I have a sneaking suspicion that if this topic takes off, eventually it will turn into the opposite of the title...but what the hey. :]
It was so long ago, I don't even remember what teacher it was...but when I was just a little kid in elementary school, a teacher once wrote on an essay or report card or something that I had 'wit'.
And at the time I was surprised and delighted. Like, wit? Me, witty? Like a Charles Dickens character?? Even though I suck at making friends and if I couldn't draw no one in the class would know I existed?? You see through all that...and you think I have wit??
It's crazy to think about, but it was probably one of the formative points of my life, to receive such a unique and unexpected compliment. ^^ Until then, I didn't know that anyone thought anything about my personality other than 'quiet'.
I think it might have been what helped motivate me to take on more serious creative work...there's just something about knowing that, no matter how low your self-worth is or how much you feel like a mistake, people can see/read your work and think so much more of you than that. My art wasn't just something to make people pay attention to me for a few brief moments...it was a new way of relating to the world.
Although, on the darker side, it's kind of like a mask, then. Something I can hide behind and have speak for me...but I don't think that's necessarily a terrible thing. Some of the most depressing years of my life were when I was the most artistically active, and that probably wasn't coincidence. Who knows how I would've turned out if I didn't have the option to stop being me for a few hours every day and be 'DokiDokiTsuna'? The great and lovable artist, and the 'wit' that no one (apart from that one teacher) ever recognized IRL?
In conclusion: Yes, I am a wit; thanks for noticing, teacher-from-the-past! And I also have many other fantastic qualities that will continue to shine through in the work that I do, no matter what the people around me think.