i am not. my iq is average. oddly since sz im dumber than i was when i was 13 academically speaking. like i spent so much time battling my mind that i dont even remember how to solve math problems in my head anymore. i could prob relearn it in a day but any time i need to use it i just use a calculator lol
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I was a gifted child in elementary school but after my diagnosis at 15 they retested my IQ and I was told it was lower. I wasnāt allowed to know how much it dropped. My cognition has never been the same again.
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Iām a stable genius. Iām the most stable genius ever. Theyāre eating the dogs.
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Not a genius by any means but I was an advanced reader as a kid. Math not so much. I like to think Iām a bit above average but the reality is Iām probably just average.
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Yeah I am awful at Mathematics
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I was tested as having a very high IQ multiple times, including in college.
I started getting brain lesions in 2009 and havenāt been able to think my way out of a paper bag since
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Yup same! I went to summer school and then after school school then Saturday school. I even had to repeat algebra class my senior year because I couldnāt pass it my junior year. I HATE math.
lol yeah me too @bittercat
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@anon82948922 unfortunately I see clouds like that all the time during tornado seasonā¦scary as hell here when the clouds do that.
When I was about 6 years old, I was professionally tested by a psychologist. She told my mother that āHeās off the scale.ā āHeās one of the most intelligent people in the country.ā I gather that the official score was 157, but there are different IQ scales, and the one she was using only went to 160, and she was in the psychological school of thought that IQās within 3 points of the edge like that are difficult to measure.
How am I managing my schizophrenia diagnosis? Iām currently working at 2 part time jobs and passing university level Organic Chemistry in double time. Yes, double-time. Twice as fast as it has been traditionally taken. Iām on organic chemistry 2 now.
I talk to myself a lot, though.
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This may sound strange. Iām rather āaddictedā (for want of a better word) to seeing how Iāll do on such tests, but increasingly doubtful as to their worth.
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I think @anon82948922 has a genius level IQ
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Well, I can attest to the fact that they donāt make a person instantly a billionaire.
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I wish my iq is that high.
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BWAAAAHAAA. My wife says I am just smart enough to get into trouble.
Which I do. A lot.
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Youāre smart and undoubtedly talented.
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My family members believe Iām a genius but I highly doubt it. They think Iām insightful, but Iām a naive person.
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Mine was tested at public school back in 1972, when I was 15. I was never told the result. Using tests devised by psychometricians itās in the moderate to highly gifted range.
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I donāt really understand what specifically would qualify a person as a āgeniusā. Yes, there are people who are exceptionally good at specific things, but these same people may be exceptionally bad at other things.
IMO, a problem arises when someone is exceptionally good at one thing and then assumes this means they are exceptionally knowledgeable in all things.
I worked for many years in the tech sector and I have come across this type of person in highly technical fields, for example. It is beyond frustrating to work with this type of person as they seem to believe that they are experts in everything. The truth of the matter is that they are ālegends in their own mInd onlyā. 
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Thereās the IQ based idea of genius -140/150/160, and the one, the better one IMO, that requires intelligence with a good amount of creativity. Using that one, although above averagely creative when younger,Iāve never been creative enough to be a āgeniusā
Although many people continue to equate intelligence with genius, a crucial conclusion from Termanās study is that having a high IQ is not equivalent to being highly creative. Subsequent studies by other researchers have reinforced Termanās conclusions, leading to whatās known as the threshold theory, which holds that above a certain level, intelligence doesnāt have much effect on creativity: most creative people are pretty smart, but they donāt have to be that smart, at least as measured by conventional intelligence tests. An IQ of 120, indicating that someone is very smart but not exceptionally so, is generally considered sufficient for creative genius.
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