The NTs paradox on guaging the intelligence of non NTs

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I'm usually considered stupid/simple minded by NTs that don't know me very well. I used to half believe it myself. According to NTs, being adept at physics related fields requires high levels of intelligence. They even regularly use the expression "its not rocket science". They also associate natural computer abilities with smart people. This leads to a paradox. I'm stupid yet I excel in chemistry, physics and other scientific fields and have a profound innate proficiency for computers and various other advanced forms of technology. In my case, my particular abilities shove this paradox in their face because its by their very own criteria for high intelligence that they are forced to question their original assumption that I lack it. In the case of many schizophrenics, the NTs are incapable of even recognising their profound intelligence. I happen to have an innate proficiency for philosophy, thinking outside the box and have a good grasp of logic and how it confines the mind. I rarely encounter anyone that I can talk to about many of my more profound philosophical concepts but I've noticed that people with schizophrenia are more often than not way ahead of me in this area. They contemplate profound things which the logical system proposed by the consensus is incompatible with. I generalised NTs there because it appears that the default model instilled in ones mind by western society is where these forms of cognitive blindness originate. Many NTs have had personal experiences which have forced them to override a lot of the silly notions that they adopted as children because they didn't know any better. If NT means someone who is free of any abnormal mental condition then there is probably no such thing as an NT so I think it better describes the degree to which someone has adopted and retained these defacto beliefs instilled in them by western society which seems to be infecting the inhabitants of the far reaches of the globe. The average local of a relatively isolated tribe in the Colombian Amazonian rainforest is clearly not an NT by this definition. The society of which they are a part clearly does not instill the same model of reality in its citizens as does western society which is propagated through mainly through American media which you will see played on TVs in just about every country in the world.

LEARN TO IGNORE PEOPLE'S COMMENTS!! !! ! They sound judgemental but they are just nuances. Ignore them. I adore my husband. He is a PROFOUNDLY intelligent man but I call him stupid all the time because he REALLY is in everyday social situations. He's easily dupped. I have to watch every penny he spends. Before I got on his back for MANY, MANY things, he used to take hugh risks like helping out a hitchhiker, etc... he ended up getting cut and robbed. He made it though. The wound was superficial - just given as a method of control/threat. He's a true gift from God but I worry who will protect him when I die. He doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority#IQ

Human beings aren't very good at judging much of anything see here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Did anyone see idiocracy? The main character looked stupid to others which was paradoxical considering he wad a higher iq. It shows how people aren't capable of understanding different forms of thinking and are incredibly egocentric to think their way is correct.

Gauging is smelt wroong

Lots of NT's of average intelligence are secretly jealous of the mathematical/physics types.

That's the reason that I'm suspicious of NTs until I get to know them. I judge who would make a good friend based on whether or not that person thinks that I'm average or above in intelligence or not. If they think that I'm below average, than that person is not a friend of mine.