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It's not either / or - belief in being brilliant/feeling of social inadequacy. It's classic grandiosity. They go together hand in glove. Pretty much all adolescents have it to some extent - for some people it's more extreme, and that make them more vulnerable to an ideological leader who will show them The Way.

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