I'm an Asperger, I'm used to it and having sometimes to explain.

I was never subjected to an IQ test because I grew up in "Darkest Africa" - the same country as did the father of that "stupid" (according to thick Evangelicals) fellow, Barrack Obama.

Many of the above apply to me, but not all, and I'm not near 140. So, am I banished?

I wonder how much of this counts if your brain has been injured.

The good news is there's a strong correlation between how smart people think they are and how stupid they actually are

British Psychological Society - Research Digest
By Emma Young

...for a complex reasoning task – “deductive reasoning” – for which there were no obviously intuitive answers, there was much less of a group difference.

Daws and Hampshire concluded: “These findings provide evidence in support of the hypothesis that the religiosity effect relates to conflict [between reasoning and intuition] as opposed to reasoning ability or intelligence more generally.”

If, as this work suggests, religious belief predisposes people to rely more heavily on intuition in decision-making – and the stronger their belief, the more pronounced the impact – how much of a difference does this make to actual achievement in the real world? At the moment, there’s no data on this. But in theory, perhaps cognitive training could allow religious people to maintain their beliefs without over-relying on intuition when it conflicts with logic in day to day decision-making.

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I am heterosexual but I like hanging with women better than men , my best friend is a woman. I have been told by some guys I have female eclectic tastes and that I act like a female at times, so I guess it might be right.

My IQ is only around 130, and, at times, I fidn it very frustrating to deal with less intelligent persons.

I may be above average, but my brain tends to not work fast. Howeer, my answers are usually better having taken my time thinking about them.

I hadn't seen research to support that more intelligent persons are LGBTQ. I am gay, but I just never put the two together as a correlation. I'll wait until see actaul data before repeatign this.

Yes, a lot fo politicians driv eme nuts.

It is true I have read a great deal more than mos tpeople, but I think tht is in part due to my partial blindness and inability to find work doe to my parital blindness, so I hve a lto of leisure time, where I "read" books (it is actauly listenign to audio books, preferably unabridged).

The frustratign thign fro me is that most peopel aregenerally lazy about thinking and usign their minds. Probably the thing I liek aobu tthis site most is that here peopel seem to actually be thinking

In spite of the title of this website I don't profess to be agnostic which I always believed to be a 'don't know'. I'm an anti-theist atheist and the idea, propagated by charlatans or idiots, that the universe and all its extraordinary vast contents was intelligently manufactured by an invisible creator floating around somewhere, as well as being an incredibly stupid insane idea, is a total impossibility.
[All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Islamic, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and to monopolise power and profit. Thomas Paine.]

I get that

I would contend that the IQ evaluation relied upon might be fooled by the individual's critical thinking talent. Also, critical thinking people are more likely to investigate an issue and not accept input as true without investigation. While I have been assessed as having an IQ higher than normal, I only pride myself in skepticism of presumed facts and a willingness to investigate input beyond the initial input.

I was told when in 8th grade I had an IQ of 143. When I was 38 I had a stroke, tested a few months later at just 110. HUGE difference, stuff that was formerly so easy was Not! Have worked my way back up to the 130's, much better?

And our handwriting, along with other stuff, suffers, since we're thinking steps further in advance of what our physical bodies can manage to keep up with.

I never felt I had a choice, but I did feel it tended to isolate me as I grew up.

Being on the right tail of the normal curve, I can say for me that #1, #2, #4, and your second #7 are true. #3 not so much, #5 sometimes, both #6s are sometimes true. Your second #6 is flawed as high IQ and mental illness are correlated but inferring a cause and effect is specious.

[scientificamerican.com]

I disagree with your first #7, LGBTQ is correlated with creativity, not intelligence. Many highly intelligent people aren't creative. I've been to enough Mensa meetings to know that.

I like being intelligent most of the time. It has helped me at school and often at work. It definitely limits my social relationships - see #1 and the second #7.

Most of these things apply to me. I took an IQ test in high school and scored 152. I was told 200 was as high as you could get. I assumed it was a linear scale and figured I was 76 percentile... not bad but nothing to get excited about. It wasn't until grad school that I learned that was well above the Mensa cut-off! Well... I guess it kept me humble!

Precisely so.

Here are couple of links about agnostics having a higher IQ than most.

Why Atheists Have Higher IQs [huffingtonpost.com]

Belief in God is associated with lower scores on IQ tests. [digest.bps.org.uk]

1, 2 & 3 are big issues with me, but I don't have the opportunity to hang with intellectual people. I have no friends, and I try to ignore the ill informed, the ignorant, and the religious nuts at work by burying myself in my Kindle books during breaks, and tuning them out (not easy). Many of them are own their phones too, but surfing YouTube or whatever, looking for distractions to avoid THINKING! njoy_life_2 mentioned handwriting. Mine SUCKS! I can't even read it! Not even my signature! So I print whereever I can. Not sure how that relates to the discussion, but I certainly related to her comment!

So... I put a comment on here... seems it's vanished...

Did I say something wrong?

Ignorance is bliss.