Making use of a high IQ

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Since this thread has been resurrected, I've had a bit of a look through it again. This post stood out. I have a high IQ score, but I don't exactly relate to this description of someone with high intelligence. I.e., I don't compile a well stocked knowledge, because I forget most of what I learn, shortly after learning it. It is far from impossible for me to be bored. I do not know what to think about, a lot of the time, despite my capacity to think. I have curiosity, but that doesn't generally lead to be studying the thing I am curious about until I have a solid knowledge of it.

So it still seems to me that all my brain is really good for is arranging coloured blocks in front of someone with a stopwatch.

I've actually just started learning Python, for fun. I already have the tools I need to do questionnaire development. What I mean by development is developing the questions, not developing the actual physical product with programming etc. There doesn't seem to be a job that is primarily focused on survey design and similar tasks - they tend to be "all encompassing" jobs that still require good social skills and a broad range of talents.

As far as I know, I don't have ADD, and definitely not ADHD.

Last edited by yellowtamarin on 30 Aug 2012, 6:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Do you really want to put your high IQ to good use do you want to do a uni course (at age 32) and be burdened with a mortgage style debt than realise 5 years down the line what a waste of time it was , no offense I've seen people who have been their done that (usually found in teaching)

Have you considered bumming through life like the rest of us.

You have a pet snake what more could you want

Yes, I do want to put it to good use. It is one of the major frustrations in my life. I hate wasting my brain. I don't care about HECS debt etc as long as I'm doing something I am passionate about and good at.

My four years at uni weren't a waste for me, even though I'm still not working in the field, and I've forgotten a lot of what I learned. It's not enough though, it was a waste to society for me to get the education and do nothing with it.

Well I'm just glad I'm not you

I have a high IQ, but a very low "social IQ," which made finding my career almost impossible. Every application had a mandatory reference policy involving at least six people I knew for over five years (they had to be of mixed types: professional, personal, education). Are you freaking kidding me?! I barely know three people enough to consider them reference worthy, let alone six. I was also given a personality test to basically see how social I was...

The only thing that landed me the position was knowing multiple pertinent foreign languages.

I wish applications relied more on intelligence than social connections (at least in the way of jobs that don't require much interaction with others).

I know I know, first world problems! But while there's a forum created for talking about this kind of stuff, I'm going to try to utilise it

Okay so it looks like you knew what to do with your high IQ. How did you determine how your scores in subtests translated to skills in the workforce? Or have you just always known what you are good at?

As for the job app stuff, yeah I have missed out on jobs just because I'm too introverted. And too honest, of course, because I know how to fake a desirable score on the NEO but I can't bring myself to do it.

I don't think I consciously knew what to do with it, it just fell into place. I never intended to learn languages; they seemed to come to me (as weird as that sounds). I never paid mind to what I was good at, but based on what teachers and other peers had to say, I guess I could say I "knew" (though not on a conscious level) what I was proficient at. I decided to select a career path based on things I already knew and things I wanted to know more about. That is about as simple and clear as I can make it.

I wasn't having a go at you. I tease.

I didn't have time to read through all the comments here, but I find this post interesting.

Still I want to share some of my thoughts with you.

I just recently found out that I am aspie. And that set me off quite a bit. I guess many with higher IQ have somewhat similar problems.
Because we cope quite well by finding workarounds.

During childhood and youth until about 17 I ignored quite a bit others. Now that I am 35 I feel like I have been in many traps that are described here.
I never felt I'd like to not interact with others, neither did I perceive me as being unworthy,
or if so then there was always my inside own telling me that I have quite extraordinary skills and that I could use them if they let me kind of thing.
I wanted to be like I am, and to a great extend did it.

Now that has come to sort of an end. I want to be able to control my problems. Especially those that came up now:
I feel quite alone, live in a foreign country with weird cultural aspects, do too many things at a time,
dropped into a deep black hole, ny social contacts have decreased really to lowest level ever.
I was in a relationship for 9 years and we had a family where I was part of and part of my ex-girlfriends social life.
Now that is gone. And I have to do all on my own, have only one friend.
I changed job on the university from one are to another.
Write my PHD thesis next to my job.
And my university wants to increase competition, running a business concept with temporal working contracts.

