Gift of Intellect : Blessing or Curse?

There are always pros and cons of everything in life, including having intelligence.
What is actually having intelligence? Having high IQ? If that’s the case, then from my point of view, I would think that to a large extent, the gift of intellect is a curse.

I would use pieces of information from the passage to put it across that in my view, the gift of intellect is a curse. Firstly, after the operation, everyone at Donnegan's Factory marginalised him and signed a petition to strip Charlie of his job. This happened because everyone thought that Charlie was too clever, and that they did not know how Charlie became so clever. Therefore, being clever can get someone into trouble and cause him to be lonely.

Next, after the operation, Charlie became more self-conscious which makes him unhappy. He used to be much happier before his operation and he doesn't care that people laugh as he thought people were laughing with and not at him. Him being more self-conscious made him more anti-social and thus having even lesser friends on his current situation of having no friends after being stripped of his job at Donnegan's Factory.

Other than that, after the operation, he realised that who he claimed as good friends like Joe Carp and Frank Reilly did not really like him as a friend, but liked to use him as butts of jokes. This realisation made him become extremely hurt. Without his intelligence, he would not have realised this and carry on with his happy thought that he had good friends who liked to joke with him.
However, to a certain extent, I would think that the gift of intellect is a blessing. After the operation, Charlie became very smart and read up a lot on many subjects, more on Science. He then managed to come up with theories and did a great part for Science.

Thus, I would think that the gift of intellect to a large extent is a curse as he became over self-conscious, caused him his friends, as well coming to the horrible realisation that his "best friends" were not really his friends at all. However, to a certain extent, the gift of intellect is a blessing as he was able to do his part for Science.