Beautiful.
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Honestly, according to IQ tests, I'm already in the 95th+ percentile for intelligence. I'm also on the autism spectrum, and just got diagnosed with severe ADHD late last year. I've accomplished fuck-all by being smart, and it's mostly made me depressed. I'd pick being slightly dumb, but hot.
What IQ is the 95th percentile?
Beautiful. I've tried smart, it sucks.
Yeah, told the genie I want to be smart. Motherfucker turned me into a car.
Being both already I would tell said genie to take a hike.
Pwnt
Can I so intelligent as to quickly figure out how to CRISPR-Cas9 my looks or does tge wish prevent me from changing my appearance?
So... the genie offers to make me look better by increasing my looks to only slightly below average? Noice!
Ignorance is bliss.
Smarts.
The latter. I guess that's kinda what I have already and I have no complaints. I'm aro/ace anyway so I don't really need the stunning looks for dating purposes. My relatively decent ability to learn new things never ceases to entertain me
Smart because if I ever started getting into making videos for my fictional PยฒEMG company, would needs the smarts to make a v-Tuber model of my fursona work, alongside some other tools I won't disclose.
Neurotypical
Hello beautiful.
Not beautiful anyway. I'll take the smarts
I thought I blocked this shit hole instance a couple days ago. Apparently it didn't work. Time to add them again!
Why do you keep coming back, OP?
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Probably smart, because I'm already pretty smart and the prospect of giving up what I already have seems scary.
Plus, I've lived most of my life thinking I was repulsively ugly; part of overcoming that anxiety involved understanding that "you can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just don't like peaches". If there's anything I've learned from that, it's understanding that attractiveness is even harder to "objectively" quantify than intelligence
I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.
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Easily smart and slightly below average attractiveness. It's pretty trivial to boost your appearance by 2-3 "points" with some decent fashion choices, makeup, working out, and good grooming.
Worst case, I use my high intelligence to get a high paying job and use some of the money for plastic surgery.
Well how long would I have to give one of them up for?
Forever.
Where do I live? If I'm in a place where people are beautiful, slightly below average attractiveness would be perfect for the rest of the world, make me a genius.
If I live where people are so intelligent and are ugly, please make me better looking and slightly dumber than them, I can make my way through the world just fine.
I think looks are easier to fix, but learning can help fix stupid - I'm sure there are at least some stupid people with more sense than some smart people.
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