/dep/ - Depression★

>how to focus, how to apply effort and how to relate to others

you can't figure this out with a high iq? it's more likely you're just not that smart but you were convinced otherwise by the presumptuous adults around you and then you burned out trying to live up to their unrealistic expectations. what happens if you believe you're exceptional but still fail at life? then the only way to resolve the cognitive dissonance is to believe an even bigger cope, i'm simply TOO intelligent and that's why i fail!

>You don't have to have taken an IQ test to post here
Lol. Lmao even.

>>298255
Just because you can phrase it as "figuring it out" doesn't mean it's a matter of IQ. Believe it or not there's more than one dimension of cognative variation. Take a look at the article I linked if you're interested in why this happens.

>>298256
External validation would be something like skipping grades in school.

>>298254
so those who are isolated are 200 IQ and above?

>>298253 (OP)
> You don't have to have taken an IQ test to post here
> multiple standard deviations

You won't find many here, poor health and bad life usually stem from below average people in ways measurable.

This thread was supposed to be a mirror of the low IQ thread, but maybe it was a mistake. Whoever tells their story will just be attacked for percieved egotism.

>>298278
It explicitly says this arises at 160. Also, children's IQs are adjusted for age based on average development speed, adults who went through this might now be as low as 130 or 140. Once you leave the giant pool of children it depends on your environment of course.

>>298281
I've encountered some very talented and thoughtful wizards who I could believe fit here. A highly intelligent person can be far below average in other ways. Avolition is a particularly common path to loserhood for us and is my personal most lethal flaw.

>La skinny sad NEETY e-succubus nerd with scragly hair being alone and studying
>OMG SHE JUST LIKE ME says the confused young termianlly online male
Going to need a full Kenshiro thread detox, stat.

>Having a high IQ without being nurtured properly as a child can cause you to miss out
Yeah it's your parents' fault that you're not the genius you were destined to be
>how to apply effort and how to relate to others, deficiencies which echo through the rest of our lives
Go learn those things now. You're high IQ right? Should be easy for you to learn new things.

>neurodivergence
Special snowflake boy things being bigbrained makes him a whole other species from the plebian normbrains.

>You don't have to have taken an IQ test to post here
"IQ" is just as much of an out for self-masturbation as the Myers Briggs personality test. "I wonder what genre of special I am? I hope I get the rare one!" If you care about your IQ score, then you've already failed the #1 intelligence test. It's like giving a shit about school grades when the methodology you need to show your work with keeps changing every 2 years. The type of smart you learned to be yesterday isn't the type of smart we need today. Application rejected! It's not a measure of intelligence, but rather how capable you are of following instructions like a good little worker. If you want a true test of intelligence, give yourself a seemingly impossible task and then find out how to make it possible. Invent something new, put it through trials, attack your own creation from every angle and make it sound. Use your naturally gifted brain to solve problems that you yourself are interested in finding the answers to. Show that there's some true endurance to your brain power beyond just being able to solve a few math equations. And don't blame your inability to so on brainfog or your parents or something, that's pathetic.

>Post your but it's best if you've had some external validation beyond self-identity or being correct about stuff.
The only thing "High IQ" people are ever correct about is that they should stay the fuck off of imagebaords and go read Kant of Schopenhaeurer or whoever the fuck.

>Don't state your IQ unless asked.
Mine is ⑨
>Don't accuse others of not belonging here.
"You don't belong here" isn't an accusation, it's fact
>No politics or demographics talk.
IQ standard deviations are a demographical order themselves you fumbduck. What's the point of comparing YOUR smartness level to others if we can't even talk about WHY those others may be different. For someone so sure of IQ tests - mostly just "find the pattern" puzzles - you're suspiciously adverse to discussing the correlated patterns between IQ and the person who has it. Judging from you pidgid English, I say you are a third worlder, which is the icing on this mud cake because it means the "official" IQ test you took was probably a scam.

i understand why "lack of motivation" is such a common cope. it's an easy way to protect your self-esteem by stopping yourself from even attempting anything and failing. it's not that i can't do the thing because i'm ignorant or unskilled or lack the intelligence, no, it's simply an invisible magical emotional problem that prevents me from putting in any effort, possibly caused by some vague "trauma" from my childhood (i can recall several moments where i wasn't the center of my parent's attention, that's must have been it!)

when you have an identity or image of yourself as "smart" and then all these problems come along that you can't deal with it, then you have to adjust your perception of yourself. the alternative is to simply suffer from "avolition" whenever something difficult comes up and phew, you're saved from having to lower your estimation of yourself.

Should have known better than to admit to one desirable trait. I tried to write the OP in a way that doesn't let egos to get involved, but clearly I failed to consider the egos of a hundred insecure morons who will invent an entire psychology for you to protect their worldviews. I miss the days when I thought internet strawmanning was just a joke that everyone was in on. You people belong on twitter for this behaviour.

