Smart kid label

I remember genuinely being annoyed in elementary, middle, high school because I was labelled as a smart kid. And it wasn't even nerd type of hate, it just felt annoying because for one, I was like, I'm not even smart?

1. Like for one, just because I'm in advanced classes doesn't mean they're not hard, I'm struggling, don't understand stuff, and am doing well in them? If anything it means I'm stubborn and challenge myself, which yes, those things are true.

   1. Always had average grades. Or bad lowkey. Like I've done bad on so many tests and exams. I'm not your perfect A; 4.0 GPA student.

2. I think as a kid I also just felt annoyed because I was like, really, that's all I am, nothing else? Cause I felt like I was so much more. I think I just wanted to be popular (boy I've changed lol). But kids are different; and who were as kids were really different people. Like in many ways, I'm unrecognizable. At least in deeper inner thoughts; maybe not too much in character and actions and how what kind of person I overall appeared over all these years to people.

3. So yeah I think it's two things. Wanting to be more, and not just put in a box, and then being annoyed at people's ignorance of and logic of like, "how do you even know this is true?" If anything, I was never smart. Just stubborn as hell.