Seeming smart

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It seems like a lot of people think I'm smart. I don't think I'm that smart because I have an average IQ.

My IQ is above average but I've always struggled so hard under the surface with things like my memory, figuring out what the heck is going on socially, and I've always been happier just enjoying sensory impressions and movements (stims if you like) than having complex debates (which frankly overwhelm me) that I've never felt very smart.

Even the kids in school who failed tests would come out of them remembering what their answers had been. Me, I'd be able to answer written questions and often get good to very good grades, but it was automated, I didn't always understand what I was doing and quickly forgot the mechanism of solving problems if I didn't keep practising them. I often felt great shame because I was told I'm smart but under the surface I'm struggling so so hard to just cope with everyday tasks.

A long, long time ago, my IQ was very high. I have no idea what it is now. I find that if you talk in a formal way and/or use "big" (or uncommonly used) words, people tend to think you are "smart".

I used to take pride in being intelligent, now I tend to care less. It's often like a social game that would be titled "Who has the highest IQ?". It becomes a hurtful and meaningless charade of who knows the most factual information.

IQ is just a stupid way of deluding smart folks. Ever since 6th grade I've chosen for mine to remain a secret to me. You're obviously smart enough to confront all your problems head on, why worry?

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A lot of people think I'm very intelligent simply because computer programming just comes naturally to me. I can also come up with a dozen different ways to solve a problem and that makes people think I'm smart but personally, I don't think I'm that smart. Just different.

ever since i started posting on forums people say how smart i am, but i always have a lot of difficulty cogitating things that others my age have an aptitude for. i'm well spoken i guess, but it's like when it comes to any kind of computation, or abstract or philosophical thinking, i get all muddled.

I take random IQ tests on the internet and come away with various results, and yet I neither feel any smarter or dumber than before.

Usually, I can do really smart stuff quickly if I have the option to take my time, but if I feel rushed then I can seem dumb for a long time.

If you consider only two human attributes such as wealth and IQ, you might derive a saying like, "If you are so smart, why aren't you rich". The question implies that the only barrier to wealth is intelligence. If you consider that rich people like Thomas Edison and Bill Gates were able to garner wealth not so much trough innovation but by harnessing the power of lawyers, then we see that other attributes exist that may not have received full attention.

In addition to ruthlessness, there are many thousands of attributes that contribute to each person's uniqueness. A person that has an ability towards articulation may be taken as more intelligent just because he is more easily able to express what he thinks. A person who is slower to express his thoughts may be taken as a dolt even though he may be more intelligent that the first person.

IQ is an interesting measure because it is a way to estimate how valuable a person may be in the employment slave market. If you are a slave employer, you may want additional information such as how productive the person can be (which is not always correlated to IQ).

If we were to breakdown IQ into component attributes such as perception, the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes has often been presented to us as an example of exceptional perception but at a cost of emotional instability.

Here the fictional world may cross the real world. Those who perceive more (or perceive faster) may find that the processing of those perceptions produce anxieties and uncertainties to such an extent that they can seem inhibitory.

If you speak well people tend to think you're smart.