassed me and I thought nothing of it because I knew I was better than them. Some guy came up to me and stabbed me with an x-acto knife. I didn't even flinch, I just sat there and smirked a little while the blood ran down my arm and went about my business. After that people thought I was incapable of feeling pain. I had so much self-control that
nothing anyone could do could scathe me.
Eventually I developed self-consciousness and my life has been screwed up ever since. I used to just do my own thing, excel in school and not care what anyone else thought. Now the only thing I can think about it what other people think.