Intellectually Gifted 'Children', Join the Party!

True. There was sixth grade where they put us in a gym class time with special needs students- it didn't turn out well, let's just say that.

Back when I was in kindergarten, I scored well enough on the WISC-III to surpass all but one other child in the state, who was, bizarrely enough, in the same grade at my elementary school, although I don't recall ever having class with him. This and my very odd behaviour got me a fancy-dancy Independent Educational Profile at my next school, which had mixed results.

Of course, I still flunked out of high school and live like a shut-in. Don't get cocky, kids. Smart isn't superior. It doesn't mean that you're a nice person or that you have your crap together. Rest not on ye laurels, et cetera.

edited 12th Oct '16 6:31:16 PM by JHM

I'm actually stupid.

i'm pretty much the only sane man in my school.

Same. Even around my own friends, I feel like the Only Sane Man.

I don't mean to brag, but does an IQ of 126 count as "gifted"?

I stopped getting straight As after graduating from primary school though..

edited 10th Jan '17 8:55:47 PM by fdiaperhead

The gifted range is usually 130+ so you're pretty close.

Different tests have different standards though.

edited 12th Jan '17 2:44:18 PM by BlizzardeyeWonder

I'm considered "highly gifted," which is roughly considered an IQ of 148+, depending on who you're asking. I don't know what my number is exactly, but it's around there somewhere.

I just have to say I highly disagree with the fact that being smart makes you better than anyone who's less smart. I find the Surrounded by Idiots trope to be very egotistical and condescending. You're "gifted" because you were gifted. You were given a gift by pure, random chance. Other people, also by pure random chance, weren't as lucky. I didn't do anything to earn my IQ, so it doesn't make me better than anyone. If anything, I now owe the world something since I've been given a gift most don't have.

My mom was gifted, she had an IQ of 145. Unfortunately, she grew up in the Suharto era, where the acceleration program (Indonesia's answer to the gifted program, so basically you can skip a grade when your IQ exceeds 130) didn't exist yet.

Now the acceleration program's up and running in public schools only, and I don't have that high of an IQ. Well, shit.

edited 6th Mar '17 2:53:13 AM by fdiaperhead

I was considered gifted in terms of English. Of course, that's only meaningful in a country that doesn't speak English. XP

What exactly does IQ measure? Problem-solving skills? I've never taken an IQ test that didn't come from a sidebar ad in the early days of the internet.

Anyway, I used to be considered gifted and got into a bunch of advanced placement programs at school, but I willingly dropped out because I hated the workload. Didn't give me enough time to goof off and pursue personal interests.

x4 I wish the US had any sort of system for gifted kids. Instead it's just the "ignore you and let you suffer" approach

From what I gathered, it tests your ability to recognize and think in patterns. Granted I'm no expert but that's what I had to focus on when taking all the ones that were thrown in my face

edited 7th Mar '17 4:43:55 AM by Cailleach

I'm currently in a ap euro history class. seems a bit easier unless you haven't managed to finish your Cornell notes ( now a feel bad for not getting it done).

I should probably explain more about the patterns thing, and what's at least my theory for why test giftedness that way.

Patterns are so much of how we learn and reason. Going back to when you first started your education, having an eye for patterns would have helped you. When learning how to read, you had to recognize that every time you saw the symbols "T" or "t" it made a tuh sound. The first kid to be able to see the patterns for ever letter, and for special cases like "c" before different vowels, would be the first kid who learned how to read. And that follows you throughout life. Having that trait in spades can lead to amazing things. The ability to derive equations for patterns in nature, the ability to recognize patterns in human behavior and morality and shape that into a philosophy, and etc etc

i kinda had a similar experience. just the other day i managed figure out the products of certain compound reactions.

A little late to the party here, but y´all don´t seem to mind! So if I may ask how do you guys plan to take over the world and/or you´re respective locations? (I'm from way up North so I guess there's nothing TO rule :p)

(And no, boring the world to death by reading that one book from Middle School does NOT count.)

I knew how to open "child proof" gates before I was even in school.

If a 5-year old can open the gate, it's not really child-proof!

Also, in 2nd grade I was so good at spelling they had to test me again and again because I kept getting all the words right, and they had to give me 7th-grade level spelling words.

I'm also the type of kid who finishes their exam in half the time it takes most kids and then gets back A's and B's.

That's enough bragging about my intelligence. I usually hate bragging about my intelligence because I'm scared it makes me look like a "Oh, I know everything!!! I'm so smart, I'm better than everyone!" type of person, but I think this thread is the right place for it.

So I'm also going to share a few dumb things I've done: When I was little, I thought buffalo wings were from actual buffaloes, and I spelt "or" wrong in a spelling test in 1st grade (I spelt it as "ro" for some reason. XD)

"Also, in 2nd grade I was so good at spelling they had to test me again and again because I kept getting all the words right, and they had to give me 7th-grade level spelling words."

Are you me I had that too! Shame it isn't very useful for world domination... :smiling_imp:

According to my parents I was supposed to accomplish greats things.

Welp.

Hello.

(For the uninitiated, the very fact that I am responding to this thread is conclusive proof that I am gifted, or at least believe that I am. This is of course disregarding any possibilities that I am merely trying to pose as one in a nefarious scheme to con innocent tropers out of their hard-troped money, or that I am bored and just trying to start a conversation, or am an exchange student from Zimbabwe, just trying to order a, how you call it, "Bigg Makk". Ps. As only gifted students know, the proper pronunciation of the term is "jifted." And, yes, I want fries in that...

That “explanation” was pretty funny. Also, hello everyone.