Higher IQ

[Whateverist]

I don't think about it.  Whether others are faster or slower does me no good.  In the end I have to make sense of things myself.  Even if the 'smartest' woman in the world says a thing is so, if I can't verify it for myself, I have to hold it as unsettled.  If a thing makes sense it will make sense to me.  If it doesn't make sense to me, there is a good chance people who disagree are wrong.  Is that conceit or base level self respect?  I think the latter.

Guess what I'm saying is I'm all-in on relying on my own wits so it really doesn't matter what any test shows.  I'm all I've got and I'm not complaining.

[brewer]

As some of you may have noticed I've had other threads talking about intelligence, the malleability of it etc because I am geniunely interested in it, I'd prefer not have any comments about how I shouldn't worry about this, how I should think less about this and do my best etc. This thread is not because I want to compare myself. I'm simply interested in how brains work differently, what are the signs, in what way they are different etc.

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120? If so:
1) How did you fare academically?
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
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?
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?

Personally I believe someone with a higher IQ has a much better and much more efficient thought process combined with a more powerful subconscious (pattern recognition, memory and such is very important too).

My mother was a school teacher in our school system. We were tested multiple times in school (others here may have been also and don't know it, it was not always presented as an IQ test), she had access, we heard our scores. Approaching 60, I'm confident that I'd be disgusted over my testing ability now.

1. Overall very well. In mandatory classes I hated, not so well.
2. Yes.
3. K-12 almost never. Undergrad 30%. Grad 50%.
4. Advanced Math. And what I found boring. 
5. Tolerant, tried to elevate them whenever possible.
6. Depends on the problem.
7. Same as memorizing music. POC.

IQ does not equal success.

[Homeless Nutter]

I think I used to be quite smart, before all the drugs...

I remember taking some kind of IQ test shortly before high-school. People administering the test seemed very enthusiastic about my result, so much so, that they made me come again and do a whole bunch more tests. I know what you're thinking - I too expected them to molest me, alas - I was an ugly child and they didn't... I don't remember what my scores were, I guess it wasn't that important to me at the time. I was 14 years old, of course I knew I was the smartest person on the planet.  

I took a bunch of self-administered IQ tests as an adult, like the ones available online. I usually scored between 120 and 140, depending on the test and how high I was, while taking it...

1) How did you fare academically?

Very well at first. In high-school I discovered there were other things, beyond school curriculum and while I still excelled (by mediocre standards of my public school) in classes, that interested me, I neglected those that didn't, sometimes to the point of nearly failing the year. I wasn't all that interested in education at that point, largely because schools I went to never had many options for extra-curricular activities, or other ways of furthering my interests.

I went on to study philosophy at the University - mostly to avoid military service - where I did reasonably well, considering I failed to show up to most of my lectures and was mostly preoccupied with playing in bands and making music. But after 2 years I didn't want to remain a financial burden on my parents, studying something I had only a faint interest in and with no real prospective job options - so I dropped out and that was the end of my academic career...

2) How fast did you learn a new concept?

Not sure what that means, but I guess - depends on the concept...

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

No. Didn't have to study much in school either. I'd just pay attention in class, for the most part. Read a few chapters of a textbook, before bigger exams. That kind of stopped me from developing any sort of discipline, when it came to learning stuff.

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

Most things were/are fairly easy for me to learn, if I apply myself. But I've always found it difficult to put the effort into studying subjects which I considered boring. Music was perhaps a bit more difficult, than some things, because I don't think I ever had any particular talent in that direction, which may be why I stuck with it for a long time - because it remained a challenge. But maybe that's just because I taught myself music and I'm just as lousy a teacher as I am a student...

Also, anything that required me to take other people's emotions and irrationality into consideration - like social interaction with people of my age - was inscrutable to me.

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

As a book-worm kind of child I learned quickly, that most people are dull, insecure and violent. To be fair - for a smart kid - I took quite a long time, learning to keep my mouth shut and not come across as a "wise-ass"...