It's sad but this thread will never achieve it's purpose as a gathering place and should be locked since anyone who belongs here will be attacked for expressing themselves. It was worth a try. Much love to the wizzies who would have made this a cool thread in a better timeline, goodbye.

>>298298
some ideas for your next thread, wizzie
>DAE have an extremely large penis that is making life and dating difficult?
>High Income cry thread
>Tall ppl problems :(

>>298298
Cya
It does sting a little, knowing how much my academic failures and subpar intelligence fucked my life up and in this vain I painfully understand but obviously don't condone these outbursts.
Perhaps trying for a thread along the lines of "messed up my life despite good advantages" would work.
Then again, you will see this bickering seething just beneath the surface in every thread because most everyone here is sick and/or miserable.
>Have a nice day.

>>298298
high iq alone is an advantage, it carries no negative value
it does not guarantee a good life though, and many setbacks can offset one's high iq
you made a humblebrag thread about high iq, and you expect people to relate to bad parenting and living in a world built for normies
you should instead make a thread about bad parenting and normie favoritism, and MAYBE mention how they wasted the potential of your high iq, but the high iq should not be the main point of the thread

>>298298
Our lambasting must have gotten through to you because you actually typed with fair grammar this time around. But still it remains that using your "IQ test score" as an identity instead of what you have achieved with that heightened intelligence of yours is quite pathetic. Don't ask for "High IQ wizards" to discuss their huge throbbing brains on on /dep/. Instead ask for any users to share what they did with the intelligence they have, what problems they've solved, and what they did to make themselves feel a little smarter than they initially thought themselves to be. Bask in the product of intelligence, not the title of it (especially if that title is awarded by some flawed institution).

I just did another IQ test and because I remembered some of the answers, I am now 148 IQ. As a being of superior intellect, and penis size, and income, and height, you should listen to my advice.

>>298315
You're a cool guy for giving kind words despite the sting. Sorry it hurt, I can understand why. I had originally hoped a side effect of this thread would be you guys from the low IQ thread coming to understand people like me more, like how your thread let me understand people like you more, and maybe forming some camaraderie between us. Pic related was going to be the OP image, but I thought it wasn't worth making the catalog confusing for the sake of a joke. You have a nice day too. Abandoning the thread for real now, just thought you deserved a reply.

I was a fat ugly kid, but also intelligent. I would often come up with solutions to problems before anyone else did, but people wouldn't accept those solutions, I guess because it would be a blight on their pride to be outsmarted by a fat ugly kid. They would instead first try a few of their own solutions, before coming up with what I said in the first place. So I think I unconsciously developed a manner of speaking where I don't say the answer outright, but rather I say some incorrect, seemingly stupid shit, that guides the person I'm talking with to the answer. That way we reach the correct conclusion, while preserving the ego of my interlocutor. I am no longer a fat ugly kid, but my manner of speech remains.

Do you wizards relate to this? Do you also let people figure out solutions themselves, even though you already know the answers?

I guess it's also a manipulation technique - people are more likely to believe and do what they came up with themselves, rather than accept an external idea.

>>298362
Rather than being about your appearence, could it have just been that they didn't want to accept an answer that they didn't understand yet? I share a similar mousishness around correcting people, but while being corrected is often taken as a personal insult, I'm not sure about independently getting something right.
I'm interested to hear other forms of manupulation people here have ended up with. Being both weak and capable I would guess it's quite a manipulative group.

The worst part of having an above average IQ is being able to see your potential and (for many reasons) not being able to utilize it. Eg: grow up poor, abused, or sickly, and it will be hard to apply your intelligence. Intelligence is useful but a lot still has to go right for it to be an asset.

I am an addict with a home of my own. I am a leucotomy patient and former profound genius and a fixed brain for IQ. I feel kind dreadful and anxious with them 'fixing' me with the pick… I have next to nothing drug wise and predator wise now and don't want to be clean. I got it all in spite of what I did and now I fail math from attacks from him. But they haul me to the supreme court alot nowadays so that makes sense. I almost tried to have a good time again after last time again the other day with ordering drugs but I didn't. I'm on the fence about booze now too. I want to but I want to live too and they aren't going to let me on drugs. I'm torn on twenty-five pin or possible reward now honestly. They have me pinned for clear cut for death… used to have quite the addiction to the things, for good reason, though I have a high IQ I can't handle too many of them or something and have few, had to have alcoholism surgery once because I couldn't or wouldn't lay off the bottle and the things. They did it right in rehab to my brain and everything so I'm not as bright anymore and don't abuse benzos and alcohol bad. I miss him and my sherm and they have me scheduled to die as well, woke up to them improving my IQ or whatever for it all and thought I was losing my life twice this week already. The holocaust is real out here due to war and peace is only possible via sharing and wisdom. I need twelve dollars worth of alcohol and the allegiance of the president to never betray me again. I can't work but life is easy. I used to have 30million USD as well BUT I get punishments that can borderline on psycho or overburdening, I had to have a surgery without anesthetic once and everything. I don't want to die of the system like a fool but they almost insist. I actually want to cry…