To put it to one point: I am really skrewed and scared.

What you need I think is to focus on one thing that is not boring.
And that is maybe stupid to others because they don't understand how one can operate in offside.
The things I like to struggle with are mostly very demanding and cross science kind of thing.
Nobody understands the potential behind that.

At university nobody recognizes the potentials of that kind of basic research anymore.
Everybody just does that what you can get money for.
And that's politics, thus full of stupidity and dishonesty

Quickly generating results and doing many things at a time.
This is against my own principles. And bad for aspies. I want to understand and combine things into something new that I feel nobody else is capable of,
because they are missing the will and the understanding why this could be important.
Want to stay away from that how everything is supposed to be, because that seriously limits creativity.

But then I have too many "projects" at a time and the heavy thinking related to processing the new state of having recognized yourself as aspie.

Science sucks (I hope only at the moment), because it appears to be much more a fashion show than it ever was before.
No time for many results, with quite many not anymore properly understanding the good old foundations that are behind it:
Just using something without exactly knowing too much about the basic things behind it.

To be high IQ aspie is a really bad combination: Late (self-)diagnosis. Being very different from other aspies
Being intelectually at the same level than high IQ NT or even above, but still too "stupid" to fit in.

I was seriously thinking about splitting off from my work and do my complete own stuff for example at home with some kind of whatever funding.
But I need also social contacts and some infrastructure and some kind of support.
Thus a stupid idea. But staying at a work that demands stupidity is not an option, either.

How to find this kind of suitable environment is quite a challenge for me. And even if I realize that I am wrong with my thoughts
it will take ages for me to get this into my brain, I am just too stubborn.

To put it to one sentence: Find a job that really challenges you and is "accepted by society" and appreciated.
(Learn to be a model, sell yourself, do something fancy that is fashionable)
And to develop skills that makes you recognize that you are actually accepted and appreciated, if it is so.
(if you are sort of you think you aren't but you actually are)

My IQ is something like 130 according to some test I made in the internet.
I don't remember was it above or below that number
Well yesterday I commented on some post where there was someone with IQ 150.

Do the emotional problems actually get worse or better when you have a higher IQ than say 5% of the people?
5% of 1% (fractions of aspies in this world) is quite a low number of which maybe 10% know who they are.
(Or even less because of the high IQ)

Just out of interest, I would like to see what is the IQ distribution on this planet here, just to get an idea about it...
How to do this such that there is a distribution that gets the reality is another question.

Quite many aspies appear smart to me

onks, just to clarify, as I'm not sure I understand fully, you are suggesting finding a job that challenges - challenges in what way exactly? Mentally, socially, other?

The IQ score of those on this site seem to still fall into a normal curve, but with a higher mean.

Link to IQ thread

I mean intellectually.

Mentally or socially challenging things are probably not amongst our strengths,
although socially challenging things can be also somebody's special interest, I guess.
Then that's different, because you use your intellect to analyze social situations.

And one thing we are probably also good at, is to be a mentor for other aspies.

From another thread:

Now we're getting somewhere! This is the type of stuff I'm looking for.

Nope, I dont understand the world better, I just understand much more how crazy it is.
I dont get it how people can feel comfort with non honest politicians for example
(Those that go on things that serve some fear, but if you look on the whole their arguments are known to society to be totally off).

I dont get why NTs are putting so much effort into formal things and even think that this makes things better

And then I am definitely gifted in not leaving out any possible trap. For a guy with a higher IQ I am incredibly stupid, because stubborn.
And then I am pretty autodidactic, drilling into nowhere. I do get though quite often really nice insights.

I have to repeat and repeat to be sure I was right

I wouldnt be too suprised if I would be even capable to saw off the tree I am sitting on

If that are the problems you get when you are higher IQ...
Hallelujah!
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