I’m a member and I’ve never been to a meeting
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A bloke who’s even more obsessed about his IQ than I am about mine has been private messaging me on FB. He makes no attempt to broaden the conversation , which consists of often contradictory statements re how intelligent he is - along with a lot of paranoia. The thing is he’s actually really intelligent, but very dysfunctional. The thought of ending up like that is not a pleasant one.
He reminds me of the pitiful letters I read, from my great aunt’s father in law to his wife . He ended up spending the last few years of his life in an asylum, with alcohol related dementia. He’d repeat himself again and again in his letters to his wife.
The bloke who messages me does the same kind of thing. He’s been living in a care home for the past 15 years. F****d his brain up with illegal substances
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There was a boxer a while back who had an IQ of 140. He was good, but not really championship material. I think he got to the 5th place ranking for a short while when he boxed. I’m sorry, but I have to question the wisdom of a man with an IQ of 140 choosing to box.
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I rather be dumb than smart with a mental illness.
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With me it would depend on how bad the mental illness was.
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A good number among the high IQ community, including myself, do have a mental illness and/or autism dx. With some it’s a severe mental illness dx. There was a regular test creator with schizophrenia who posted here for a short while. The content of his posts was more than a little delusional.
IMO if you’re living with an SMI what you need most is common sense and good practical skills. I don’t score well when it comes to them. That’s due more to the ASD than the SMI. With ASD adaptive functioning level is often lower than would be expected given a person’s IQ . See The Gap between IQ and Adaptive Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Disentangling Diagnostic and Sex Differences - PMC
Unfortunately the average mental health professional is rather clueless about it. That results in a history of rather negative and hostile treatment by mental health professionals for many of us later dxed with ASD. That’s because our failure to live up to expectations, re those skills covered by adaptive functioning, tends to be regarded as a character flaw.
The older you get before it’s realised it’s not due to a character flaw but something you need genuine help and support for, the smaller the window of opportunity is to live up to your full potential. The older the person is the harder it is to teach them new tricks.
IMO @shutterbug and @77nick77 are good examples of those with SMI who score high on common sense and practical skills.
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