I was always in the gifted classes in school. I'm assuming I took an IQ test, but I was never told the number. I barely ever studied - I once took an essay test on a book I'd never read and got a B. Giftedness has not translated into success for me either. Right now I can't even find a menial job.

I was in show choir, marching bad (taught myself the mellophone), concert band (taught myself the bassoon) and jazz band (taught myself the baritone sax). I was in the State Youth Symphony, but all that went to crap after a major depressive episode where I stopped caring, which was followed by a hypomanic episode where I ended up pregnant at 15.