My IQ is 152 (I had to take an IQ test to qualify for a particular scholarship in high school).

There have only been two downsides:
1) I got straight A's and an extremely high SAT without having to work or study really at all in high school. So when I got to college and had to study for some of my classes, I didn't have the study skills of many of my peers. But I learned that fairly quickly.
2) I understand concepts faster than my peers, and I can synthesize information much faster than almost anyone I know. The only detriment that I've experienced is that it is sometimes hard to teach my kids and others how to do things, because I mentally just understood the concepts, so I don't always know how to teach them when they aren't understood immediately.

I have a happy marriage and kids, and several close friends. I don't think I'm socially awkward.

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Anonymous wrote:How much of the problems stem from parents and teachers neglecting the whole child? Like, the kid is so academically strong nothing else is seen as a problem?

LOL do not assume that high IQ= academically strong.

But as to your point, it is always a problem when the whole child is neglected for some aspect of the child, and that does happen in the case of exceptional talents. However, high IQ is highly correlated with anxiety. Not predictive, but there is a correlation. https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/recent-research-links-anxiety-with-higher-iq

High IQ does not equal success all the time, correct. Plus there are only 1% of the population over 140 so nothing to worry about there. Especially if IQ was taken under 12 years old. That’s when the test scores show higher.

And those kids on tv with supposed IQs off the chart and can do work way above their age? When they reach a certain age they are on equal footing with their peer group and aren’t so special anymore and they tend to be depressed with defeatist attitudes.

I’ll take the hardworking dedicated student who won’t give up with an average IQ any day.

I think this number is pretty accurate, but people need to recognize that 1% of the population is a lot of people. In a school with 1K kids, assuming an average distribution, that's 100 kids. I would guess that many commenters on this thread do need to manage the issues of high IQ children.

First, your math is off by a factor of 10. 1% of 1K is 10.

Second,
Your school almost certainly is far from average distribution. It's already clustered.

Third, if you go to 145 or 150, it's down to 0.1% and 001%

I don't believe a lot in "IQ", some I've seen what cognitive panels look like and I understand math, and being better at something doesnt mean "can't productively interact with someone less able", but this accounting applies for any measure of "outlierness".

Forget IQ. If your kid can't find "their people", you have deep challenges.

Anonymous wrote:The latter, because that’s what happens in my family.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:How much of the problems stem from parents and teachers neglecting the whole child? Like, the kid is so academically strong nothing else is seen as a problem?

LOL do not assume that high IQ= academically strong.

But as to your point, it is always a problem when the whole child is neglected for some aspect of the child, and that does happen in the case of exceptional talents. However, high IQ is highly correlated with anxiety. Not predictive, but there is a correlation. https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/recent-research-links-anxiety-with-higher-iq

High IQ does not equal success all the time, correct. Plus there are only 1% of the population over 140 so nothing to worry about there. Especially if IQ was taken under 12 years old. That’s when the test scores show higher.

And those kids on tv with supposed IQs off the chart and can do work way above their age? When they reach a certain age they are on equal footing with their peer group and aren’t so special anymore and they tend to be depressed with defeatist attitudes.

I’ll take the hardworking dedicated student who won’t give up with an average IQ any day.

I think this number is pretty accurate, but people need to recognize that 1% of the population is a lot of people. In a school with 1K kids, assuming an average distribution, that's 100 kids. I would guess that many commenters on this thread do need to manage the issues of high IQ children.

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Anonymous wrote:How much of the problems stem from parents and teachers neglecting the whole child? Like, the kid is so academically strong nothing else is seen as a problem?

LOL do not assume that high IQ= academically strong.

But as to your point, it is always a problem when the whole child is neglected for some aspect of the child, and that does happen in the case of exceptional talents. However, high IQ is highly correlated with anxiety. Not predictive, but there is a correlation. https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/recent-research-links-anxiety-with-higher-iq

High IQ does not equal success all the time, correct. Plus there are only 1% of the population over 140 so nothing to worry about there. Especially if IQ was taken under 12 years old. That’s when the test scores show higher.

