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SweetSoulMusic · 03-12-2009, 07:57 AM

I find it fascinating that normal people want to be a genius and geniuses want to be normal. I've tested between 130-155. However, it is important to remember the man who created the IQ measuring system for France didn't think they were that accurate.

The higher the IQ the more social problems you may find. This tends to be the "gifted" individuals. Only 2% of the population is considered to be high intelligence, and out of those... 40% of gifted people are high school drop outs and 5% even go to college. The smarter the individual the more problems it creates in the normal world.

As far as physiologically, the brain has a certain threshold of new information it must take in to keep from damage being done. New information is how it keeps working. The higher the intelligence, the higher the need to learn new information. There is WAY more of everything in a gifted person, and the brain is literally in warp drive 24/7.

Speaking from personal experience... It's incredibly complicated having a "high IQ". Relationships, dating, work, school, hobbies, etc are all experienced in completely different ways. With a high IQ comes abnormally high levels of tremendous emotional depth and sensitivity.

If the high intelligence is not properly understood at a very young age... They grow up to in a strange sense become a "tortured genius".

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SweetSoulMusic Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2	Re: How do people with high IQ think? I find it fascinating that normal people want to be a genius and geniuses want to be normal. I've tested between 130-155. However, it is important to remember the man who created the IQ measuring system for France didn't think they were that accurate. The higher the IQ the more social problems you may find. This tends to be the "gifted" individuals. Only 2% of the population is considered to be high intelligence, and out of those... 40% of gifted people are high school drop outs and 5% even go to college. The smarter the individual the more problems it creates in the normal world. As far as physiologically, the brain has a certain threshold of new information it must take in to keep from damage being done. New information is how it keeps working. The higher the intelligence, the higher the need to learn new information. There is WAY more of everything in a gifted person, and the brain is literally in warp drive 24/7. Speaking from personal experience... It's incredibly complicated having a "high IQ". Relationships, dating, work, school, hobbies, etc are all experienced in completely different ways. With a high IQ comes abnormally high levels of tremendous emotional depth and sensitivity. If the high intelligence is not properly understood at a very young age... They grow up to in a strange sense become a "tortured genius".