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A high IQ can be a brutal burden to bear

Hello Everyone,

I am assuming there may be some high IQs (I am a former member of MinD, or MENSA in Germany) in the Nexus? What have been the challenges you have faced in the world due to this? Has your IQ sometimes been a heavy burden to bear?

Any thoughts on this? Experiences to share?

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on April 19, 2010 at 10:52pm

It gets tough when the mensa fundamentalists with brains the size of a planet get upset when you laugh at them.

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Permalink Reply by Howard S. Dunn on April 19, 2010 at 11:43pm

I remember a single frame cartoon with a janitor pointing and laughing at a new graduate in a cap and gown looking for the bathroom. The janitor says: You got a degree in philosophy too!

Congrats on the doctorate Professor Grogan!

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Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on April 20, 2010 at 2:08pm

I knew someone in Mensa. His girlfriend said that Mensa was for suckers, because they trick people into thinking they're geniuses, and get people to fork over money for their own self-flattery. I looked through their magazine. I'm not a genius, and I didn't find it above my intelligence level.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on April 20, 2010 at 5:59pm

Well, most organizations do that, if you get right down to it.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly M on December 31, 2010 at 10:29am

There is a great episode of King of the Hill about this very thing. Peggy is led to believe she is a genius.....It's pretty funny....I found a clip :) Funny stuff!!

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Permalink Reply by Phil Smith on October 29, 2011 at 3:49am

I was never that bright but I was invited to join Densa.

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Permalink Reply by Johnsky on April 19, 2010 at 11:02pm

The only issue I have is that when I want to get to sleep, my mind refuses to stop contemplating possible inventions / physics applications.

Of course, by that point I'm too tired to think clearly about them... but that doesn't stop my mind from trying.

This is more of an active mind problem than an IQ problem.

That, and back when I was in school, people knowing you had a high IQ tended to cause them to continuously mentally challenge you. It became relentless at times.

Idiots sometimes mistake a high IQ with meaning you're supposed to have all the answers.
I have a heightened ability to deduce and create, I'm not a damned psychic. If I haven't studied it, I don't have the answers on it, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on April 19, 2010 at 11:41pm

If they really are idiots, just make up plausible sounding explanations. Or implausible, just to see if they believe you. Might as well amuse yourself.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Vogt on May 1, 2010 at 7:36pm

The danger down that path is avoiding the temptation to suggest something potentially lethal to the more obnoxious. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on May 1, 2010 at 9:24pm

Or accidentally spreading falsehoods. We have enough trouble with the intentional spreading of falsehoods, thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Dan DuPree on September 2, 2010 at 1:20pm

I have the same type of sleeping issue. My brain will sometimes get locked into a flow of thought word construct loop that won't let me sleep. The study of IQ and genius is getting very interesting. Researchers are recognizing the different types of genius. My intelligence is primarily verbal. My sisters tell me I could read when I was two. I read the Iliad and the Odessey before 1st grade and understood and enjoyed it. I read the Brothers Kamarov in the 4th grade and understood and hated it. The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy also in the 4th grade and got hooked on SciFi and Fantasy.

One of the strangest examples I ever get of my IQ is the occasional short period when I can do lightning calculation. My Sr. year in high school I was in an advanced Algerbra class that was selected to take the state high school accreditaion test. It was severa pages of long division, multiplication, fractions and some algebra. I looked at the first question and wrote the answer down. I did it long hand and it was correct. I went through the test in five minutes and wrote the answers down. The teacher said she was dissapointed that I didn't at least try. She was flabbergasted when the results came back and I had made the best grade in the state, only missing one where I transposed two numbers.