But it depends. I used to hang around with musicians a lot - many (most?) of them are thick as pig-sh*t. Didn't bother me much, as long as we were playing music. But at work, for example, dumb people drive me mad.

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?

Again - it largely depends. On the nature of the problem, available resources, my motivation, intoxicants in my system. I'm not a very disciplined thinker.

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

Languages come easy to me. At one point or another I learned 4 languages, not counting my native tongue, or the few semesters of Latin at the Uni. I also forgot most of them, because I haven't had much chance to use them - except for English, as I've been living in London for years now. But if pressed - I can probably still understand a fair bit of German, Russian and Spanish.

[TheRealJoeFish]

As some of you may have noticed I've had other threads talking about intelligence, the malleability of it etc because I am geniunely interested in it, I'd prefer not have any comments about how I shouldn't worry about this, how I should think less about this and do my best etc. This thread is not because I want to compare myself. I'm simply interested in how brains work differently, what are the signs, in what way they are different etc.

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120? If so:
1) How did you fare academically?
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
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?
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?

Personally I believe someone with a higher IQ has a much better and much more efficient thought process combined with a more powerful subconscious (pattern recognition, memory and such is very important too).

Yes, I've been tested above 120.

Like Rob, I'll hide this because it's kind of long.

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1) In Kindergarten, I explained jet propulsion and caterpillar metamorphosis to my teacher in rather scientifically rigorous terms.  Apparently the school district had been considering moving me up a grade at the end of the year, but my kindergarten teacher told them to do it immediately, so I skipped into 1st grade about a month into the school year.  I learned later that, when I was in 4th grade, the district recommended to my parents that I move up again, but they declined, since I was already rather young and socially inept.  When I got to middle school, I took part in math competitions and placed among the top few in the state at my age level.  In high school, I took calculus as a freshman, and did lots of independent study/college work my junior and senior years.  Although I excelled at mathematics, I was pretty advanced in every subject.  As for my grades, well... they clearly lagged behind my ability.  I've just never been naturally motivated to do things like schoolwork, and I would often run a 99% average on tests and a 50% on homework.  I got a bunch of Cs and Ds in high school, and graduated just barely in the top half of my class (despite having the highest SAT in the school and such).  In undergrad, I studied mathematics, and continued to do competitions (which were far more difficult, though I still had what I considered good success on the Putnam exam).  I finished the math portion of my degree requirements in 5 semesters, at which point I realized that I *did not* want to do mathematics as a career (by my 5th semester, my GPA had dropped to about a B-, primarily because I was bored).  I got minors in creative writing and philosophy, and went to law school.  In my first year of law school, I convinced myself to give it one year - just one year - of actually putting in the work to try to achieve what I felt to be my maximum potential.  I did quite well (just outside top 5% in my class), transferred to a much better school (leaving behind a large scholarship but getting a great degree in the geographic area I wanted to live in), and ultimately finished law school with good-not-great grades.

2) I can pick up new abstract concepts with ease. 

3) Until law school, I did virtually no studying outside of school, because I found studying boring as hell and didn't care if I pulled Cs.  In law school, I studied quite a bit less than my classmates.  I would read the cases for the day's class on the bus on the way to school, and otherwise not do any extra work during the semester.  To study for the exam, I would take about 3 days and read the entire case book front-to-back, writing out notes and outlines on every single case we covered.  Essentially, for a 3 hour exam, I'd probably study about 30 hours over the course of the semester, with 20-25 of those hours being in the week before the exam.

4) It is very difficult for me to learn how to do things with my hands.  I have very little dexterity or agility working with objects, and so would be helpless with, say, a car engine.  For things like biological concepts, literary ideas, and, especially, mathematical concepts, I generally need to encounter them a single time to gain a fairly deep understanding of them.

5) I was always happy to help anyone who wanted it but I didn't care if other people didn't "get it."  I mean, the way I saw it, a C because you understood everything immediately but didn't put in any effort (that is, what I did) is less respectable than a C because you just couldn't figure it out despite trying really really hard.  I was generally aloof from all of that, because school always bored me. I was younger than all of my classmates, and already felt a little singled out because of that, so I just tried to be friendly to everyone.

