Smart but dumb ?

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That's how I'd describe myself . I can do something like this-



but apart from money management, which is quite good, I'm crap when it comes to daily(practical) living tasks . Without the support I get from my stepdaughter I'd be 'up sh*t creek without a paddle' as her mum would've said .

That's pretty impressive. I understand what you mean. I think it's wonderful that people have different abilities. I've got a good memory but can barely find my way out of the supermarket.

People I know sometimes say I'm "smart" because of all the random facts I've managed to memorize, but I often feel the opposite. I don't have many actual skills and it takes a long time for me to properly learn + retain anything that doesn't relate to my special interests.

I am the epitome of “smart but dumb”—though I’m not Mensa smart, nor in the 99.9999th Percentile.

Not smart at all, I only retain information if I have a visual or experiential association, so poor if any retention from reading. I am streetwise though and I have fair emotional intelligence. Terrible sense of direction.

I am also in that "smart but dumb" category. Got into Mensa. But can't figure out how to cook lasagna.

But even Mensa only puts me in the top two percent.

you're...what? In the top "point zero zero zero one" of one percent?

That MUST put you up there with historic figures like Einstein, Newton, Da Vinci, Steven Hawking,Alan Turing, and like that.

I'd also describe myself as such.

Due to my learning differences, I often struggle with simple tasks that you would expect to be fairly self-explanatory at this point in my life. However, I am also relatively intelligent. I am good at coming up with solutions and can make up entire worlds in my mind, yet I can't read a clock if it has roman numerals on it.

Right now, I'm passing my classes with high grades at a University level, but I'm aware that there are tasks that the average eight year old could probably do better than me. I don't qualify for any kind of help; growing up I was often assumed to be lazy due to the fact that I did so well in other areas. If you were to graph my abilities you'd probably get a somewhat spiky profile.

I feel this way too. People may say I'm smart in school, but in my mind, I'm completely clueless at times.

had a feeling about firemonkeys I,Q. , Can do stuff i am interested in . Outside observations
have repeatedly told me am very intelligent , which mostly i just put off as people just want to be nice
Early on was fairly suspicious that it might be Good. But the other stuff in dealing wth people is obviously pretty poor , even to me . And if recovering from situations , Everthing goes out the window.....Avoidance behaviour on my part of some sitations can be obvious . Havng push through these things . Leaves me in certain burnout .

Yeah, I am smart but dumb for sure. Just look at my grades. I think from maybe 7th grade on the best I could hope for in any math course was a C. Then I got past trig into calculus and made straight A's.

I also love to write, and have published 16 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the past 6 years (four more since quarantine began, but those are still being reviewed)... yet I still can't spell to save my life. I am only just this year learning that "breadth" is spelled differently from "breadth", and that "discreet" is not spelled the same as "discrete".

We had spelling tests each year at public school . I'd score about 55/70 . I wasn't a terrible speller, but neither was I that good at it .

like firemonkey, i've scored @ gifted range on one test date, and borderline mentally ret*d on another test date. i don't believe i'm gifted because if i were i'd likely be wealthy and with proper mate. folks with brute force IQ can brute force think their way through life, they have a built-in "deep blue watson" in their craniums on their side. i've done lotsa dummmmmmm things in life, that made my sibs and folks scratch their heads in appalled wonderment. haven't done too many smart things and the ones that i have done i ascribe 99% to sheer dumb luck where opportunity and timing and ability happened to bump into one another and stick together.