I have a lifetime’s experience of being presumed to be some sort of intimidating threat and treated accordingly. During a heart to heart I had with my mother the other week, she recalled how frequently both my peers and whole-ass adults would find me being my intelligent, eloquent, and analytical self so intimidating, adults pulled her aside and said snide things like “I hope he does his homework as well as he can make sense of politics!”
As for the other kids, they bullied me.