In middle school this male troper knew a rather obnoxious variety of this. She would call me a crybaby whenever she caught me crying in the slightest, no matter how much I tried to hide it... when catching me talking to myself she would be all like "oh look the crybaby guy is talking to his imaginary friends now." She even spread false rumours about me, and defended them by saying "well if they weren't true you wouldn't be getting all defensive now would you?" And so, I am not fond of the idea of associating snarkiness with intelligence, especially with how ridiculous the logic of some of her snarking was. (On a sidenote, she was rumoured to have a crush on me, though I never got to see her reactions to that rumour, and if it were true then that is a horrible approach to take to hiding OR expressing it.)

how old were you 12? not many people when your that young know how to express those newfangled feelings they're suddenly having. granted years later they most likely still won't be able to express those feelings reliably.

About 12, at the time, yeah. In any case, not knowing how to express them is not an excuse.

A real life {{Tsundere}}?

I added it to that page's TroperTales section as well, but really it isn't as endearing when you encounter one in real life.

my neighbor across the street from where i used to live was like this when she wasn't just plain out mean to my brother, it was quite obvious she liked him though.

I've been told (in a rather harsh manner) that I was somewhat like this when I was younger...and by younger, I mean when I was around seven or eight years old. Granted, I'm probably more of a {{Deadpan Snarker}} now, but in reality, I'm not that bad. Really.

Both of my little sisters (ages 9 and 15) fit this to some degree.

Pick just about any little girl on this troper's bus. She's a LittleMissSnarker.

this troper could almost be mistaken for this. she looks young enough people often think she's still got a few years before she hits legal drinking age even tho she's in her early 30's (seriously, it's to the point she gets mistaken for being younger than her oldest niece) and can snark with the best of them. granted, while her experiences with public schooling and growing up with the neighborhood bully living in the house behind hers made her pretty withdrawn from people and develop an attitude of expect the worst because then you'll be pleasantly surprised instead of crushed at an early age the few people that did get on friendly terms with her knew that she could be a real LittleMissSnarker even when she really was little and when not around people she was friendly with/trusted she'd have snarky internal monologues going on in her head, so she really was one at one point. having a high IQ (to the point in elementary school she was correcting teachers about some science matters, did long division for fun three years before she was in the grade that covered that, and was reading at a college level by grade 3 and was using words some of her teachers didn't even know) and putting up with mass stupidity and illogical behavior from classmates can lead one to become a snarker even if they weren't on the receiving end of childhood bullying and a sickly kid.

this troper has also been compared to House, as in "you're what House would be if he was small, female, and slightly more jovial with his snarking."