And those kids on tv with supposed IQs off the chart and can do work way above their age? When they reach a certain age they are on equal footing with their peer group and aren’t so special anymore and they tend to be depressed with defeatist attitudes.

I’ll take the hardworking dedicated student who won’t give up with an average IQ any day.

I guess a lot of you are taking an internet IQ test because only 0.02% of people are in the IQ ranges you all claim.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. IQ testing was standard practice for applying to independent schools until a few years ago. Same for public gifted programs in major cities.

Thank you to the PP who wrote about contextualizing the bad and anxiety. Very helpful. Has anyone met anyone who was highly gifted and also happy go lucky?

I am the poster that said it wasn’t that high. My IQ is in the 160s, and taught myself to read at age 3.

I haven’t had any of the problems described in this thread. I’m also an empath, so that helps.

I do really hate group work, though. I usually just ended up doing all the work so they wouldn’t screw up the project.

That’s a cool story

Anonymous wrote:OP here. IQ testing was standard practice for applying to independent schools until a few years ago. Same for public gifted programs in major cities.

Thank you to the PP who wrote about contextualizing the bad and anxiety. Very helpful. Has anyone met anyone who was highly gifted and also happy go lucky?

I am the poster that said it wasn’t that high. My IQ is in the 160s, and taught myself to read at age 3.

I haven’t had any of the problems described in this thread. I’m also an empath, so that helps.

I do really hate group work, though. I usually just ended up doing all the work so they wouldn’t screw up the project.

This graph is always what comes to mind when people start asking this type of question.



As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs.

— Lisa Simpson. The Simpsons. Episode 257. January 7, 2001.

Full disclosure: this was true for me when I was younger, but as I get older, the graph no longer resonates.

Schizoids

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Anonymous wrote:Research suggests more IQ is, on average, better in terms of long term career success and achievement. It’s not easy being super rare but the profoundly gifted contribute a lot to humankind.

Super rare? Nobody even takes IQ tests except average people straining for evidence that they’re special

Not true at all. They are a standard part of neuropsych testing – which is far more common now than it was when I was a kid. I was given an iq test to start kindergarten early, and that was 1977.

+1. That is how I know my own, and my kids' I.Qs. I'm three standard deviations above normal. It's fine. I see and perceive things that no one else does but I understand that. My kids have done well in school and careers.

You are describing schizophrenia.

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Anonymous wrote:To be honest, I feel like only dumb people are into IQ tests.

People who are actually smart do not take them because they don’t take them seriously.

What? You realize there are all sorts of circumstances under which people are given IQ tests. I know what my IQ is (142) because I was given an IQ test as a teenager when hospitalized for intractable depression. It's you who are "dumb" lol, into IQ tests or not.

I guess your test didn't have a reading comprehension section.

You don't have "your" IQ. It's not like height. You got one score on one test, once.

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Anonymous wrote:Or would you worry that the high intelligence will almost surely come with anxiety or some other struggle? And that your child won’t be well-served in school?

Probably the latter in that they'd likely be on the spectrum, have anxiety or some other such. But, it doesn't matter either way, you get the child you get not the one you wish you got and you'll love and support them regardless.

Why on earth would you assume that someone with that high of an IQ would be "on the spectrum"?

NP. Because they likely are. You clearly don’t know many brilliant people. They are great but difficult.

Super inaccurate, lol. Plenty of "brilliant people" out there who aren't on the spectrum. Most of them. Clearly you aren't one of them -- on the spectrum or not.

Anonymous wrote:To be honest, I feel like only dumb people are into IQ tests.

People who are actually smart do not take them because they don’t take them seriously.

What? You realize there are all sorts of circumstances under which people are given IQ tests. I know what my IQ is (142) because I was given an IQ test as a teenager when hospitalized for intractable depression. It's you who are "dumb" lol, into IQ tests or not.

To be honest, I feel like only dumb people are into IQ tests.

People who are actually smart do not take them because they don’t take them seriously.