You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
The meaning to be thought to be something one is not (esp. in racial sense) is from 1935, from pass oneself off (as), first found 1809. The general verb sense of to be accepted as equivalent is from 1596. Sense of to go through an examination successfully.