As a lot of you know, I started getting involved with high IQ groups around the time of Covid starting to spread. I wanted something I was at least moderately good at. A counter to the many things I’m rather useless at. Part of that has involved taking part in FB groups and relevant subreddits. Whereas the FB groups have been overall friendly and positive, the subreddits haven’t. I’ve been treated like crap quite a few times by people who post there.
I’ve joined-quit-joined etc quite a few times. I decided to play a regular ‘game’ there, which is to post your scores and ask ‘What do you think my IQ is?’. It was driven by curiosity. Basically got told most of the tests I’d got scores on were trash . This from a subreddit that specialises in cannibalising parts of pro tests and then joining them together like an IQ test creating version of Dr Frankenstein.
I’m now going through my usual outward denial and inward psychological self whipping. To put it simply I feel like I’m a fraudulent fool. That there’s nothing I’m any good at.