I’m just curious if there are highly gifted on here that do not have another diagnosis or suspected diagnosis? I’m curious becasue I am an adult (60 y.o) at the lower end of the highly gifted range (IQ about 145) and have always been able to accomplish pretty much what I have wanted to accomplish in life. However, starting a decade ago or so, I have had some people tell me (sometimes very insistently) that I almost certainly have ADHD. They cite my intensity, wide range of interests and maybe other things that I am forgetting and that they may simply have projected onto me. However, in this s ..read more

So I am a medical doctor finishing my residency in psychiatry in a small wealthy country in Europe. After 5 first years of residency that was honnestly traumatic-- I started off in the field passionated about mental health, psychology and neuroscience and I ended up being disgruntled but the reality or I saw In my daily practice. I guess I had an idealized view of psychiatry. Anyways; now finishing my residency I received so many offers it's not decent. Out of all these offers, I retained mostly two of them claiming to not be as a shit environment as I and most resident are used to: shit hou ..read more

I just realised why people think I'm rude. My Brain is going faster than theirs so I'm 10 steps ahead of them and have to wait until they catch up usually out loud to me often in the form of explaining it to me like we are working it out together when I'm already there. I had this counseling appointment today where I literally said something and then she asks me.rhe exact question that I just answered and it happens a lot with her.. I mean who likes repeating themselves! And then they think I don't understand them when I do. So much more clearly than they comprehend. I have to say clearly I u ..read more

I'm trying to find more info about 2e, particularly if it relates to people who have some combination of being 2, perhaps 3 standard deviations to the right, with verbal abilities being strongest, combined with CPTSD, dissociation or freeze/shutdown response. It doesn't need to be all of that but even some of those elements would be of interest. submitted by /u/MichaelEmouse [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Just a funny tidbit. I’m bad at chess, just lost my third game to my girlfriend. I don’t play often but when I do I generally lose. I’m a bit impatient which this game teaches me well. Anyone else horrible at activities that were “supposed” to be good at? submitted by /u/NotTooShahby [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Recently I have been interested in IQ tests and how they work. I was looking up how the scoring system works but when it was talking about measuring children’s IQ the answer was a bit convoluted and I wasn’t sure it was right . The answers were strange so I’m wondering, how does it testing for kids work and what is a high IQ for a kid/ teen? submitted by /u/Complete-Bet-4044 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Do any of you struggle with math? submitted by /u/YogurtclosetLucky598 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hello there great members of this sub, I came here to share some stuff about myself. I grew up sheltered and nerdy, that's the first thing I can say about myself, I was extremely gifted, always top of my class despite the fact that my mental health was greatly ignored by my parents, my parents who pushed me so hard it broke me later, I was always ostracized and bullied at school, sometimes at a daily basis, and I was blamed for it, during my first of high school my academic performance decreased so much that my parents lost hope in me partially, I transformed from being the smart boy who swal ..read more

EDIT - I’m aware Asperger’s is an outdated term. I’m using it specifically to refer to the stereotype most people use, not in its proper medical context This is a common misunderstanding that derives from multiple studies that specifically looked at Mensa sample groups to see what rates of mental disorders they had. This introduces a sampling bias as Mensa allows anyone with an >130 iq test in, and those tested generally are tested for developmental abnormalities or other psychiatric evaluations. Removing this sampling bias with a general population sample results in the correlations rever ..read more

I just want to get a possible idea of the IQ scores in this subreddit overall. Assume the standard deviation is 15 and mean is 100. By the way, I got 145. View Poll submitted by /u/anonz1337 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more