6) A mathematics problem is sort of my specialty.  I'm at what I'd call, essentially, a "high non-genius" level. What I mean by that is this: some people, when you ask them a complex mathematics problem, know the answer immediately.  I call that person a genius.  I'm not that, but I'm just extremely fast at doing the steps, and I can keep track of a lot of numbers in my head at once.  For sort of a complex math problem, like a Putnam Exam problem, it's a matter of simplifying and analogizing, turning the information you have into information that's slightly more helpful, and then doing that over and over until you can massage the answer out of the numbers.

7) I would say I'm average at learning languages.  I have a very good memory, and can generally remember nouns quickly.  I have a lot more trouble with verbs.  (Wonder if that's normal.)  I only ever took formal classes in one language (other than English): French.  I can generally read French at, say, an adult basic level (like what you'd get in a newspaper, say), write a bit, and would be able to stumble through some speaking if I had to (one time I was in London, wearing shorts in the snow, and an elderly woman who spoke only French asked something like "vous etes froid, non?", and I was able to respond "un peu!").  I've been cycling through languages on Duolingo (if you don't know what that is, google it) and am currently learning Swedish (I have a handful of Swedish friends).  Something neat happened the other day - I was trying to think of a word for something and I thought of the Swedish word (halsduk) before the English word (scarf)! But I digress.  Decent at languages.

Perhaps also of note: my short-term memory is not particularly good but my long-term memory for facts and numbers is very good.  I am very good at trivia.  I am very into sports, and very interested in the numbers and advanced statistics.  Interestingly enough, I can remember statistic very well, but I can't remember anyone's jersey or uniform number; I almost feel like that's because my memory works differently for quantitative numbers vs. descriptive numbers.

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[RozKek]

Yes, I've been tested above 120.

Like Rob, I'll hide this because it's kind of long.

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1) In Kindergarten, I explained jet propulsion and caterpillar metamorphosis to my teacher in rather scientifically rigorous terms.  Apparently the school district had been considering moving me up a grade at the end of the year, but my kindergarten teacher told them to do it immediately, so I skipped into 1st grade about a month into the school year.  I learned later that, when I was in 4th grade, the district recommended to my parents that I move up again, but they declined, since I was already rather young and socially inept.  When I got to middle school, I took part in math competitions and placed among the top few in the state at my age level.  In high school, I took calculus as a freshman, and did lots of independent study/college work my junior and senior years.  Although I excelled at mathematics, I was pretty advanced in every subject.  As for my grades, well... they clearly lagged behind my ability.  I've just never been naturally motivated to do things like schoolwork, and I would often run a 99% average on tests and a 50% on homework.  I got a bunch of Cs and Ds in high school, and graduated just barely in the top half of my class (despite having the highest SAT in the school and such).  In undergrad, I studied mathematics, and continued to do competitions (which were far more difficult, though I still had what I considered good success on the Putnam exam).  I finished the math portion of my degree requirements in 5 semesters, at which point I realized that I *did not* want to do mathematics as a career (by my 5th semester, my GPA had dropped to about a B-, primarily because I was bored).  I got minors in creative writing and philosophy, and went to law school.  In my first year of law school, I convinced myself to give it one year - just one year - of actually putting in the work to try to achieve what I felt to be my maximum potential.  I did quite well (just outside top 5% in my class), transferred to a much better school (leaving behind a large scholarship but getting a great degree in the geographic area I wanted to live in), and ultimately finished law school with good-not-great grades.

2) I can pick up new abstract concepts with ease. 

