What to do if people call you gullible?

[Private101]

How can I navigate the hurtful situation where my family and others label me as ‘gullible’ despite graduating with honors and treating everyone kindly? Is being be a good person a mistake.

I confronted a friend saying being called gullible is rude, and she claimed that those people who says rude things in front to you are your real friends. I am thinking this is a manipulation to tolerate disrespect from others.

What should I do in my situation?

[BoopBoopBeep]

Being kind to people has nothing to do with being gullible or not, that makes no sense. Either way I'd hardly call it a "hurtful situation." If everybody is saying it, they're saying it for a reason, so ask them to give you examples of when that was. Then you'll see where they are coming from and can agree or not.

That you graduated with honors means shite here beyond humble bragging. You think people who graduated with honors are immune to gullibility or something? There's too many people with worthless degrees and high GPAs for that to be the case.

[HappyWoman34]

It seems like you’re really putting a ticket on yourself in terms of your worth, as compared to other people’s. Well, they’re not saying it to be mean. People call me gullible too and they’re right. Intelligence has nothing to do with being streetwise. They’re saying you’re not streetwise, experienced at dealing with others and can be easily manoeuvred. You either are or aren’t streetwise (you like me are more emotionally innocent, which makes us vulnerable to exploitation). Just like you either are or aren’t intelligent. They’re trying to help, hinting that you should learn more about the world and other people. Being upset about it isn’t going to make it any less true. I do know it gets annoying when people try to help when you’re a young adult, though.

[bededazzle]

no offense, but perhaps you actually are being gullible by internalizing what someone else projects onto you? if you get this feedback a lot or think there is s grain of truth to it fine you can work on it. otherwise, ignore

[Lliam]

What examples do they give to justify their allegations?

[Luckycharms12]

You can be smart in books but not in other areas. Maybe you are to nice and trusting that's why they call you gullible

[LazerBean]

Don't be gullible

[Anonymous]

Prove them wrong.