> *it is a sort of "I told you so" moment towards those who pushed the wrong mes...

> it is a sort of "I told you so" moment towards those who pushed the wrong message on them

Or it's self-validation that struggling in school doesn't doom them to a life defined by mediocrity.

randomdata on Dec 18, 2017 [–]

I think it is fair to say that "I told you so" is always about self-validation.