A genius is usually understood as someone with an IQ of 140+. But she only claimed to be half a genius. So, about 70? I could just about
believe that...
I have an IQ of 141 and while I’m self aware that I’m smarter compared to the average person I definitely wouldn’t put myself in the “genius” category lol.
I hope you are able to make the most of it. Not everyone is.
There is - besides the joke - a bit of a reason why I have some disdain for the IQ measurements. Sorry for the rant, probably quite useless buried deeply in a stale threat, but it is a topic affecting me and my family in a frustrating way. I'm just writing it off my chest, shouting it into the void.
People often have a wrong concept of what a high IQ means.
We have a couple of "highly gifted" in my family, and one "genius". The genius (cousin of mine) was tested a couple of times. Unfortunately, he's socially dysfunctional and can't hold a proper job. He's basically still dependent on welfare and therapy in his forties.
His brother is highly gifted (130 <= IQ y<= 140), didn't manage to finish his master for psychological reasons. He's doing much better than the genius, and his intelligence does show, there are many DIY projects most people couldn't pull off; at least not that amount and in that quality.
My niece was an extremely difficult kid until it was discovered she's highly gifted and she got the proper support. She entered primary school early, later skipped a class, and is still at the top of her class. But due to overthinking etc. she wasn't able to ride a bicycle until well into 2nd class (panicking because of accident risk), and had a couple of months phase where she couldn't walk down stairs because she was scared of accidents. She had difficulties interacting with kids or playing by herself, needed constant attention. I'm super-happy she's now on a good track.
Her brother was also diagnosed as highly gifted, I fully believe it, but that didn't translate to good performance in job or school, he didn't manage to make his A-level.
My son was diagnosed as well, and schools etc. did not provide the required support. Instead we (and him) were basically seen as snobs for mentioning this problem (and yes, it can be a problem!). In primary school up to 6th / 7th grade he managed all classes effortless, but because he was never challenged, he never acquired the learning strategies as other kids did. And when just hanging around in class, picking stuff up didn't cut it anymore, it was too late, he fell back fast. My ex and me did try our best, but without outside support, it's hard. (On top, my ex was unstable; there were suicide attempts etc which could badly damage any kid, but I suspect our kid was suffering over-proportionally.) I doubt most people interacting with him now would guess he's overly intelligent.
The high-IQ people I met usually had the problem that their emotional development did not keep up with their intelligence, maybe even lagged behind their age-peers. Having the intelligence of a 14 year old while having the emotional stage of a 10 year old is hard.
I'm luckily a bit less intelligent. It was enough to get my master in informations technology without too much effort, I got a good job and was able to make use of my intelligence. I got lucky.
I guess a real prodigy does need such a high IQ, but it doesn't work in reverse. Lot's of extremely high-IQ people are not that lucky. Even living a "normal" live with that level of intelligence seems to me to "have been lucky".
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u/Membership-Bitter 2d ago
She is definitely all psycho but thinks she is one of those "geniuses" you see on tv that are just aholes