When someone has a sense of superiority, they treat people as simultaneously competent and incompetent depending on what's convenient at the time. You'll notice this in many ways.
Women are perceived as maturing faster in order to expect more of them or downplay abuse against them. But no one suggests trusting young girls' intuition more because of it.
Black children are perceived as grown when it's an excuse to kill them for being scary or sentence them as adults for crimes. But no one suggests that those adultified black children be allowed to vote.
Disabled people are seen as incompetent enough to be bullied but also competent enough to deny them support.
Authoritarian parents use their children's perceived incompetence as justification for the authority, but also see them as competent when expecting good grades, expecting an unfair share of household duties, or expecting them to parent their younger siblings.
Legal age restrictions often treat someone as underage when they want to decide what to put in their own bodies but adults when sentencing them for crimes, when making them fight wars, or when defending old perverts who want to have sex with them.
This is a very accurate way to determine whether someone has a sense of superiority over you. If they treat you consistently when deciding how competent you are, even if they sometimes decide inaccurately, then they see you as human and are likely doing the best they can. But if they flip-flop whether they see you as competent, then they have a sense of superiority and see you as beneath them.
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