Higher IQ

[Rev. Rye]

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120?
Yes. When I was a kid, I had my IQ tested, and I scored 176. I'm not sure which test was used (though my therapist thinks it may have been the Weschler). Admittedly, I take these results with a grain of salt.

 If so:
1) How did you fare academically?

Fair to middling early on in school, partly because of school teachers making a point of not adapting to kids on the autism spectrum (even if the law said they should). Of course, after Junior year of high school, I no longer had to take gym class. My GPA went up an entire point after that. By college, I can only remember getting lower than a B in two classes (over several years).


2) How fast did you learn a new concept?

Pretty damn quick if I could put my mind to it.

3) Did you have to study much outside of school?

No.

4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?

If it interests me, it's easy. If it doesn't, or involves serious levels of social skills, it's not.

5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc

For the longest time, my thoughts were "what the fuck is wrong with these people?" Sometimes, I've actually flat out said aloud that I was surrounded by idiots in my high school classes and in at least one case, the teacher actually agreed with me. More recently, I took an accounting class, and looking at someone next to me bungling the Excel portion of an exam spectacularly, it took a load of willpower for me to not just commandeer her computer and do her exam myself.

6) When you solve a problem in let's say mathematics (you can use another example) what is your approach and thought process when solving it?

Look up possible solutions, try and plug them into whatever I'm trying to solve, and see what works.

7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?

As a kid, I learned a new language every year. Sadly, I wound up forgetting most of them. Sadly, I did not fare as well in foreign language classes later in my life (whether the Latin classes in High School or in the German classes I took in college), probably because of my habit for trying to write my own sample translation sentences. Honestly, some of the things I came up with terrified my German teacher so much I had to talk with the dean.

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what a high IQ is even meant to fully mean. In theory, it should involve higher levels of thought, but, honestly, empirical evidence doesn't necessarily bear it out. Apparently, Stanley Kubrick was tested in his youth and actually scored below average (honestly a bit unfathomable for anyone who knows anything about Kubrick), and, conversely, Joachim von Ribbentropp, who managed to end up high enough on the Nazi Totem Pole to be executed at Nuremberg despite having little to no ability to do ANYTHING Hitler assigned him to do (seriously: look up his time as German ambassador to England; it could be turned into a sitcom and you wouldn't have to change the historical record at all) and somehow wound up scoring 129 on the Weschler.