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I feel like I'm smart, but then I compare myself to other people and see they're more successful in areas I struggle. I feel like my brain short circuits under stress. I'm my own worst enemy in that regard.
High Intelligence, could most likely become a Mensa member. Incredible emotionally crippled by being bullied, early verbal/speech issues, been in a lots of fights, had motivation issues through university. Doing quite fine now career-wise after changing to IT and saw immediate appreciation for my faculties, but still a emotional mess, though I have a tolerant girlfriend.
Technically I have a high IQ, but that is just a number. Besides that I consider myself decently if not quite smart. I recognize that I can come up with creative solutions to problems, but most importantly people come to me to ask for help for certain problems, which feels great and I think is a measure of how someone is "smart". I lean less from books and more from association and observation. I also generaly reach high in what I do, but that is more thanks to determination and ambition than pure skills. Of course I also lack in many other things, staying around and understanding people is difficult and making friends is incredibily challenging
I'd say I'm above average but not a genius, IQ professionally tested at 117.
I have decent logic skills, spatial awareness, but I really think I lack social skills, I have a very hard time picking up social cues and that kind of stuff. That's something an IQ test can't measure and it's my weakest spot.
The only think if Knowles is that if i'm smart im a failure, if im average im a falure and if im dumb im almost decent but still a failure, i dunno on this point of my life i see myself nothing as a failure and i just want to kms at this point
These threads are always midwits with good test scores lamenting they ended up mediocre. Coping they ended up just as an unbiased observer would expect.