3) Until law school, I did virtually no studying outside of school, because I found studying boring as hell and didn't care if I pulled Cs.  In law school, I studied quite a bit less than my classmates.  I would read the cases for the day's class on the bus on the way to school, and otherwise not do any extra work during the semester.  To study for the exam, I would take about 3 days and read the entire case book front-to-back, writing out notes and outlines on every single case we covered.  Essentially, for a 3 hour exam, I'd probably study about 30 hours over the course of the semester, with 20-25 of those hours being in the week before the exam.

4) It is very difficult for me to learn how to do things with my hands.  I have very little dexterity or agility working with objects, and so would be helpless with, say, a car engine.  For things like biological concepts, literary ideas, and, especially, mathematical concepts, I generally need to encounter them a single time to gain a fairly deep understanding of them.

5) I was always happy to help anyone who wanted it but I didn't care if other people didn't "get it."  I mean, the way I saw it, a C because you understood everything immediately but didn't put in any effort (that is, what I did) is less respectable than a C because you just couldn't figure it out despite trying really really hard.  I was generally aloof from all of that, because school always bored me. I was younger than all of my classmates, and already felt a little singled out because of that, so I just tried to be friendly to everyone.

6) A mathematics problem is sort of my specialty.  I'm at what I'd call, essentially, a "high non-genius" level. What I mean by that is this: some people, when you ask them a complex mathematics problem, know the answer immediately.  I call that person a genius.  I'm not that, but I'm just extremely fast at doing the steps, and I can keep track of a lot of numbers in my head at once.  For sort of a complex math problem, like a Putnam Exam problem, it's a matter of simplifying and analogizing, turning the information you have into information that's slightly more helpful, and then doing that over and over until you can massage the answer out of the numbers.

7) I would say I'm average at learning languages.  I have a very good memory, and can generally remember nouns quickly.  I have a lot more trouble with verbs.  (Wonder if that's normal.)  I only ever took formal classes in one language (other than English): French.  I can generally read French at, say, an adult basic level (like what you'd get in a newspaper, say), write a bit, and would be able to stumble through some speaking if I had to (one time I was in London, wearing shorts in the snow, and an elderly woman who spoke only French asked something like "vous etes froid, non?", and I was able to respond "un peu!").  I've been cycling through languages on Duolingo (if you don't know what that is, google it) and am currently learning Swedish (I have a handful of Swedish friends).  Something neat happened the other day - I was trying to think of a word for something and I thought of the Swedish word (halsduk) before the English word (scarf)! But I digress.  Decent at languages.

Perhaps also of note: my short-term memory is not particularly good but my long-term memory for facts and numbers is very good.  I am very good at trivia.  I am very into sports, and very interested in the numbers and advanced statistics.  Interestingly enough, I can remember statistic very well, but I can't remember anyone's jersey or uniform number; I almost feel like that's because my memory works differently for quantitative numbers vs. descriptive numbers.

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This was insane, I loved reading through it seriously
And I was mind blown here

 I explained jet propulsion and caterpillar metamorphosis to my teacher in rather scientifically rigorous terms.

Also, I can help out with the swedish if you need  In that case you'll have to help out with the French, I have studied it for two years now, I like it a lot but the lectures are boring as fuck, anyway I understood what the lady and you said, I'm impressed by myself.

This is a bit about how I was doing/am doing intelligence wise.

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And like you, I'm bad at using my hands but I'm not completely horrible (although I got an A in both woodwork and needlework), and generally I have quite an easy time understanding concepts but if in some cases I get stuck I need to encounter the problem and get it explained to me otherwise I'll be braindead for quite some time.

And for my memory I'd consider myself having a quite good long term memory, relatively speaking, I can study much much less than my classmates and still ace exams although I doubt very much who I'm comparing myself to, I don't know how I would fare relatively speaking in a better school. I usually study in total somewhere around 1,6 hours split into 2-3 days before an exam and I can ace it, I don't know if that's average or not.

And I have an easy time learning new languages, since birth I've spoken two languages, kurdish and swedish. In 4th and 5th grade, being exposed to english through video games and tv mostly I was very very good at english for my age. Now I'm daydreaming through the French lectures but I'm still decent at it, although yet again I don't know who I'm comparing myself too. No one in my school tries except very few. I've never had my IQ tested and if I'd guess I'd say I have maybe a tiny tiny bit above average? (I don't have any good comparisons, no one I know uses their full potentinal (I think), my guess probably isn't accurate).

