How do you mean people don't? I mean, I don't get people telling me I'm smart, or stupid, or anything in-between. Do people (or did people in the past) tell you you're not smart?
My advice would be to allow yourself to <b>be</b> smart, and not feel like you have to show other people that you are smart. As abaya states, most people have a pretty accurate bs filter - if you tell someone something (that might be 100% factually correct) but tell them in order to show how smart you are, you will instead look as though you are being a know-it-all (almost exactly how I'm sounding now?!).
In fact, they may go the other way and think to themselves "That JinnKai thinks he's so smart, but you know what?..."
It doesn't matter what you say, it's the motives behind all that which count. So forget trying to tell people you're smart (they'll figure it out for themselves) just let yourself be yourself. I know, it's so much easier than it sounds - I'm still trying to get the hang of it myself.
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