When your peers and professors tell you how “impressive” you are, thank them kindly.

You will inevitably encounter your first white person to tell you how impressive and eloquent you are. Now this can be a tricky one. Chances are, you are probably are those things. It's also possible, however, that you are operating like a regular college student. The difference is, even a normal level of activity could be shocking from you because everyone intuitively understands that the institution was not designed for you. As one white woman put it to me, it surprises everyone when you're so "well-integrated."

Commentary on your brilliance is potentially coded language for "I didn't expect you to possess even remotely remarkable capacity for reason and substantial speech." Nonetheless, the only acceptable response from you in this situation, like in every other situation, is to smile kindly and thank your respective white person.