School and such went easy for me when I started taking it seriously. in 5th grade and below I was seriously a dumbfuck, I never ever did my homework, didn't care about school, daydreamed through the lectures, I barely understood multiplication. The only thing I was good at was english and swedish, but then in 6th grade I started taking it more seriously and got C's, D's which is quite damn shit. I don't know what the flying fuck happened in 7th grade but I skyrocketed in grades, at the end of 7th grade I had many A's and B's, I had enough points to get into Gothenburgs best senior high schools. Then in 8th grade, my comprehension, problem solving, thought process and everything just became much better (again?) for some reason and I've now heightened my grades even better. So I adapted to school very easily and got great grades, took quite a big leap there. Although I definitely do not consider myself even near your intelligence or anyone else who have posted in this thread. No one really elaborated except you, and if judging by what you wrote; if someone with 120+ IQ is like this, I definitely don't think I'm near. Maybe if I get off this damn computer and stop playing 12 hours a day and try for some mental stimulation I'll really find out... probably not :<
Also please keep in mind, all this is from kindergarten to 8th grade and not above, I can't really say how I'd be doing in high school (sophomore year to senior year) and above where it's more challenging.
Anyway! Summerbreak for me is in two days and after that I'll fare off to 9th grade, then if I keep my shit up I'll go to one of Gothenburgs best high schools (sophomore year, I don't know how this american system works. In Sweden we have from 0-9 in 9th grade you're usually 15-16 years old, then gymnasiet 1-3rd grade, (första, andra och tredje ring) equilivant to your sophomore year to senior year) then on to university! Wish me luck

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@All Anyway something I've always wanted to ask people with high IQ's whom are good problem solvers and like mathematics: Did you from time to time in around 7th-9th grade ever get mental blocks when doing maths? Like not understanding a problem, and just not figuring out how to solve it/why it is the way it is (<-- I probably annoy my teacher asking why something is the way it is in mathematics). And I'm not talking about problems that are usually way too advanced for the average 7th-9th grade. Did you from time to time get stuck on math problems presented to you in 7th-9th grade?

[drfuzzy]

As some of you may have noticed I've had other threads talking about intelligence, the malleability of it etc because I am geniunely interested in it, I'd prefer not have any comments about how I shouldn't worry about this, how I should think less about this and do my best etc. This thread is not because I want to compare myself. I'm simply interested in how brains work differently, what are the signs, in what way they are different etc.

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120? If so:
1) How did you fare academically?
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
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?
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?

Personally I believe someone with a higher IQ has a much better and much more efficient thought process combined with a more powerful subconscious (pattern recognition, memory and such is very important too).

Yeah, ok, I'll add my 2 cents worth.  Though I would like to preface this with the comment that my brother (who is quite brilliant) claims that my IQ has a floating decimal point.  You know, it clicks one number left occasionally . . . then clicks back after I have created inspired chaos.  But sure . . . we were both tested in grade school, and again in middle school . . . skipped grades . . . off 'n' on Mensa members.

1) How did you fare academically?   I have two Master's degrees and a Doctorate.
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?   Usually very quickly.
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?   Almost never.  
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?   I hated Political Science and Algebra.
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc   - - Hmm.  Not a problem.  UNLESS you have tried teaching them something 15 different ways and it still isn't getting through.  Then I get a little frustrated.
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?   --  ???  --  approach?  Varies, depending upon the problem.  And I'm not terribly fond of math.  I did the work, that's all.
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?  -- Well, I don't think that my classes in French, German, and Spanish were all that good.  We had a lot of written work and memorization and almost no conversation practice.  So I can still read quite a bit but I'm not fluent in any of 'em.  

[Thumpalumpacus]

Now to the question; are there any members here with an or any members who know someone with a higher IQ of >120?

