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Old Jan 03, 2017, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Jensitive22 View Post
Tested 11th grade- 140. Higher the IQ, higher the expectations to excel and rise to your potential. Never confident enough in myself to pursue my "potential". Though I received honors in college, the awards and my diplomas sat in a drawer for years. My current husband found them and hung them up. He doesn't understand why I don't proudly display them.
Higher the IQ, the deeper the introspection and a broader awareness and understanding of the world around us. Grist for the melancholy temperaments.
So that's why I don't understand myself or "the" world around us!

And me thinking it was that I am, and the world around me is, constantly changing. But I'm just too shallow.

It's true I probably don't have melancholic depression (just the BP reactive melancholy), just the atypical one.
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