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M.E. in Systems Engineer, Pennsylvania State University Updated 4y
Is a high IQ sometimes a handicap?
I have IQ in 140’s. The answer is a definite yes.
Studies show the higher your IQ, the higher risks for mental illness, anxiety, and severe depression. Because you can objectively see yourself. Like the saying goes, “you require an immense amount of knowledge just to be able to see your own depth of ignorance.” This is probably going to be a long and involved answer, so please stick with me.
Your ego is a mask, a story that you tell yourself. But those with high IQ are more easily able to see through the mask, and without some sort of spirituality, there’s nothing underneath. When you see your ego is false, it’s like a mirror looking into a mirror. But the up side is that you can see how your subconscious is programmed and take control of the 95% subconscious actions that we all have.
But because you see right through your ego…you also see straight through everyone else’s! If you’re not careful to agree with the subconscious lies everyone tells themselves, you WILL DEEPLY offend everyone. No one wants to hear that their problems today are the result of their actions and words yesterday, even if it’s as clear as day. They just want to be told they’re unlucky and have no control. You must realize what others want to believe is their life, and it’s not up to you to tell them the truth if they don’t want to see it.
If your IQ is too high for those surrounding you, you WILL be seen as insane, and highly ignorant. Because others don’t understand you, they assume you must be insane. They assume since you tell them stuff against their beliefs that you’re the one who’s ignorant. And they WILL HATE THE HELL OUT OF YOU! Intelligence must be hidden as much as possible for the sanity of the person who holds it. If you’re not careful, you’ll start to believe that you may just be insane and that will lead to many self destructive behaviors and thoughts. You must act dumb in many situations. (Anyone intelligent will see that I am putting a lot of emphasis on this, and usually our actions are the result of strong emotions, therefore I must have been extremely hurt recently or traumatized in the past by this lesson)
You rarely conform to social norms because they’re just stupid and a waste of time. This gets back into the ego I talked about. Almost 95% of our actions every single day are subconscious and random, depend on how society programmed our subconscious to respond to stimuli, and our ego justifies them after we do them in an effort to maintain consistent story. “I must have done that because I felt..” because few understand this, they think their programmed responses are free will, that they’re making the choice, even though science shows they react before they even have a mental thought. The thought and justification come after, sometimes by several seconds. The justification depends on what they’ve been programmed to believe to conform with their personal narrative. Society is brainwashed into thinking they need all these things to be happy, must be and act certain ways, even if they’re self-destructive. So the higher the IQ, the less you’re usually accepted by society.
The benefits are an insane ability to learn and master anything and pattern recognition. Pattern recognition is our superpower, and it leads us to see that much of society are not conscious. They don’t see that their lives are a reflection of their daily habits. Like going to the gym. They think becoming wealthy is luck, and has nothing to do with their daily learning and work. That’s like thinking someone going to the gym for two years just happened to luck out when they lost 50lbs on the way….They cannot see the correlation between using their turn signals and risks of accidents, or that how they react to others actually affects their lives. They live largely asleep. But when you see those patterns, that the entire universe revolves around magnificent and brilliant patterns, even human psychology, you generally have an extremely easy time manipulating those patterns to gain what you want or to help others. Wealth is easy.
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I’ve had my IQ professionally tested several times
Originally Answered: What does it feel like to have an IQ of 175?
From a blog post I wrote back in 2010:
Most people seem to think that possessing exceptional cognitive talent would be “cool”, “a great laugh” etc. Yet many of those same people get frustrated or irritated when presented with such a person, wondering why they are that way, and why there are circumstances under which he or she doesn’t behave “normally”. In other words, it would be “cool” to have those qualities of mind as long as they can ace their exams or whatever. But what seems to be universally missed is that having a mind like that is not something that can be turned on and off at will.
There are other ramifications, which are bound sooner or later to impact on various areas of that person’s life.
I’m going to take you through an imaginary journey, just to provide a little personal perspective. Or, if you like, this is WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE ME!
