The purpose, in my opinion, of speaking (or typing in this venue), is to communicate. Trying and failing to communicate repeatedly can become emotionally taxing and frustrating and eventually leads me to quit trying. Then, out of nowhere, someone responds in a way that spins my head around as I realize, "They heard me!" That's how your post struck me and I thank you very much for it.
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I think those of us who have high IQ's (and especially with the higher they get), the harder it is to relate to anybody and to understand how other people think and why they do things. This in turn leads to an almost desperate loneliness on top of an already agonizingly acute awareness of the world.
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My wife has saved me in this regard. Though her IQ itself is high normal, she scores off the charts in abstract thinking, so when I bring a radical or revolutionary thought to the table, she instantly grasps it.
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You've heard the saying that ignorance is bliss? Take the converse: awareness is agony. I believe there's correlation between a person's intelligence and susceptibility to depression etc.
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I agree with the correlation you've made between intelligence and depression, though I am less convinced of the 'awareness equals agony'. I am Buddhist; awareness is quite literally, my religion. I find kindred souls in my sangha and have found serenity in the darkness - until I step out and try to interact outside my tight little circle. I can function adequately socially; I've studied people enough to know that if I just insert enough references to <insert local sports team here>, the Kardashians and ISIS, I'll do fine.
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I don't think you're over-thinking; in fact, the rest of us are UNDER-thinking and I found your interpretation of the lying question to be fascinating.
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I'll admit, I got a little misty when I read this. Over or underthinking makes little difference to me - they're just opinion based labels - but if you found it fascinating then you heard me.
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Also to comment on your assertion that your thinking isn't normal, wouldn't it depend on how you defined normal? If you're comparing the way you're able to think with the abilities of the average person, and you consider average to be "normal", I suppose it would be abnormal. However, if you're considering normality in terms of gauging functionality (as in is your mind functioning correctly compared to itself and not to others), then you're normal. You're about to fall into the trap where one assumes that if one is different than others that there must be something wrong with them.
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You're right, of course, it does depend on how I define normal. I was trying to use a more colloquial definition of the word to communicate acknowledgment that most do not think the way that I do. I know that I am different but do not equate that with something being wrong.
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I'm probably not saying anything you don't already know or particularly novel, but hopefully it's helpful in some way. Good luck with getting the disability no matter what happens with the test. That's the important thing here of course.
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It helped a lot. Thank you so much.