Hands up if you were the smart student in your class. Come on now, you normally love raising your hand.
Despite having the lion’s share of the brains in the room, it was not an easy life was it? Nowadays Sherlock, the new Doctor Who and The Big Bang Theory have made geeks a little bit sexy and cool.
But being the brainbox was more often a curse than a blessing.
There were a number of reasons for this and no amount of your mum telling you that you will always be the coolest kid to her would make it any easier.
Here are just some of the perils faced by the school brainiacs.
1. The teasing
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