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[quote=Anonymous]I don't have a lot of confidence that higher IQs are all that impactful. Both my husband and I have substantially higher IQs than you're talking about, and we're boring people who have used our brains for fairly lucrative work but aren't doing anything world-shattering. (I'll point out that the woman with the highest measured IQ never graduated from college and writes a newspaper column, rather than doing cancer research or coming up with a way to harness fusion energy.) IQ doesn't cover the spectrum of human talents. I am significantly quicker to learn coding or differential equations than my peers, but I'm no wiser or more insightful.

I am also autistic and my husband has ADHD. We both developed elaborate masking and executive function coping techniques, and I think high intelligence helped with that.

My two cents, for what they're worth, is that intelligence makes problem-solving easier. Autism and depression make for a lot of problems. So intelligence is a way to mitigate some of the difficulties of the rest of my brain chemistry. For example, my employer is happy to let me work from home and hyperfocus on one topic because I'm a talented mathematician. It's a lot harder to get accommodations if your job is in a service industry.

The number one thing I try to emphasize with my kids is that learning to work is critical. Smart kids can be used to everything coming without effort. There will eventually be a time when you can't just be smart at something and have it fall into place. That can be particularly painful for those of us with a tendency to perfectionism, anxiety, depression, etc. So lots of experience doing things that don't come naturally is helpful in preventing perfectionist paralysis.[/quote]

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