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ElliousKedward · 11-03-2009, 05:37 AM

I am 18 years old. At 16, my IQ was recorded as 145.
I found this post in a Google search on common problems people with high IQs have. I will in-brief describe my thoughts:
I want to relate with problems I am having. I wanted to see if they are relevant to my IQ, or if they are independent and I feel I will never know. While I am very much able to hold a logical grip on what I perceive as real, I suffer from psychotic symptoms. I have been diagnosed with a few mental illnesses, but they can all be attributed to the fact that I find it hard to fit into society, even at the fun age of 18. I am depressed most of the time, partly due to the fact that most gifted people fail to overcome the problem of negatively viewing those who fail to realize certain concepts, whether these concepts be socially, academically, or ethically. I am one who struggles with this. I have moved passed the first stage; accepting that I cannot change people to agree with my opinions, no matter how justifiable they seem. However, it still causes a great deal of distress to be surrounded by people who are entirely uninterested in issues and concepts that I find very pressing, almost necessary to form an adequate society. What this boils down to is that while I accept people for who they are, their incompetence is distressing not only in my daily routine, but in its very essence; simply the very thought of mental isolation. This combination of stress and dysfunction has led to declining academia, depression, very specific and unmanageable social problems, problems with the law, and a general lack of success in comparison to the potential I know I have. The compensation for these problems has been even more troublesome and has included social isolation and heavy drug use. While things have begun to improve (specifically the latter two) I still feel as if I am ultimately on a path to failure in a culture that serves the most passive thinkers.

My conclusion is that without the proper environment to learn in, and the proper teachers that I can relate to, school is quite ineffective in teaching anything I need at the moment. I would love to learn AP Chemistry and devote my time to intensive studies, but with a hesitation, with a certain incompatibility, I lose it immediately. I lose interest, I lose motivation, and ultimately I lose hope, which all only pushes me farther back. I'm 18 though.

11-03-2009, 05:37 AM	#192 (permalink)
ElliousKedward Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	Potential blocker. I am 18 years old. At 16, my IQ was recorded as 145. I found this post in a Google search on common problems people with high IQs have. I will in-brief describe my thoughts: I want to relate with problems I am having. I wanted to see if they are relevant to my IQ, or if they are independent and I feel I will never know. While I am very much able to hold a logical grip on what I perceive as real, I suffer from psychotic symptoms. I have been diagnosed with a few mental illnesses, but they can all be attributed to the fact that I find it hard to fit into society, even at the fun age of 18. I am depressed most of the time, partly due to the fact that most gifted people fail to overcome the problem of negatively viewing those who fail to realize certain concepts, whether these concepts be socially, academically, or ethically. I am one who struggles with this. I have moved passed the first stage; accepting that I cannot change people to agree with my opinions, no matter how justifiable they seem. However, it still causes a great deal of distress to be surrounded by people who are entirely uninterested in issues and concepts that I find very pressing, almost necessary to form an adequate society. What this boils down to is that while I accept people for who they are, their incompetence is distressing not only in my daily routine, but in its very essence; simply the very thought of mental isolation. This combination of stress and dysfunction has led to declining academia, depression, very specific and unmanageable social problems, problems with the law, and a general lack of success in comparison to the potential I know I have. The compensation for these problems has been even more troublesome and has included social isolation and heavy drug use. While things have begun to improve (specifically the latter two) I still feel as if I am ultimately on a path to failure in a culture that serves the most passive thinkers. My conclusion is that without the proper environment to learn in, and the proper teachers that I can relate to, school is quite ineffective in teaching anything I need at the moment. I would love to learn AP Chemistry and devote my time to intensive studies, but with a hesitation, with a certain incompatibility, I lose it immediately. I lose interest, I lose motivation, and ultimately I lose hope, which all only pushes me farther back. I'm 18 though.