142 here, on my last test some years ago ... no doubt it's declined, especially if you listen to my ex-girls.

If so:
1) How did you fare academically?

In high school, thoroughly average; the curriculum bored me. In college, 3.88 GPA.

2) How fast did you learn a new concept?

That depends on the field. I have difficulty with mathematics, only studied up to trig and didn't retain much. Language, history, and music, I'm pretty sharp on the uptake.

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

In grade-school years, yes. High school in America, hardly at all, except for maths. College, a bit, but by that point, studying was (and remains) fun.

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

Answered above.

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

It taught me patience, something I never learnt in school. It's easy for me to look down on others -- I'm an arrogant asshole at times -- but interacting with folks who may not know as much about subject X as I do taught me that they may know a lot more about subject Y than I could hope to learn.

So I had to abandon my own judgmental outlook and learn that intelligence comes in many shades. You're purple, I'm green and so on.

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?

Reasoning is my heuristic no matter the field -- except emotional intelligence. In that regard, empathy becomes my guide; I try to see things from your point of view.

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

My only other language, Spanish, came difficult to me, and while I can hold a rough conversation I'm by no definition fluent. The process was eased by having background knowledge of Latin roots and using that knowledge as a mnemonic. But I was 25 by the time I took learning a second language seriously; I learnt it from my girlfriend in Spain, with the help of a Spanish/English dictionary and a mad crush.

Personally I believe someone with a higher IQ has a much better and much more efficient thought process combined with a more powerful subconscious (pattern recognition, memory and such is very important too).

Perhaps. But intelligence comes in many flavors, and I think it's entirely unique to each person, depending on how they process their own education and experiences. I'm suspicious of generalizations. I've met many incredibly intelligent people who can't learn a goddamned thing because they own the surest block to learning: certainty in their own thought processes and its results.

[Kingpin]

It's been a long while since I took an IQ test, but back in high school it was required for AP classes and I tested at 133.

1) Found most classes very easy
2) Very quickly.
3) Rarely did study
4) Didn't have trouble learning any topic
5) I was a tutor for this reason
6) Most of it is done in my head.  Only for the more complex problems do i need to write it out
7) Fairly easy, but not motivated to learn a new language.

[Jackalope]

So, I personally think that IQ tests are suitable for testing one's ability to take IQ tests rather than measuring anything particularly useful predictive about intelligence.  That said, I have undergone IQ testing twice, once as a pre-teen, and most recently about 5 years ago.  Both scores were >120, I'm not particularly interested in revealing what they are.

1) How did you fare academically?  In high school, meh - I was extremely bored with the curriculum at the start, and pretty ambivalent about it in the end.  In college, quite well - I maintained a 3.9+ GPA until I dropped out for non-academic related reasons.
2) How fast did you learn a new concept?   Generally speaking, quite quickly though that really only applies to things I'm actually interested in learning.
3) Did you have to study much outside of school?  Almost never
4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?  I would say that my success (not difficulty) in learning a subject correlated to my interest more than anything.
5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc  I didn't find it much of an issue.  I have at times found it difficult to relate to people who's thinking is very black/white and not nuanced.  I don't find their thoughts generally very interesting.
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?  It varies.
7) How was your experience when learning a new language? Did it come to you easily?  I never attempted to learn a second language until well into adulthood.  I don't find it easy.

[Faith No More]

It's been many moons since I took my test, and I got a 140. I doubt I'd score that high now.

1) How did you fare academically?
Straight A's until I started having emotional problems and then started get B's,C's and the occasional D.

2) How fast did you learn a new concept?
Pretty fast.

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

4) What was difficult for you to learn and what wasn't?
Nothing was very difficult to learn, but I excelled in math and science.

5) How did it feel being around people that had it a bit more difficult to learn new concepts, remember things, solve problems etc
It could get frustrating at times, to be honest.  I felt like my education was being held back to teach to go at slower pace for other students.

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?
It depends on the problem.

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