People ALWAYS tell me I’m smart. They go out of their way to tell me I’m smart for some reason. But I think I’m an idiot. I say stupid things…I think I’m in my head too much and narcissistic, although I think I’m fairly smart. But intelligence is all relative, but there are some people who are clearly not that smart, but most are. Even geniuses don’t strike me as any smarter than myself in some regards. I just have trouble organizing my thoughts too well. I think I’d make a good writer if I could ever get around to doing it. A controversial one who needs to read his works and edit like 5 times, but a writer at that. But at the same time I feel I’m stupid. I feel most SZ people aren’t stupid…but maybe we have trouble with functioning and having high IQ’s and whatnot.
And shout out to @samples32 …you’re real cool and understanding. And I got the volunteer job you told me to turn in the papers for, and have gone in 3 days of work after a year off from work. I guess there was nothing to worry about after all.
There are different kinds of intelligence. Creativity and altruism are valuable traits that don’t get measured. Experience and wisdom are sometimes neglected. I’m a little uncomfortable with the notion that all the mental activity we call intelligence can be reduced to a single number. There was this boxer named Bobby Cxyz who had an IQ of 140. Mohamed Ali’s IQ was much lower, but Ali was so much smarter a boxer than Bobby Cxyz, and I have to question the wisdom of a guy with an IQ of 140 choosing to box.
Paranoid schizophrenia and above average IQs are positively correlated. I took an IQ test on here earlier this year and got 133, I think it was bumped up ten points. I doubt that I have an IQ that high. 123 sounds more accurate. I mean I do make straight As and made a superscore of 32 on the ACT but each time I took it I got a 29 and aced one of the four sections while not acing the other sections. Like first time I got a 34 in reading and the second time I got a 28 in it, then I got a 34 again the third time. Same goes for the other subjects except for math. 24 each time in math. I made a 35 in English the third time. I was pissed because I didn’t make a perfect score.
It takes above average intellect to formulate strong and seemingly plausible delusions.
Yeah, Mohammad Ali was no dummy. He never went to college but he was very articulate and clever and he had an advanced sense of humor. He’s my favorite boxer of all time but I feel sorry for him now. His Parkinson’s has turned him into a shadow of his former self. By the way, I’ve actually heard of Bobby Cxyz.
As a consequence, my parents pulled out of school at grade ten.
Yet despite this, I noticed that “motion” as every one else perceived it, was far different than what they assumed.
The outcome of my analysis of “motion” led to my independent discovery of Albert Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity.
The method that I used is unique. It is found nowhere else on this planet. I revealed this on the following videos. In other words, there is in no way at at all that I could have simply copied this from elsewhere.
I used to be very smart until I got sick. Now I can’t read, I can’t stay put for longer than 30 minutes unless I’m watching a movie. I think we all are just a touch of genius, just a touch of idiot too. I can pull some dumb ■■■■. I think I’m pretty smart still just musically on my instruments though. that and singing.
Almost every illness can stop you from functioning well…You are usually more productive, responsive and active when you are relatively well. Problem with many people is that they label people as they find them. And those labels stick in their heads for most part of their life. I can recall someone saying, probably here on this forum, that you cannot be free if you judge people. It is so much true.
Schizophrenia is an illness and just like other diseases, people who are genuinely suffering from it may not be as smart as others are at certain times. But that’s nothing to do when you are recovered. What they say or what they do shouldn’t be laughed at or humiliated about. I do not see any reason to neglect anyone including sufferers of schiz or also disgrace them for their condition.
People saying I’m smart all the time too. I am though. But when I start thinking everyone around me is completely incompetent then I know mania is approaching lol
People think I’m lazy though. Maybe I can be a little lazy but I wish I could tell them it’s mainly my negative symptoms destroying me.
I’ve never really played a musical instrument till this year besides elementary school.
It’s strange I don’t practice much and my piano skill is improving rather quickly. I am able to visualize small pieces in my head and then I just look for those sounds and patterns on the keyboard and play them. If I put some actual effort into learning I think I think i will be quite decent.
My roommate heard me playing one day when he was in the kitchen and he comes out and says. “Dude that sounds really good!” He didn’t believe me at first that I had just started learning lol
I can visualize a big piece of composition that I’ve thought up so easily. Now I just need to learn how to put it to use
Even if we scored high in the IQ tests, this illness of our can cause us to do stupid things and mistakes. Then there is a difference between the IQ and smartness, f.ex. people who may excel academically may not succeed at all on the streets.
it sounds to me like you’ve got a case of the I’m-smart-because-i-continue-to-think-i’m-an-idiot, to me, but i could be wrong…
what i mean by saying “I’m-smart-because-i-continue-to-think-i’m-an-idiot”, is that in many cases when someone is still in some sort of process, they will continue to think that they are not at their potential, for instance, and thats sort of like their brain telling them (as it is a part of you), that you can be a whole lot better than you think you are already and need to keep working towards it… hmmm, its extremely possible that you are very intelligent simply because you continue to think that you are an idiot…
although I’m not quite in that phase of life anymore where it bothers me, i do enjoy reflecting sometimes… and i will probably end up repeating the process once i reach that phase again…
hmm… perhaps try “integration of opposites” as a technique… if it takes too long to evolve, that is.
My aunt used to tell me all the time, “You’re so smart, you’re stupid.” Said I didn’t have common sense. Of course, most of the time she knew me I was unstable and ill, so I can’t argue.
