Are you really smart? Are you really dumb? Are you average? How did you come to your conclusion?
Are you really smart? Are you really dumb? Are you average? How did you come to your conclusion?
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Gifted 2E kid who could "do so much with her life if only she tried"
I can do tests like you wouldn't believe, but outside of that context, I'm about as average as it gets!
I was tested as a kid with a 140 IQ but did my best to get that down to average levels with pot as a teenager. Every report card "... has a lot of potential if they applied themself."
Sadly, I didn't cure cancer. I got really into cooking and then computers, slowly realizing that while I might be smart on those tests, I am not really emotionally intelligent or particularly good at getting my crap together to make things happen.
Life kind of carried me along. I did lots of cool stuff but made major life decisions on a whim.
Everything changed when I met my wife (we weren't married before I met her, that happened later) and combined my abilities with hers. I finally feel like I have a place in the world and know what I'm going to be doing a week, month, or year from now with some certainty. Feels good.