What are intellectual bullies like?

Intellectual bullies are children or adults with a higher than average IQ.

• On average, they behave disrespectfully and meanly to those around them.
• They have a great “verbal artillery”. That is, they’re good at verbal harassment and abuse and don’t even need to resort to insults to hurt someone .
• They need to be the center of attention.
• They’re sensitive, highly reactive, easily offended.
• Finally, they have a poorly developed empathy.