NO OP. UNACCEPTABLE. You do NOT, in ANY circumstance, by ANY person, EVER deserve to be publicly, or privately humiliated. Not acceptable. Do not ever allow yourself to be emotionally abused like that - and yes, it is a form of abuse, its a way to dominate and squander someone's confidence in themselves and as an individual. I dunno what all is going on in her psychological department, and as I'm not defending her, there could be a few reasons she did this: She herself, does not feel intelligent, and your intelligence intimidates her, thus causing the feeling of 'needing' to one-up you in the brains area. 2) As a child, she could have often been made to feel unintelligible by her peers, siblings that are older (if she has any), and even teachers whom have based intelligence solely on grades of standardized tests (a VERY inaccurate way of measuring anyone's full intelligence potential)...I.E. Cruel and unneeded bullying. This could have brought on the feeling of "I'm always going to fail anyway, why should I even bother trying to learn? No one will recognize that I HAVE learned new things, nor acknowledge my true intelligence and capabilities, so there is no point." and "Everyone already thinks I'm dumb [[inner voice: I AM dumb, or people wouldn't tell me I am]]" This can also bring on a severe lack of self-confidence in being able to perform academics in any function, except the ones she KNEW she could perform, because of good marks on papers/tests, thus stunting her desire/drive to excel in what she "knows" [thinks due to others and her own inner voice] she "cannot" achieve. 3) Her parents possibly, and this will sound off, praised her far too much, with gregarious, over-the-top phrases such as: "Oh, you are SO good/The BEST at doing addition [or other mathematical equations/Science/history/sports etc. that made her not want to try anything new for fear of failing in that, and missing out on the praise, and falling deeper into beliefs of being "not good enough" "dumb" or "unable to learn/do this new skill". I say this about over-praising because sometimes, sadly, that is some of the very little, confidence-boosting, positive-reinforcement some kids/young adults get that makes us believe we are smart...but only with those things, and that builds a not-so-good for us security blanket (much like an ACTUAL security blanket/place/toy) that we really do not want to stray away from simply because all the bullying/teasing has made us genuinely fear failure. It happened to me as a youth, and it sucked worse than a couple dozen panda ant stings. 4) She could have seen this kind of interaction happening between parents, or other role-models in intimate relationships for a large part of her growing up, and simply not know any better way of coping with a relationship on that level. We tend to mimic what parents/guardians/role-models have shown us. This is how we learn to speak our native languages, socialize, communicate (or NOT communicate), our morals, values, integrity and so on. What I'm getting at, and I'm not giving her a bail-out, it IS something has to work on, is that IF she was raised in this environment, she could have been doing these negative behaviours for so long now, that she's not even aware she's doing it anymore. Much like my nail-biting and thumb-sucking habit (behaviours I started myself due to anxiety and comfort AND being babied a lot as a child...I'm 24 now haha) have become second nature to where unless someone calls attention to it, I end up doing it without making a conscious decision to do so...such as would be the case for this kind of ill-mannered treatment to significant others, and possibly friends if she was doing this for much of her life...it has basically become an automatic response she's not entirely aware of. 5) My least-likely assumption (to me, its least-likely) is its a way to "strike" first, and establish dominance over others before one can do this to her. Almost like a psychological shield that prevents her from being hurt, or as affected as deeply as it once did in the past, should a similar situation from peers/employees/bosses/S.others/Sometimes parents or elders to this day arise. Though she's not actually in control of what the other person is going to say/do (I am guilty for a lot of negative behaviours I've done with S.others in the past due to following an example set by my elders) exhibiting these actions, which are actually attacks, that DO hurt, make her FEEL in control, which is a way to feel secure, boast a false sense of confidence, squash her insecurities and feelings of being inferior by "making" someone ELSE feel less-than, and less-intelligent than she. I used to physically beat anyone up for anything I felt 'wronged' me, or often, intimidate/terrify my peers, sometimes parents when I was having an episode of mania (I have manic-depressive disorder, as well as BPD, social-anxiety, inferiority-complex, and the good ol' schizophrenia, with rage issues) to get them to leave me the Hell alone, stay out of my way, be unable to get past my 'walls'/hurt me, for anything they did - subconsciously or not - that even started to make me feel uneasy or uncomfortable in my own flesh....This marriage I'm in now, coming up on two years, is the first where I haven't had almost-constant arguing, tenseness in the same room, ME actually being a verbally aggressive girlfriend, as well as being verbally abused, and general chaos...I have now discovered that I DO have good communication skills, and am able to talk it out, rather than resorting to very hurtful fighting...So, if you're still with her, have hope, OP, and everyone else in these situations, she/he has the capability to work on that if she/he tries, and actually applies him/herself. PM me, any of you, if you ever need some advice ( I will offer what I can with the knowledge I have ) a listening ear that will not spread anything about to anyone, or just to chat. I'd love to be there for ya!

You might want to dump the dummy.

Why am I strongly reminded of AmazingPhil from youtube?

Just show her a picture of one.

Or did you really file like an idiot because your dating her

Your girlfriend is an idiot.

Tell her about sea dragons as well haha

Tell her about sea dragons as well haha