Do you feel superior or inferior of others? Page 2

Started by Guardian September 17th, 2014 6:54 AM
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As hard as I try not to feel inferior to others, it's the way I've felt since I was very young. I've always been chubbier than others, a little overweight. Yeah, I've been picked on, left out, laughed at for it. Even when I'm around my friends I can't help but worry I'll say or do something that sounds weird or make them not like me anymore, cause I've always had this idea that because of my weight I just had to prove myself more than others, I dunno. That probabgly came out wrong, but anyway. I'm constantly paranoid they're talking about me behind my back, thinking bad things about me even though they do act really sweet, etc. I'm constantly jealous over those people with naturally good looks, seemingly effortless acceptance, all that. It's never really been easy for me to get comfortable and open up cause I got so used to being shut down, even though a lot of the time it was my own worries that made me think that. Yeah, I feel pretty inferior no matter what the situation.

Megan

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Inferior, which is kind of a pain. Not being able to say that I'm the best for a certain job, always thinking that people just ignore me, because I don't have anything that's worth notice. Etc. etc.
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Alex

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Posted December 26th, 2022
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Hmm, it varies from person to person. I tend to read people and make up my own idea of their adequacies and inadequacies. I never voice these opinions because they are pure speculation. But with that, I tend to place myself amongst them. In the past, I would often feel inferior to someone, even my own friends. This made it very hard for me to social and let myself be myself. I would always be striving to improve myself in the eyes of the people to who I felt inferior.

These days, I try to keep a level playing field. I ignore my prejudice and use facts I know to my advantage. I treat people as equals and consider inferiority and superiority as an adjective to describe specific comparisons of oneself to another. As a whole, no human being is plain inferior or superior to anyone. We are all one species.

I understand the idea of superiority as a driver for confidence, but I personally feel it's a very, very toxic one. I've used the tactic of lying to myself to boost my own self-esteem and I think it left me with a very inflated ego and all of these cocky opinions of myself that I truly believed. The best method to boost confidence is to focus on your own strengths, not others' weaknesses.

Klippy

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I judge people by their appearance and attitude that they display. When I'm at the gym, I constantly mock or insult people in my mind because they act like total idiots or say things that are cocky.

I don't feel superior to them, but I feel better about myself by seeing the way people like that act. It's more of a..."I can't believe people actually ACT like this!" feeling.

Livewire

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Posted August 2nd, 2019
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Maybe not outright superior, but I can judge people pretty well and tell sometimes. Not superiority per say, it's confidence that if it came down to me vs them, I'd find a way to win, if it were in a competition setting.

AxeBeard McBeardAxe

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"Pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death."

I am quite a prideful person, and the superiority I feel over others because of it is most certainly a product of the seed of death. That being said, I'm not totally cold and rude, and I know when to be humble (usually), so don't think me unapproachable!