Imagine you are an average person, who borrows a gadget for a couple of weeks that will temporarily boost your IQ to stratospheric levels.
Suddenly, you find that nearly all the people you meet aren’t interested in the things that you’re now interested in, because they don’t understand them. On the other hand, you now feel bored and frustrated with the seemingly superficial stuff that your friends are into. Popular culture now looks rather odd to you. You may find you lose interest in the “expected” bodily pleasures like alcohol and sex. I bet you’re already running through in your mind what your friends are likely to think of that.
Thrill-seeking (in the usual sense of high-speed rides etc.) may seem like an extreme stimuli overkill. However, thrill-seeking in the sense of spending an invigorating afternoon studying something you were always curious about, or perhaps creating in the artistic sense, puts you on a personal high that lasts for hours, if not days.
You may find you have become sensitive to things that you never gave a second thought about before. Certain clothes are irritating – the labels are annoying, the collar is too tight, or the fabric itches against your skin, the garment whose sleeve got accidentally wet must be changed immediately, or it will simply continue to annoy until it dries.
You may find you are extraordinarily sensitive to the temperature and texture of foods, not just their tastes. Additives may be a problem. You watch your friends scoffing junk food and wonder what the appeal is of eating stuff that just makes you feel unsettled or ill.
Certain noises are now unbearable (loud amplified music for instance).
Well, let’s consider the reason for these sensitivities. You didn’t really think for a moment that a mind sensitive enough to spot logic patterns etc. that 99.9????% of the population can’t perceive wasn’t going to be that sensitive to other things, did you?
You may find your emotions become so sensitive you can no longer watch much of what’s on TV, and you are deeply affected by what people say.
Then there’s the burning intellectual insatiety – how do you cope with sleepless nights because your mind is driven to ponder and solve things that other people don’t even care about?
How would you cope with being a person stuck in a routine job, when you feel driven to constantly learn and grow? And then of course there’s the matter of careers and qualifications – the thought of studying the same university textbook for the entire semester is abhorrent to you (you could probably polish off such a publication in a matter of days), and your interests move on too fast for you to complete any official course of study, never mind stick it out long enough to forge a career. (Ever wonder why the very brightest people aren’t rich?)
In the absence of the company of university professors or other people who might understand your deepest ponderings, your only recourse for real discussions is to join one or more of the various high IQ societies. Yes, some people think it’s sad, but where else are you likely to go? The education system isn’t geared up for you, as it works towards harmonization and systematization, rather than being interested in your tailor-made education. The result tends to be a self-educated, but officially unqualified, individual. Most career paths aren’t geared up for you, being tied as they are to expectations of certain durations of “experience” before one is usually offered promotion. The result tends to be the person who is regarded as a butterfly.
So your interests move on as your extraordinary mind starts compelling you to reach for the next level of self-growth, and you drop out of that degree or that career that for you personally has served its purpose. Again.
And perhaps I should mention the social pressure, if word should get around that you are not the average bunny. Any mistake you make suddenly brings your entire BEING into question.
People develop the idea that you’re “stuck up” or “up yourself” even if you’re not. The fact that you are, for example, teaching yourself another language doesn’t bring commendations from others for being willing to improve, it becomes yet more “proof” that you’re just out to polish your medals.
Then there are the people who just want to bring you down, as described so eloquently by a comment on another site: “Yes, he’s very clever, but perhaps TOO clever for his own good, because HE’S ALSO SILLY! At least we the normal (barely sentient, low to mid IQ people) aren’t silly! We’re shrewd and streetwise, and those “intelligent” folks could never acquire our simple-yet-robust both-feet-on-the-ground-thinking (as-seen-on-Jerry-Springer) style.” Brilliant!
Despite all this, I wouldn’t trade my place out here on the far right-hand tail of the distribution curve. Not because I have had to learn to deal with the way I am, but because I have learned to deal with the way other people are about it, and all the overt and covert ways in which that is manifested.
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