I think after about BP-II, intelligence goes beyond the understanding of "intelligent" people and tests (made by those people).

There is often at least one (I guess disorganised, much like me) schizophrenic in the waiting room and most there (and obviously the doctors) have no effing clue what they're talking about. Outlandish, foreign. They might be considered treatment resistant.

But I get what they're saying. I truly do. And it is very intelligent.

I needed to learn the words that doctors use because I was very goal-directed, determined to speak with them without them dismissing my every word as almost random and giving me higher doses of antipsychotics.

Most with SZ can be bothered less. *** them. Just give me pills.

Now I'm considered highly intelligent by my psychiatrist. That really wasn't the case in the beginning and not just because of mania/psychosis. Just learning a new language.

I'm rather narcissistic: I don't think I've ever been in a room where anyone was more intelligent than I. It's not just the rooms: I go to many full with PhDs, professors, Chomsky. But maybe that waiting room. Seriously.

Edit:
And maybe another exception is one of my cousins, whose schizophrenic, and an old professor of mine, whose a member of the Royal Academy.