The problem with being gifted in IQ tests

[Eternatus]

When I was a kid my mother took me to the hospital and I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. I was often nonverbal and always walked around with my head down. I constantly felt an abnormal level of tiredness for someone my age. My mother is obsessed with assigning a psychological disorder to anyone so she had me checked.

What I don’t understand is how I could perform so well on IQ tests, I once scored 159, and a few years later, when I took another one, the doctor told me I was well above the 99th percentile. I could’ve easily been an IQmogger, and my life would’ve been completely different. But instead of being at Harvard finishing my PhD in quantum computing, I’m a pathetic failure working at an airport surrounded by equally retarded people.

I get made fun of all the time, I’m crooked, hunched over, and I spend my free time gaming and gooning. When I try to read or learn something, it takes me forever or I just can’t remember anything. I even tried to learn German and couldn’t manage that either.

I don’t want to say it’s ADHD, autism, or any of that because it all feels cope. Either I really am just a young dementia case and those old test results don’t mean anything anymore, something I’d rather not confirm because it would crush me, or I’m just so low inhib that I burned away a life of success and fulfillment for nothing. Maybe everything would’ve turned out differently if I’d just looked better.

 

[unwantedloser95]

Autists are either highly successful in a very specific field of study, or utter failures destined to work grunt jobs for the rest of miserable lives, with no in-between. Add in ADHD with its concentration problems and you're fucked. Sadly, IQ only helps so much when you have other things going on mentally. I have a high iq too but I'm a NEET.

 

[Sex-Starved Beast]

IQ tests are only a small fraction of intelligence. To become a harvard graduate for example you need many more skills than just pattern recognition, and being nonverbal and depresses as a kid were probably better predictors of what your future was going to be than the IQ tests. That's why foids do better in school despite not always being smarter (altough I knew some foids who did better because they were legitimately high IQ as well). Only having a high IQ is not that special: for every 140 IQ incel who can't use it due to mental illness and social incompetence, there is a 140 IQ Chad or foid who doesn't have any of the drawbacks. That's how unfair the world is.
Early onset dementia is extremely unlikely. If you really want to know if there was effectively a regression in IQ, the only way is to take an IQ test. Maybe you'll get a score almost as good as the ones you got as a kid, and you'll have proof that you are still smart and that you have been nerfed by something else, most likely the depression.
Also, don't think about "what it could have been". It's pointless, makes you suffer, and you'll never know for sure anyway.

 

[Ser0]

No one ever said that IQ equals success.
You spend your time and energy to get a PhD, and you dont apply for a job with your IQ test score do you?
If you already associate a number to success, imagine what would happen if you "just looked better".
Let go of it.

 

[Horatio Ludwiczek]

Bivariate normal distribution shows that high IQ does not always equate to equally high achievement and vice versa

IQ and conventional measures of success merely correlate around 0.5 (IQ lifetime income correlation and IQ academic success correlation)

So for every high IQ underachiever, there is a low IQ overachiever as exceptions to the rule


Just like the height basketball correlation, despite the average NBA player being super tall, there are occasional exceptions such as Baggsy standing at 5'3. And not every +6'6 male plays basketball (lacks either body kinesthetic talent, opportunity, or drive)

 

[Horatio Ludwiczek]

I once scored 159, and a few years later, when I took another one, the doctor told me I was well above the 99th percentile

Very similar experience!!!

Although in my case, I got tested on a nonverbal IQ test at age 10 (g loading stabilizes around that age according to Hernstein and Murray), and took a scholastic test in adulthood, not a few years later

 

[Freixel]

Over for HighIQcels, maybe i'm one of them, i hope.

I once read that having a highiq correlates with more probability of beign single and a failure in sexual relationships

 

[Eternatus]

No one ever said that IQ equals success.
You spend your time and energy to get a PhD, and you dont apply for a job with your IQ test score do you?
If you already associate a number to success, imagine what would happen if you "just looked better".
Let go of it.

Redpill.is

Jfl Im just not in control of the things that happen to me and im tired, I legit don’t know how to proceed on being a functional adult in the years to come.

 

[Eternatus]

Over for HighIQcels

 

[SociallyStunted]

Even if you did go to college and did all that, you still wouldn’t of made it far/ into a high paying job, because of a lack of connections. Connections will always beat being high iq

 

[anon65]

There are tons of studies showing the inverse relationship between iq above 100 and having sex. Below 70 and above 110 have less sex.

 

[Ser0]

Redpill.is

Jfl Im just not in control of the things that happen to me and im tired, I legit don’t know how to proceed on being a functional adult in the years to come.

Well... not by avoiding the truth and replacing it with cope or lies.

Either way.. overthinking is not a sign of weakness, its a tired heart trying to control what it isnt capable of controlling.
Do what you can to the best of your capability, and then let it go. No matter how good you performed, it doesnt equal getting the result you aimed for. The result is not something you can control. You can only aim for it.

 

[PvZcel]

I got into Mensa at 16 but I am still a fuck up. Having high IQ without support or anything is a waste.

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

I got into Mensa at 16 but I am still a fuck up. Having high IQ without support or anything is a waste.

Lowiqcels are in a bad situation. But us highiqcels aren't in much better of a situation. It's the midwits who are the biggest retards, who have these galaxy brains to justify their UG/geocentric-esque belief called the bluepill.

 

[Livonica_Irreale]

I got into Mensa at 16 but I am still a fuck up. Having high IQ without support or anything is a waste.

 

[Judge Holden]

Autists are either highly successful in a very specific field of study, or utter failures destined to work grunt jobs for the rest of miserable lives, with no in-between. Add in ADHD with its concentration problems and you're fucked. Sadly, IQ only helps so much when you have other things going on mentally. I have a high iq too but I'm a NEET.

Only having a high IQ is not that special: for every 140 IQ incel who can't use it due to mental illness and social incompetence, there is a 140 IQ Chad or foid who doesn't have any of the drawbacks. That's how unfair the world is.

 

[Judge Holden]

Having high IQ without support or anything is a waste.

 

[zangano1]

Im one of the smartest men on earth

 

[OnlyLings]

There are different types of intelligence though. One person might be extremely smart on an IQ test, but might lack social skills. One person might be smart working with their hands, but be dumb with IQ tests. Also it is possible to have an extremely high IQ, and have extremely good cognitive ability in general, but have short term memory loss or other memory issues.

But sometimes it is better to think of something else to try to enjoy life or enjoy things. Even if its just a sip of coffee, or chewing your favorite flavor of gum. Something to disassociate from reality for a few moments, take a break from the horrors in life.